NUS Commencement Admin: Job Reflections
It lasted a mere 3 weeks, but it was my first paid job (less NS) in over 3 years.
Category: Success
My ORD Speech
Next week, my indirect understudy will be graduating from two years of NS! I hardly enjoyed my stint as a clerk, especially the final months leading to my own ORD. Yet these final few months also yielded a friend.
Degrees of Honour: First Class or Third?
I have been working part-time for my school’s Commencement ceremony. The work is mundane – more on that another day – but the access to individual transcripts made me wonder about the differing trajectories, and also think about the journey I’m a year into. Here are 5 discoveries: You can...
Lessons in Lecturing
What happens in a lecture hall? What else, but lecturers lecturing to the lectured? Not always, for that will be quite an indictment on the quality of teaching. But that’s for another day. I’m more interested in talking about the little things that subtly shape our experiences in those chambers...
Sociology vs Political Science: Why I Picked The Former
“I always thought you were going to do Political Science.” So it seemed, to many around me. (It must have been my acute interest in the 2008 US presidential elections.) It’s clear by now that I’m opting for Sociology. Yet the truth is, Political Science had never once been my...
After-Effects of NS (for an FASS student)
I view my life in 6-month increments. 1st half, 2nd half. I find it a useful medium-term outlook, to make plans and work on them. Maybe it’s the conditioning of a dozen years of school. Perhaps it speaks to the larger constraints of working society. Nonetheless, I find it functional...
