JYSim for jobless-yokel Sim

Remember there was a time when you were still small and those big brothers and sisters up there always projected an image of ‘aiyah, university ah? Easy lah. Whole day play, no need to study etc’? That’s what motivated us to study harder in high school as we know, we anticipated life would be a bed of roses for us once we enter university. However, the truth only dawns on me on this very last week before my finals. There’s one busiest occupation on Earth even doctors and prime ministers have to admit they’re not as busy as them - students.

Here’s the logic - teachers teach, and students listen, and learn. However, not being the person taking mid-terms and finals, teachers literally do not have to memorise a whole list of names for different versions of embryo. They can save the trouble of remembering how our muscles contract (something related to tropomyosin, tropokinin and calcium ions blah-blah) and practise writing them out in comprehensive sentences. All they do is set questions, mark the papers, and conduct surveys asking why students do badly in his / her exams. Ok, besides that he still needs to prepare slides for his lessons, but since the textbook is over 1250 pages, there is actually no time for students to rise his head to see how beautiful his slides are, so basically even if he projected empty slides nobody will know. We’re all so busy burying ourselves in the tonnes of information, coloured diagrams and endless concepts.

Besides studying, you have a dozen of reports to submit, each with it’s own never-seem-enough dateline. Worse, it’s the teachers who set the target for the length of the essay, not you (if we’re allowed that we can save forests of trees every year - paper conservation). Reading a 5000-word essay is certainly 5000 times easier than composing one. Besides, reading allows you the fun of circling and crossing out wrong words. Before you proceed to the next 5000-word essay, you have another privilige of giving the grades (or marks) for that crap you read just now. Who doesn’t want a job like that?

The coming of the finals means another round of the tormenting squashing-everything-into-your-brain game. Ok, some teachers might tell you ’study smart, see only the key points, those long-long elaboration can omit lah’, but it’s never as easy as he / she said. Firstly, to understand a large concept, you gotta understand the minute operating mechanisms first. To fully understand that, you have to have basic knowledge of what an endocrine cell is and what are the differences between a simple endocrine pathway, simple neurohormone pathway and simple neuroendocrine pathway. The worse nightmare happens when your teacher insist ‘adrenal medulla’ is pronounced as ‘adrenal meh-dA-lla’ instead of ‘adrenal meh-du-lla’. Nevertheless, there is always fun in poking her mistakes as in ‘nutri-sien’ (nutrition).

After going through my last exams I understood fully that your emotional factor plays an extremely important role in regulating your exam scores. Thus for this exam I will try to forget the fact that I’m going home in less than 2 week’s time and focus 100% on my question paper. I will not hesitate again to raise my hand and ask for another 5 sheets of writing paper simply because the invigilator looks at me as though I’m trying to rob all the school’s paper.

Please again forgive me for my delays in blogging. I hope you liked this short one.

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