PPP First Week

My Lecturer says I need to blog about my experience in the Polytechnic Preparatory Program (PPP) of Nanyang Polytechnic. Well, then I will comply and starting posting about this, I doubt I will have time to change the stupid template on this homework thing.

As a programmer I consider the Orientation week as week Zero, so last week is week one to me. Monday was this "Experience the new web" module thingie about web 2.0 which this blog is homework for. Interesting subject but boring lecture, had to read wikipedia while the lecturer was lecturing to stay awake. In my opinion, I think the lecture was boring because he was trying to hard to keep the lesson simple and easy to understand; resorting to repeating and rephrasing multiple times. Technical stuff are more interesting and fun, I signed up for this program to learn programming earlier in the first place anyway.

Tuesday is this "Drawing the visible world" module. I can only describe the lecturer of the module as a minimalistic and efficient person, telling us to go off and draw in the morning; only to meet up at 2pm. At least its easy going but the amount of work to do is like mountain high, plus I am no artist. The most I got for art in Secondary School was D7 and I used my rulers, protractors and compasses to do so. Well, I just have to hand in something to pass the thing.

Wednesday was holiday, no modules. Perhaps I might do a rant this Wednesday, I was hoping to do rants and rants for this project but I have to talk about my "experience" in PPP.

Thursday was a module on "Communication Skills", it was a pretty enjoyable experience. We had a social interaction game of sorts and listened to a tolerable lecture. However, I did not really like the fact that the room numbers were changed from what was given on the timetable. The "Entrepreneurship" Lecture after lunch also had the room number changed to the hall next door. The lecture for the Entrepreneurship module was head shaking and gravity amplifying, if you get what I mean.

Friday is the tutorial for the Entrepreneurship module, there wasn't much activity and it was said to be the most activity we will experience in the entire program. Plus, we were told that we have to do this "fantastic" research project.

The program is decent and at the least more enjoyable than Secondary School lessons. However, I am extremely disturb by the fact that the lecturers were told that we were allowed to CHOOSE our modules for the program which is totally not true and returns 0% match. Its like buying a DVD/CD Rewinding machine.

Its short because I do not like not to be able to post rants. Ranting is more fun than a boring "online dairy".