Module Woes

First week of school made me feel like a total noob. Already on the first day, I took the wrong shuttle bus. WHAT KIND OF A YEAR 3 LOSER takes the wrong shuttle bus?? And then I had this philo class which was… traumatising, to say the least. Philo classes are usually filled with geeks and the occasional vocal person that is quite easy to ignore (it comes with years of training). But in this class, practically everyone speaks up and the tutor is the sort that will laugh at you if you say something stupid! And you can’t hide at the back of the class because there are only about 20 students in it. I was planning to drop this module (I dropped his module last semester) but I decided that I have to live through this. Also, I spilt coffee on the person sitting next to me in my other philo lecture. How KENTZ CAN I BE RIGHT? All this on the first day seh.

And the thing about being a Year 3 student, I realised, is that you begin to know lesser people in school. All the familiar faces have already graduated, and you can’t differentiate the freshies from the Year 2 undergrads. To prove the point, I didn’t bump into anyone I know when I walked from the deck to the library please! How can I not bump into anyone?! I used to say hi to, at least on average, 3 people along the AS1 highway every time last academic year!

Okay uhm.

These are the modules I got:

PH2219 Critical Theory and Hermeneutics (doing with Yu Jin and Chris Siew Hua)
PH2302 Chinese Philosophical Traditions I (doing with Chris Siew Hua)
PH3230 Normative Ethical Theory (the traumatising class, not doing with anyone, lonelyboy86)
PH3210 Philosophy of Language
GEK1025 Reading Visual Images (doing with 2 HOT GERS Charmaine Tan Si Min and Wei Fen Lee)

I realised later that I have got tutorial clashes and I have to drop either Chinese Philosophical Traditions, Philo of Language, or The Traumatising Class. But I really want to do Chinese philosophy, so I shall risk dropping one of the level 3000 mods. This means I have to do three level 3000 modules next semester, and I’m quite worried about that.

PH3210 has a lecturer I don’t particularly enjoy (though I am being biased, he was forced to teach LOGIC last semester, how interesting can that get?) and I am quite afraid of the 50% essay and 50% final exam distribution, and also because if I do PH3210, I would not be able to go for the same tutorial class as Charms for GEK1025, so I’m dropping this. I shall brave The Traumatising Class. Ah Charms, what am I getting myself into.

The Traumatising Class is filled with loudmouths and almost everyone there twitches like the BK auntie I swear! And there are tests every week and yeah the instructor can be a bitch. And I hate to speak up in class, especially a philo class where the tendency for you to say something stupid is like 89% and you know when I say something stupid I go on a roll so… not good.

So yeah what I’m appealing for is:

PH2218 Business Ethics

which is filled with business and econs students annnddd I dunno why but there seem to be a lot of really old people in this class. Graduate students? Someone tell me! How to fight with them like this! In any case I hope my appeal gets through. If not I really don’t know what to do because there really aren’t any other modules that I can take (yes the philo department suckkkksss this semester. And most of my favourite lecturers are gone/on a break/etc.).

Wish me luck.