Day 55: Exams around the corner

Believe it or not, exams are just 2 days away! Gotta say that the number of people "camping" in the library over the past week has increased exponentially. Sometimes there aren't even any free desks at the library. Guess that "last minute panic" is a great motivator.

A strange phenomenon when it comes to studying: I end up being motivated to do ANYTHING else but study (like update this blog for example). If you think that P1 is crazy intense, you ain't seen anything yet. We will have 1 less week (7 in total including exams) in P2 compared to P1 and we will have 2 more classes (7 in total). It's going to be INSANE. O_O

The other main thing that has been dominating the water cooler chat on campus is the outcome of the campus exchange bidding. We're all given 200 points to bid for your place either in SGP or FBL for P3-5. Your home campus (the place where you started) is your default campus should you choose not to bid or if you don't successfully make the cut off. It all depends on demand and supply for places and in general people want to be in SGP during P3 (when it's winter in FBL) and in FBL when it's P5 (when it's summer there). Due to the introduction of 50 extra points for people who are keen to commit to 3 periods in a row to the other campus than the one you started at, the number of points needed for SGP in P3 (175) and FBL in P5 (149) shot through the roof this year. Needless to say, many people were really frustrated/disappointed this past week when their desired campus exchanges didn't work out because they hadn't bid enough. Personally, I was hoping to get the option of going to FBL in P5 but severely underestimated the number of points needed. Oh well. Hopefully this will be a useful data point for future generations.

Alrighty. Enough procrastination. I've really gotta try to figure out Accounting.

As we learnt in Organisational Behaviour: Take deep breaths through your nose and regulate your breathing and think happy thoughts (okay, maybe we didn't learn about the "happy thoughts" part). 4 more days till the end of period party. =)