Hi people...
I went to school for my first lesson for the semester..strategy and technology..Though I was given a brief intro of the course..I like it here..Tink its definitely better than NTU...Its a very good school I came too..Its a alot of real work I guess but everything is very organized...most probably because swedish people(called swedes) are very very organized people.. The professors gave everyone a comprehensive copy of the course information today..there's the intro to e course..e examinable components marks allocated...schedule of all e classes..contacts of all e tutors..aspects of all assignments n projects n so on... Its great...I love it here.. But its alot of work here..I started school only now and my exam is during march..just a short time for me to acquire all e knowledge...other than the lectures which u need to attend..there's 2 compulsory seminars which gives u marks n all e presentations during the seminars and also you need to hand in 2 papers after the seminars which is graded too.. and u gotta do a final project...but the most interesting thing is that there's gotta be an oral exam instead of a written one.. so cool.. the professors said that they change to an oral exam because there think that its more economical to do so..they say that its not worth it to spend a large proportion of the course budget for exam papers markers which do not add value to students...cool..hee..So interesting...and the oral exam is in groups of four...the examiner will give each people a chance to answer a comprehensive question...then after others answer..u are given the chance to elaborate, or give other views or critize or say whatever u want to say.... the whole exam will only take about an hour or so...cool ya.. and also..u get to choose the date of exam that best suits ur own schedule... there's about 4 or 5 dates for choice.. nice ya...
The school system here also depends alot on the internet..they have got a comprehensive university portal net...you do almost everything there.. but here you got to register for exams yourself on the JIBSnet..the deadline is 8 days b4 the exam..if u miss that...then even the dean can do nothing to help you..they had this policy of registering for exam yourself bcoz they say that in the past many students didnt turn up for the exam then lead to a waste of resources...coz here quite special..they need to spend money for booking of an exam hall and also for guards..which is e so called invigilators for the exam..wondered if they carried guns and will shoot u if u cheat...haha...
I think their library is great here too.. the website has alot of features.. u can access the search for a book in e library even at home..n if the book u want is cannot be found in e library but eslewhere..they can borrow from eslewhere for you..quite nice.. n the loan period here is 2 months...wah..so long..
And hor...here very kuku one...or rather they very environmentalist ah..they do not give u plastic or paper bags when u buy things at supermarket..they only provide the very lousy kinf...e one like u go NTUC buy fruits put one..e transparent kink but the quality is very much more lousy than it.. sometimes i quite scared that i carry groceries half way it will break.. and hor..u gotta pack your own stuff...the cashier at the supermarket is only in charge of scanning e items into the register and collecting money from you..thats all.. then here very cheat money one.. coz their coin denomination is only 50 cents n 1 dollar..vut some price their products like 9.90 or 7.80 then if u add together..it should be 17.70..but bcoz of the coin denomination...they always round up...so they collect 18 from you...next time i must buy items that adds up nicely to avoid this...haha..
Thats all for now...gotta go sleep le...got a 45 mins class tomolo..hee..swedish lesson.. see ya.. Ado!(Bye in swedish)