And the setbacks just keeping on pressurizing me. Oh man, I can't imagine my econs will ever join in the ranks of "in serious trouble" modules. The third module that I fared way below average.

Either the people in sch are too smart that they're pushing up the difficulty of examinations or I'm simply not well prepared for uni life yet.

After reading through this article on "Lament of the Median Student" on ST March 28, I'm beginning to wonder if the former is a more likely cause.

Sometimes this bell curve concept only serve to segregate the students even more.

Another variation of the Crisis at Sea scenario. psychologists & sociologists sure like to find out people's moral reaction in time of crisis.

If a ship is going to sink in the middle of the ocean, there is only 1 lifeboat that can only save 5 person, who will you save?

(pls rank your choice from 1-10, 1 being the one you will most likely save and 10 being least likely - extremely important!)

1) Alice: handicapped, jobless, 22.
2) Ellen: airforce pilot, SAF scholar, 30.
3) Charles: wife-beater, strong, loudmouth.
4) Doreen: wife of Charles, sickly.
5) Greg: history of drug abuse, just divorced.
6) Francis: retiree, savouring present life.
7) Harriet: potential cap 5.0 undergraduate,20.
8) Iris: mother of 2, former canoeist.
9) Billy: army recruit, timid and skinny.
10) Johnny: medical doctor, handsome, religious.

pick your choices and give reason for your choice. Have fun choosing.

(ps. this time round you are not involved in the sinking ship, you just happen to be able to choose who to live and who not to)

After meeting up with the mixedrice for steamboat on Good Friday, it's time to study again.

I'm struck with another blow when my new media mid term performed less than my expectations. Considering that the paper wasn't very difficult, I can only blame overconfidence and carelessness for messing everything up.

This is the second time my result performed lower than the average mean. arghh... what is happening??

Maybe I don't really have a lot of free time. Instead of procrastinating over whether to play or study, I ought to come to a decision and settle for studying, especially when I saw my disappointing results again.

This time round, it's psychology that's pulling my grades now. I can't afford to screw up my major modules again.

After spending time doing my sociology mid test, I found out how shallow my scope of understanding of everything I have to learn. And it is no joking matter, considering the stiff competition and the bell curve approach the university uses.

It's study, study and study again.

Economics paper is so weird, the department actually gives 1.5hrs to do 30 MCQ questions, and the paper looks easy on the surface. It's either the questions are too tricky that's why the time given is so long or the examiners are just way too nice.

I shall not care about that for now, time to prepare for the sociology paper coming up next.

These days instead of studying for my econs and sociology to prepare for the mid terms on friday, I ended up spending my time trying to solve the rubix cube.

After playing around for a week, I still can't get it right. And I absolutely refused to read the online solutions (it defeats the entire purpose) I shall solve it ultimately.

Spent the remaining of my time reading Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, so that I can fulfil the 1 book per month 2008 resolution. The book is fantastic and i'm totally engrossed in it.

50 more pages and I'm done.

I didn't know economics apply in such cases too. Here's a funny example from my lecture.

The Prisoners' Dilemma

The Story
Bonnie and Clyde were caught and charged for a crime.
The police take them into separate rooms, where each prisoner must decide to either to confess or not to confess without knowing what the other prisoner will do.

Rules
The police tell each prisoner that they have collected enough evidence to send both to prison for 3 years. (i.e if both do not confess, the prosecution will be based on this evidence)

If only one prisoner confesses and testifies against the other, that prisoner will get only 1 year and the other will get 8 years.

If both confess, each will get 5 years.

What should they do in this case? To confess or not to confess?

Ahhh... The two mid-term exams are over and done with. All I need to do now is to finish my two mid-term papers this friday and hurray, off for a holiday.

Haha. I don't really have the time to go for holidays though, just spending some time at my grandma's house to relax. The best thing is there's no computers or internet there, guess I'll cope with it somehow. People nowadays are spending too much time on their computers, it's time to get back with the real reality. Too much radiation from these technological stuff kills off lots of brain neurons.

I'll glad take this opportunity and get back with nature, while reading the book from Dalai Lama. That's how life should be.

Lol, I'm already dreaming. It's time to work hard and enjoy the break that comes after that.

Still mugging for my new media and psy mid terms. Seems that the primacy and recency effect is so true. After all that reading, I can barely remember anything at all.

I better stick to some self-referencing/spacing strategies for studying.

Hope everything ends well tomorrow. I need a break from school.