Anyway, College will reopen next week! I can't wait.. at least then I have a lot of things to do. I've already got my previous semester result and I honestly tried to restrain myself from posting anything about it since, well.. I'm not particularly proud of it. Nevertheless, I did do a posting on my previous previous result during Foundation so I guess it's only fair to write about this one too.
Now, where did I put that envelope.. Oh, here it is. Okay.. let's see.
FTV111: History of Screen Language - C (2.33)Now, that's not really impressive innit? That figures why my GPA is merely a mediocre 3.24, well below the previous semester's 3.50. Now, last semester I asked some people at the Management on wether they would add my degree grades to that from my Foundation. They said no since both are basically different courses. But according to my result slip my CGPA is 3.45. Am I missing something here or did they count my Foundation's result together with this one? I'm clueless.
JRN111: Intro to Print - B (3.33)
MCI111: Information Age - B (3.33)
MCI101: Research and Presentation 1 - B (3.33)
MPW2133: Malaysian Studies - A- (4.00)
Truth be told, I'm totally devastated by this result and though I'm quite disappointed at my result, I can't seem to pinpoint where my mistakes are. I knew I tried very hard and I have no problem with any lecturers that I know of. So why this?
Honestly, I do have doubt about FTV since the whole context of the course is subjective but I was really really aiming for an A for Journalism and Information Age. I love them both! I love them eventhough they both require me to write very very long reports. In fact, I am really sure I did a very good analytical essay for Information Age, I'm going to post it here later after this post. I spent nights reading through business report on that essay and I analyzed a huge pile of newspaper to see how real journalists write for my Journalism news articles. How could I deserve a B for all that hard work?
Well, I've posted queries to some of my lecturers concerning my result and what I should do to for remedial and one, my Journalism lecturer Mr. Razlan replied:
actly u r consdrd gud.. b man. hghest in clas is b+.. but to me u r a gud stdnt.. u shld take up jrnlsmWell, that's heartwarming.. Still, why wasn't I'm the one who got a B+? Well Hadi, I guess you can't always get what you want. C'est la vie. I guess this is what Degree is. I should stop living in my Foundation bubble.. Burst it. Pop.
So folks, thanks for listening. Give me a chance to shine and I'll blind the world. A week left till College reopens.. man, I'm really going to shine. Amin.
amin! good luck okay, and never stop trying =)
ReplyDeleteThanks Peach :)
ReplyDeleteKeep you chin high. What's done is done. No fun in crying over spoilt milk. Churn it and you might get lucky and get butter or cheese.
ReplyDeleteSit back and ponder for a while, what can be learned from last semester for lessons can also be learnt outside the class.
In my humble opinion getting good scores is like courting a lovely babe whom you fancy. You must get to know the person, understand what the person desires and providing the right kind of "sustenance" to fulfill these desires. Never assume you know what the babe wants and based on this assumption try to fulfill based on the assumption for you may be feeding the person with wrong "sustenance".
We often fall into the trap of measuring ourselves using our own measurement and attributes and come to the comforting conclusion of yeah, we've aced this one.
It would be good if we could regularly check and measure ourselves against what "the babe" wants.
The reason we stumble was for us to learn how not to fall but should we fall we must learn to pick ourselves up again and stand tall and walk forward.
The road ahead is still long and could be winding...
Thank you. Well, that being said, I have 5 more babes to court this semester.. Let's see what happen this time.
ReplyDeleteTalk about roads.. We often opt to use highways wherever we go these days. It's easy, it's straight, it's wide. We love it so much that we tend to forget the old roads which is the opposite of highways, difficult, winding and narrow.. though amidst all that, it offers a different vista quite unlike the ones we are used to see along highways. I guess we all should sometimes travel down this old road.. we might just learn something new.
that reminds me of a quote i saw at Border's bookstores which goes something like this: an old book is still new to those who haven't read them.