Well, I just can’t help not being nasty.
It’s my fourth week in Nanyang Technological University and life there isn’t as pink as I thought it would be.
I’m not afraid of work, piles of work. I’m not afraid that studies are difficult.
It’s just that I don’t think I’m getting what I’m paying for.
I get lecturers who rip off powerpoint slides straight out of the text book. Lecturers who explain things in a fashion worst than the textbook. Lecturers who don’t know their course content well, give erronous and misleading examples, give poor examples…
That makes me depress.
Kinda miss my previous teachers who will come with nothing prepared, whip out transparencies and pens and scribbled on them, talking as they go.
That was nice. At least we see how your teachers think. That’s important, isn’t it?
It’s the thinking process that counts. Nowadays, who cares about content when everything is a ‘google’ away?
At least my tutors were good. That’s a saving grace. Well… so much for a world class university.
August 22nd, 2005 at 12:06 am
no, no… i don’t agree with you…. i don’t understand how you can have poor lecturers when you have good tutors…
anyways, i think nanyang is still new comparatively… it’s stumbling past but having caught up within a couple of decades has proven its place as a world class university. you can’t say that just because it’s not the way lessons you think are being held.
August 22nd, 2005 at 7:56 am
There’s a difference between lecturers and tutors? I’m VERY lucky that my tutor aren’t my lecturer.
Sometimes I really wish that the lectures were being recorded and peer-evaluated, then at least you’ll get what I meant.
August 25th, 2005 at 11:22 am
well, too much you’re not in the engineering stream…. some of my lectures are recorded:)…
August 25th, 2005 at 7:29 pm
Ah well… let just say that some of my lecturers will have it easy for now…