Day 15: Say what???

2nd week of school has started and thankfully no classes before 9am for me today. This weeks see's a whole slew of companies coming on campus on give their presentations, aimed mainly at the P4's but also very useful for the P1's to get to know these companies a little bit better. As I see it, I might as well understand as much as I can about prospective employers while I have the time/opportunity rather than wait till the last minute.

Last Friday was a pretty funny day by all accounts. For starters, it was technically a public holiday although we weren't given one. The rest of the island was in a holiday mood while I trudged to school for my 10.15am lecture. It did mean that the public transport was a lot less crowded though which I guess was the nice part. However, no shuttle bus from the MRT station. =(

Ended up having 3 lectures that day and by far the most entertaining was my finance lecture. Not because of the content itself (which is pretty technical and you really have to be a finance/math geek to get excited about it), but rather because the professor was full of quotable quotes that day. I guess that's what happens when are in charge of the last lecture of the week, you have to drop bombshells to keep people awake/interested.

(Trying to settle the class down before starting)
"Please settle down... I'm losing my voice. A professor without a voice is about as useful as a gigolo without stamina"


(Referring to our weekend plans)
"After Statistics, Accounting and Finance, I'm sure all you want to do now is get drunk"

(Who knows where he got this reference from?!?!?!)
"With leverage you have ups and downs... it's just like coke!"

O_O!!!

I'm not quite sure what he was on to help him get through the class but it certainly made our last lecture of the day a lot less painful and if that meant that more information was absorbed, then I guess he's done a good job.

Club activities are slowly beginning to kick off here. Looking forward to the various club activities I've signed up for although I'm sure I've signed up for way too many and at some point I'll have to rationalise my time among them. Already missed the first football session yesterday but my legs were crying out for mercy after the half-marathon in the morning.

Nominations for our section representatives are due today. Pretty important if you want to maintain a fun atmosphere within the section. Our stats professor has already got our champagne fun kick-started but now it's up to us to bring it to the next level. I've been hearing talk about "fines" for being late or having your cellphone go off during a lecture. That should definitely keep things interesting over the next couple of weeks. Elections are this week so we'll see!