So lets try to recount them one at a time!
I've accepted the role of Chairperson for the NTU Open House 2011 Committee in the 20th Students' Union. It's kinda crazy considering that I'm a final year student. Honest to God, just two years ago in freshmen year, I wouldn't have imagined myself as part of the Students' Union. Heck, while I was in NP, I didn't even join the NP Ambassadors (their equivalent of the Students' Union), mainly because I was so into my studies. Graduating as top of the cohort came at a heavy price on my work-life balance. And I didn't want that for my undergraduate studies.
In my two years in NBS thus far, I've gotten the opportunity to do so many things that I'll be ever thankful for. I got to go on a short exchange in London for slightly less than two months, I got the opportunity to intern in Citibank under a wonderful supervisor, I've got involved in the Students' Union and got to meet and work with so many wonderful people. Life is lovely.
So on my committee, I had the opportunity to form my own people and surround myself with the people I know I will enjoy working with. It's a great feeling because I missed running events so much. Reminds me of the days while I was in NP running events together with wonderful friends like merser and qiong ping.
Speaking of events, another recently concluded event I was involved in was the NTU Ministerial Forum 2010, under the 19th NTUSU. Met many good friends (and poached a few over to my NTU OH 2011 committee as well. Haha!) and worked on an event related to an area of interest. Politics in Singapore.
And speaking of politics, one module I took this semester is the Government and Politics of Singapore. It's a very insightful module and it's kinda interesting to make comparisons to how political science modules are taught in NTU and LSE. What I find intriguing is how such a topic under the "Political Science" domain in LSE, while in Singapore, it's under the domain of "Public Administration".
Though I learnt quite a lot in this module, I didn't feel very challenged by the module in terms of content. Honestly speaking, anyone who already has a keen interest in Singapore politics and regularly read the papers would find this module a breeze because it doesn't teach you something you don't already know. Which is why I feel a tad bit disappointed because I was hoping the module would be conducted much like how LSE does it: Get in the theoretical framework, bring in the empirical evidence and teach from there. Instead, many of our lectures turned out to be history lessons and summary of newspaper articles. Anyone who have read Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography would ACE this module. Seriously.
Speaking of studies, I think I'd better get started with my revision for a quiz.
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