Monday, October 6, 2008

Intensive Project Work

The school has officially lost it. A whole week dedicated to PW? I kid you not. Apparently, the school does not either. In a way, I am glad that the school makes an effort in setting aside time for us to work on our project, because otherwise, we will not be motivated to initiate the meetings on our own, honestly.
Personally, my group is progressive. Nothing tangible has been produced yet except for drafts after drafts of Written Report. I am trying my best to utilize the full 6 hours allocated to us, each day, as productively as possible. Today, the school invited 3 guest speakers to somehow 'inspire' us to love speaking in public. (Very) Much to my dismay, they were not as impressive as I thought they would be. I know many other people that could and would have done a much better job. One after another, they went up giving absolutely uninspiring and unengaging speeches. Should we not learn only from the best? I told you the school has officially lost it.
The school even went out of its way to hire external vendors to coach us in public speaking. So today, we also had a 3-hour session with a public speaking instructor to help us with the much dreaded Oral Presentation. It was actually quite fun and I appreciated the instructor being as humble and modest as he was.
I hope everyone else is having a 'blast' with their PW. I pray we get an 'A' for all this torture we have been put through. It was such a misconception that after the Promotional Examinations, we will be free. Nothing holding us back. Freedom. No homework but just fun. Instead another form of stress arises- my email is messed up, and the organizations I emailed to are not responding.
PW be gone! Still there? Damn.

Tell me I am not wasting my time.

Know this: Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.