Seminar Presentation AAU280

Hello peopleee

finally ended part 1 of my Voice production AAU280 - Seminar presentation.
the script was fine, the slides were fine but the voice wasn't. Too much nerves overwhelms me and all even though rehearsals and practices went all well, I stuttered real lot when I presented.
the worse part is majority of the class did really well and most people are from courses like WKW etc. mega sigh. but oh wells, I still got 70% left and nxt week will be presentation on prose and poetry D: Wayang time...z

anw below is my script for my presentation today. it kinda depicts what I really felt.

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Recently, our facebook newsfeed has always been flooded with articles shared by our friends from thoughtcataloge or websites like life buzz. These articles are mostly titled ‘things you should stop doing in your 20s’ , ‘people you meet in a university lecture’, ’10 things you should start doing’ and so on. Its not usual to see all these articles being highly popular as afterall humans are curious creatures and its especially heartening to gain an insight from someone else or to realize you are not the only on facing those difficulties. I am currently a year one student from bioengineering. As semester two is coming to an end, I want to share with you all the diffulties I faced in university and things I learnt. Hopefully it brings some sort of relive to those who are facing the same difficulty.

1.      First and foremost, you will miss your family. This is especially so for those who are currently staying in halls. Most of us only goes back on weekends which reduces our time spent at home by nearly 70% and not to say sometimes when we have hall activities during weekend, we don’t even have the time to travel home. However even for those who did not, you also realize that you are spending a lot of time in school, be it participating in clubs, for studies or project. On top of all these, our school location at the far end of the MRT green line makes your travelling time takes up a significant portion of your day. Hence sometimes by the time you reached home, your family will all be asleep.

We need to bear in mind that while you all are missing your families, the feeling works both way. Hence its important that we find sometime every other day and drop a call to your family members and show your concern.

 

2.      You gain a lot of freedom suddenly. Again for those who are staying in hall, there will no longer have someone to nag at you for sleeping late, no one to take care of your meals nor laundry. You go to supper at unearthly hour and join in ‘heart-to-heart’ talks that lasted all the way till morning. In addition, I think its quite applicable to nearly everyone that we have the freedom to attend lessons or not. Especially for those engineering course, our lectures are all recorded and hence we always have the mindset that it doesn’t really matters if we miss a few lectures.

With that, its essential that we have the discipline to take care of our own well being and independent on the things you used to relied on your mother. In the case we miss lesson, we need to catch up on the online recorded lectures immediately. Else, they will accumulate and by the time final comes; the only thing we can say to ourselves is gg. In addition, we need to learnt how to priorities our activities and balance our studies with our social life.

 

3.      There will be some point in your university life that you feel that life is unfair. As competition for hall staying is high, there is a system called the rec list. Theoretically, those who contributed the most to the hall will get rec back. However, in reality, the rec list is highly dependent on your skills and ability or even sometimes your relationship with the hall committee members, instead of your contribution. In terms of studies, you noticed that you are putting in way more efforts than your fellow course mates yet the results doesn’t seems to match up with the efforts you put in.

Yes, life is unfair, but that’s how the society works. Evolution has taught us survival of the fittest. Hence many a times though we feel like giving up, we should instead hang on and opt for self-improvement. We should learn from our mistakes and not dwell on why life is unfair.

 

4.      You meet a lot of people, You made a lot of friends. But you also realize who your real friends are. The university is huge and its not difficult to meet people. You may have participated in a lot of camps before semester started, and get to know a lot of people. However, as you face difficulties transiting from junior colleges or poly to university, you noticed who the ones by your side are when you need help. Someone once told me, there are 3 kinds of people you need to remember in your life. First are those who helped you when you are facing difficulty, Second are those who left when you needed help and lastly, those who put you in your difficult state.

Hence it makes me treasure even more those friends whom I made and stayed.

 

In conclusion, as I am still only a freshie in NTU. There are still a lot of things I cannot fathom, alots of things I am still trying to cope with. A year in university has taught me a lot and I really look forward to learning more as I spend more years in NTU.

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oh well, life goes on. Bye guys!