Popping in to say hi!

Oh wow, it's Orientation already! It's crazy how quickly this has come. It feels like Exposure Camp was only last week or something. Anyway. It's going to be interesting to meet more freshies. I met a few craaaazy ones at the first camp... I'm also keeping an eye out for how the lipdub video is going to turn out. I'll try to write up something decent soon.

Stay tuned!

The Essential Freshmen's Guide: Titles in Tembusu

In light of the new academic year ahead that brings the promise and hope of freshies, I present you the essential guide to Tembusu jargon. Hopefully, this may help to relieve some of the confusion that many freshies will understandably face, especially in this crazy world of acronyms. In this post, I will bring you down the main chain of command so you'll know who's who and who not to piss off.

I really like Tembusu, but

I have wanted to do this post for a very, very long while now, but it's taken me all this time to piece my thoughts and feelings together coherently (much less eloquently).

Let me start by saying I have honestly enjoyed my first year here in Tembusu; I like the academic program so far, and the profs are great. Most people I've met are friendly and enthusiastic about doing things, and I  guess that's the point when things start to derail for me.

Sprouting from all this enthusiasm has been this great wave of student initiatives in Tembusu College. Just last semester we've seen so many things going on, and that's just the problem: there are too many things going on. I've talked to some friends who are actually quite pleased that there is a variety of events to cater to different interests. While I don't disagree that having a range of options gives Tembusu a lot more dimension, I find that the intended scale of these events is increasingly disproportionate to the range that students want to provide and attend. Let me try to elaborate how.