Mid-Sem Blues

Mid-sem again, that's when things start to get crazy. The mid-term break didn't help at all! Considering it was soooo short, I hardly had any rest! Oh but one fun thing happened though, and that was a trip to Kukup with the WAT gang. That was quite a blast, for me personally. It was all cool because I got Lester, Xinyan, SweeLye and Siewling with me fishing while the rest were playing mahjong at the apartment. But this trip took place during the first weekend of the break, and I had nothing to look forward to the rest of the week.

Ok, why are things now crazy. I've got like, 5 projects to do, one of which is the horrendous Design II project. Thank goodness my group's consists of understanding people who gave me the task I wanted: HEN. I think that is the lesser of the evils that require understanding of the reactions. It's really messy business to be dealing with rates and rate constants and catalyst and those shit. The smarter people have taken the challenge of handling those stuff, so I thank them, with all my heart.

Then there are EG and HR projects...not too difficult for me I guess, cause it's mainly just writing, and I'm totally fine with that. EG's about ethics and stuff, so it's pretty intuitive. Unless you have been living on Mars for the past few decades of your life, then you should be able to distinguish between right and wrong. That is also given that you are sane and in touch with social norms. Now HR is an interesting module. It talks about interpersonal relationships, which inevitably entails talking about the development of oneself. It's really interesting to study the process and factors that affect who you are and how they form. But what really brought me the message that I don't belong in Chem Eng is when I kinda like this module, and others just totally hate it and think it's rubbish. Yes, it's one of those 'You know you don't belong when...'

Oh there's Malay speech/ skit presentation too. Just had a short vocab test and a composition/ picture conversation test. Did fairly ok for the short vocab test, but not as well as I would've liked to. Not too sure about the compo test though. Think it might turn out to be quite a disaster man...My group and I have yet to write a script for our group presentation. It has to be 15min long (5min each person), but I think after we 'errr' and 'emmm' it would have already taken up 10. Writing the script is a problem, rehearsals are another problem.

Oh then there's the polymer engr presentation slides that's to be handed up on 20th Mar. That one is kinda ok, not too much left to be done. But the module itself is quite disgusting, not as fun as I thought it would be. Misled...by my own instincts...

Finally, I think finally, comes theatre studies. Oh man! In 2 weeks we are suppose to have this 2 person performance in front of the whole class. But its a small audience, 14 students only. Still, forgetting the words will be quite embarrassing. We also have to be FULLY COSTUMED! Although it's a contemporary setting, there still lies the problem of dressing like your character. This means that rehearsals are required. More time dedicated to acting...

Received an email from Speedwing to attend the orientation. Getting really excited about going back to the States again, though this time with a group of people who I am not familiar with. I was acquainted with a few of them, but it won't be the same like 2 years ago where I made plans with good friends. This time there's a mix of anxiety and excitement, and frankly speaking, it doesn't feel good. If only there's a way to shift the proportion more towards the excitement and leave the anxiety behind. I can actually give the orientation a miss since I did a refresher course online. But I decided I'd go and take a look at the Six Flags crowd, and hopefully it will turn more of that anxiety into excitement. I'm really keeping my fingers crossed.