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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Computing is not my cup of tea!!

I was dying for my C++ course.. Well, I really doubt if I can get a C++ in this course, cos I just feel like an idiot!

About two and half years ago, DADA was complaining that the gals in his computing class always asked idiotic questions. I still remembered I said: Haha, luckily I do not have to touch computing at all (cos at that time, I was quite sure I wont be doing engineering). But I never expected that I still have to do computing cos it is required for Stats major-- as explained by the Stats department head "further stats is not for human brain to work on"...

I thought it was like something that if you work hard, you can get it after sometime.. But, after two weeks, I realized that my brain was not trained that way.. The professor treated us like genius, in fact, most of the guys are, but not the 3 gals in the class... Now I am like the stupid gals who always ask idiotic questions as DADA mentioned before... And the funniest thing was that last Wed during lecture, I heard two guys after me talking about us-- the pathetic 3 TM..

Basically the guys were curious why we are so hardworking cos we copied every singleline of code that the professor typed, "it's just the basic of the basic wat".. Yea.. our basic is 0 mah... I was quite pissed, but when I talked to Nicole (who completed the C++ course last semester), she was like "Yea.. guys are like that.. Disgusting but you have to give them the credit"

Then I realized one thing that when I try to avoid something, esp some academic problems, it will come to you in one form or another.. When I was in China, I was sick of memorizing all the ancient text for Chinese, but when I went to Dunman High, I had Chinese Literature which was a more disgusting than just memorizing the ancient text alone-- the so called explainations which we all have to memorize were mostly illogical "the green water is greener than the blue sky".. Then the humanity courses in Dunman High: in JC, there was GP and when I thot I do not have to write GO style essay anymore after my A'Levels, then UM requires all LSA student to take English Writing...

anyway, since I have no choice, Ms Wang said "persevere"

Muggerish mood

1 Comments:

At 1:06 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

不要灰心..C++是这样的,很难,很辛苦(如果你觉得你的脑袋不适合学PROGRAMMING的话)..不光是你的大学,,NUS是一样的...完全一样的TOUGH...

LECTURER都是那么讲课的,,尽力学就好了...

 

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