The "World Class" University, NUS
The "World Class" University, NUS(National University of Singapore) has done it yet again! In terms of wasting their students' time, effort and creating unneccessary stress amongst the student body. Yesterday was registration for tutorial balloting. It was supposed to commence at 0900hr, end at 1700hr, afterwhich results be announced at 2100hr. Guess what?! The server was down right from 0900hr till 2200hr. So 1st they extended the time to 1900hr while the server was still down, following that was an extension to 0600hr this morning, no improvements from the server either, and finally extended to 0900hr this morning with the server back from its OFF day at around 2200hr last night!
Check this out: www.petitiononline.com/nus
Interesting. I signed just for the fun of it, not that its gonna work anyway!
I think NUS School of Computing is the last place anyone wants to enroll in to pursuit his degree in computing. With tonnes of IT technicians,Computing and networking staffs, Computing lecturers with PhDs around campus, and they cannot solve this server problem caused by high bandwidth usage? It took more than 12hr for them to figure it out.So much so for a world class university. This is not the 1st time the system had failed us, during Modules bidding weeks ago, similarily the server crashed due to a sudden influx of users during the last 2hr of bidding, but at least the problem was solved in 2hrs and bidding was of course extended for another 2hr. Imagine the kind of really redundant and unneccessary stress generated when bidding is ending and you can't log in to place your bids.
So balloting results are out today, I've got 9 tutorials to attend this semester, 7 of which requires balloting, 1 of which i was not allocated a tutorial group. So what now? There is no choice but to ballot again this round. But if you are asking me why I've got so many Tutorials, again, there is not much of a choice also. I am taking 6 modules this semester. Not because I am on accerlerated learning, not that I'm striving to get on Deans' list, and not that I've nothing better to do, its just so because its so simple, I've got no choice. Actually there were choices to begin with, but the fact that I took up Japanese language with 3 tutorials weekly and was allocated an English Mod because from the way I write, I think you understand why, with 2 tutorials weekly, all other choices diminished.
Over and above all the unpleasant happenings, life is still great! Psychology, Economics and SG Society intrigue my interest alot. I still trying to learn my Japanese which is rather challenging, I can't even write and comprehend English properly and now I'm into Japanese! Great! And of course not forgetting my all "interesting" malay studies lecturer, yesterday while doing my sociology readings, I found out that this malay studies lecturer is quite a well known Sociologist in SG because his name actually appeared on my Socio readings! Lolz!
Alright, shall be going to do my readings now, gotta go to school later for a 2hr English Tutorial. Life is GREAT! I are the BEST!
Check this out: www.petitiononline.com/nus
Interesting. I signed just for the fun of it, not that its gonna work anyway!
I think NUS School of Computing is the last place anyone wants to enroll in to pursuit his degree in computing. With tonnes of IT technicians,Computing and networking staffs, Computing lecturers with PhDs around campus, and they cannot solve this server problem caused by high bandwidth usage? It took more than 12hr for them to figure it out.So much so for a world class university. This is not the 1st time the system had failed us, during Modules bidding weeks ago, similarily the server crashed due to a sudden influx of users during the last 2hr of bidding, but at least the problem was solved in 2hrs and bidding was of course extended for another 2hr. Imagine the kind of really redundant and unneccessary stress generated when bidding is ending and you can't log in to place your bids.
So balloting results are out today, I've got 9 tutorials to attend this semester, 7 of which requires balloting, 1 of which i was not allocated a tutorial group. So what now? There is no choice but to ballot again this round. But if you are asking me why I've got so many Tutorials, again, there is not much of a choice also. I am taking 6 modules this semester. Not because I am on accerlerated learning, not that I'm striving to get on Deans' list, and not that I've nothing better to do, its just so because its so simple, I've got no choice. Actually there were choices to begin with, but the fact that I took up Japanese language with 3 tutorials weekly and was allocated an English Mod because from the way I write, I think you understand why, with 2 tutorials weekly, all other choices diminished.
Over and above all the unpleasant happenings, life is still great! Psychology, Economics and SG Society intrigue my interest alot. I still trying to learn my Japanese which is rather challenging, I can't even write and comprehend English properly and now I'm into Japanese! Great! And of course not forgetting my all "interesting" malay studies lecturer, yesterday while doing my sociology readings, I found out that this malay studies lecturer is quite a well known Sociologist in SG because his name actually appeared on my Socio readings! Lolz!
Alright, shall be going to do my readings now, gotta go to school later for a 2hr English Tutorial. Life is GREAT! I are the BEST!
posted by The Custodian at 1:31 PM
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