Urgh. Two days into law school, and i've begun to drown in this unstoppable whirlpool of self-improvement that's been going on at the campus. Getting forced under, actually. Some people are starting the read their notes TWICE. Before AND after lectures. And everyone's trying to do regular work and go the extra mile in preparing for tutorials and lectures.
That's something that i thought hardly anyone would do; i had kinda hoped before going into law school that i'd be able to get ahead by just doing half of what everyone else is already doing now. Of course, it's rather impossible at the moment...and i think that it's mostly due to a few extremely kiasu and overachieving students who decided to read up more than HALF the term's syllabus BEFORE lessons had even started. And those few people are working harder than the rest, even now.
But most importantly, those few people LET IT BE KNOWN TO EVERYONE ELSE that they were working so hard. And now, everyone else's desperately trying to play catch-up with those who're playing catch-up with those who're still trying to chase the kiasu kids...lol i suppose we're all just kiasu at heart. And right now, it seems so critical for all of us to be kiasu...back in JC, if you had students rushing ahead of the rest of the pack, it was perfectly fine; let's all get As together! Or rather, why don't you go on ahead, i can always catch up later, when the grades actually COUNT for something.
But this time, end-of-term exams count, and if someone moves up from 2nd lower honours to 2nd upper honours, it'll mean that someone from 2nd upper would have to drop back to 2nd lower, and maybe one less person would get to go on an overseas exchange...and i don't really know the effect that it has on employment (i hear lots of differing views), but for now, it seems safer to just assume that 2nd lower honours is the pits (lol although i know it certainly isn't; i know successful lawyers with 2nd lower honours...i'm just being kiasu and ambitious - again).
Argh anyway, besides the whole studying craze, i've also been noticing more and more guys going running or training (or at least planning to) and drinking their little protein shakes too like WHAT THE HELL. What on EARTH is EXERCISE anyway??? LOL and today i tasted a protein shake for the first time when i took a sip from a senior's bottle. All the guys are just starting to psyche every other guy up. No, it's more like they're making the other guys anxious. And in no time, every guy will be going to the gym in their free time and getting fit, for sure. Well, except those who've given up or who're too busy studying, of course. :|
And let's be honest here: hardly any of the guys are actually training for personal fitness!!! For most of them, it's all for vanity's sake!!! So frustrating sia...besides a race for the Dean's List, is there now going to be a race to woo all the cute girls and hot chicks?? OMFG so i guess an extremely shy/hands-off/bitchy/not-too-romantic/freethinker guy like me is probably going to still be single at the end of university life???
Hmm...seems to be the case huh. Well, i'd rather brace myself for that, instead of studying ten hours a day, training for another two hours a day, taking two hours a day for travel and food and chatting with girls for another two hours a day. And sleeping for eight hours a day at the end of it. Oh, and weekends are purely for sneaky studying and training and chatting with girls ONLINE. Crap, i'm so not going to do that. It's not like we're living in a Dating Sim game or whatever, for crying out loud.
Well, it's getting late, so i'm going off now. Otherwise, i'll REALLY fall behind in my studies. Oh but i was only joking about the girls bit. Just trying to inject some humour into my blog posts.
...Okay i was only HALF-joking. Might as well say it now before people start calling me a liar.
