I have officially graduated on 9th August 2009 – Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) Psychology.
I have posted some photos in my Facebook as requested. So just check it out.
Everyone was taking photo crazily over here and there. I only remember I was all sweat under the hot sun in the hot weather and I felt tired.
I would say it was not a good convocation. Let see whether I can have another better convocation in the future. Haha!
Congratulation to all who graduated in this season of graduation 
This is a story about a passionate lecturer, a passionate tutor, and their students.
He is a lecturer who has many ideas to share with his students. He came out with the idea of debates (on topics related to the syllabus) and exhibition (for the students’ assignment). He is well-prepared before he entered the class. He has all the information. He gave his students lecture notes, extra notes, show video clips related to the syllabus, created a blog to post even more information for his students.
She is a tutor who is so care about her students. If her students have any problems, she would be there to help them. No matter what the problem is, she will try her best to help. She teaches her students as like teaching her children. She will make sure her students understand and learn something in her class. She planned to show her students a movie related to the syllabus (interesting way of learning) and she even planned to take their students for a visit to kindergarten (learn in real setting).
Their students are not supportive. Complaints on the debates, complaints on the exhibition, complaints on the video clips, complaints on the movies, complaints on the kindergarten visit, complaint on everything! They even complaint to the management board. Why not deal with the lecturer or the tutor face-to-face instead of going to the management board?
The students think that all those activities are problematic, wasting their time, increase their workload do not help at all. In fact, all those activities are for the students own good. The purpose of having those activities is to let the students able to learn more and be more interactive.
The students started to complaint since the semester started. Here are the results of complaining: debates are off, movie screening is off, kindergarten visit is off and holding back many activities for the exhibition. The students seemed to be very happy with the outcome because it decreases their workload.
The lecturer and tutor keep changing their plans to tolerate and work out with their students. The lecturer and tutor tried so hard to find win-win solutions for everything but what they get in return? Their students not appreciate what they did to them, keep complaining, keep blaming, and keep making them mad and hurt.
My comments……
I think the students are not mature enough. Why keep complaining? Those activities do no harm! Why can’t the students tolerate with the lecturer and the tutor? I may nag a bit of why the lecturer and tutor give us so many things to do. I nagged to release stress. I just nag to myself and some of my friends. I will not complaint to the lecturer, the tutor or the management board. Because I know it is the responsibility of a student to complete the tasks given by the lecturer or tutor. I think the tasks were interesting and fun! In one way or another, it improves the interaction among students and between students and the lecturer and the tutor.
I can imagine how the lecturer and the tutor feel. I can imagine how much they feel hurt, stress and fed up. They came out with ideas, the students ban everything. They came out with suggestions, the students not support them. They came out with plans, the students complaint on them. What they did are for the sake of their students. Until now, the lecturer and the tutor still tolerate with their students. The lecturer and the tutor tolerate with their students because they are open to suggestions. They wanted to be democratic instead of autocratic. With this kind of students, maybe they should stand still with everything, stay firm with their decisions.
Another four presentations done for this semester! I am glad that I did well on them and received good comments from evaluators! I felt so happy! All the hard works paid.
Introduction to Political Science presentation on March 13, 2008
My topic was Human Rights. It was an average presentation from me and Zu. I felt happy because in the end of the presentation, the evaluator asked for a soft copy of my PowerPoint slides of presentation for his own record, which he didn’t ask other groups to do so.
Abnormal Psychology presentation on March 13, 2008
My topic was Dissociative Identity Disorder. It was a more than average presentation from me, Nai Ma, Bread Face, Meaty, and Gan. I felt happy because the evaluator was happy to see that our presentation contained some video clips. The purpose of inserting video clips in our PowerPoint slides was to have a more interesting way on presenting on the topic instead of just present on psychology terms, so that our audience can easily understand our topic.
Child Development video clip presentation on March 22, 2008
My topic was Conservation. My group members including Nai Ma, Zu and Meaty. A very special thanks to Wan Sia, Chris and Mark for making it a successful one. We were the casts and crews for the video clip. I felt happy because the evaluator said that our video clip was very good because we were able to put in all the facts with clear explanation, the flow was smooth and most importantly it was funny. I received compliments from my classmates too ^_^
Organizational Psychology presentation on March 24, 2008
It was to present on a company that we created for our assignment – The Knot. My group members including Nai Ma, Zu and Meaty. We did a website for our company for the presentation because we were not allowed to use PowerPoint for the presentation. I felt happy because the evaluator said she was impressed with the website that we made and asked for a soft copy of our works for her own record. I received compliments from my classmates too ^_^
I have 2 more presentations to go. Hope that I will get good comments from the evaluators too. I will work hard for them too! ^_^
~~Thank you all for making the presentations a successful one!~~
I have done my Counselling Methods and Techniques II presentation today. The first group for my tutorial group to present. My first presentation out of six presentations for this semester. It was a group presentation with me, Bread Face, Nai Ma, and Meaty. The presentation was to give a seminar on teen pregnancy prevention.
“Very impressive!”, the feedback from our evaluator, Ms. Annie. I was so happy when I heard that. I never expect to receive such a good comment from Ms. Annie because she is kind of hard to please in oral presentations. All the hard works paid.
Not all of my previous presentations were not good and I was not happy about them. It is the matter of receiving excellent feedback from the evaluators. I have been in university for more than 2 years and I have done many presentations. This was the second time I felt very happy for my presentation because of receiving excellent comment from the evaluator.
The first time was my Sociology presentation and the evaluator was Ms. Charanjit. She was not an easy going person. “It was the best presentation”, that was the feedback I received from her. At that time, my group got the first topic (means the first group to present in my tutorial group) and the last tutorial group to present (there were 5 tutorial groups). So it means that 5 groups present on the same topic and my group was the last group to present on the topic. Because we (me and my group) were the last group to present, and the previous 4 groups didn’t present well (lack of information), the evaluator has high expectation on us and we were so stressful. In the end, all the hard works paid again. The evaluator very satisfied with our presentation and our ability to answers all the questions from her and members of the floor during questions and answers session. I was so happy! Same like this time!
I have 5 more presentations to go. Hope that I will get good comments from the evaluator for all the 5 presentations too. I will work hard for them too ^_^
Another hypothetical question from Ms. K last Thursday. The question was about imagining what will you do if you find out that your partner is cheating on you. Here is the scenario:
You and your boyfriend/girlfriend have been together for a year. The relationship between you and your boyfriend/girlfriend is stable now. One day, you went to your boyfriend/girlfriend’s house and saw a book on his/her table. You took the book and read it. As you were reading, you found out that the book was your boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s diary! You accidentally read it and accidentally found out that your boyfriend/girlfriend has a crush in your best friend for the past six months!
Your boyfriend/girlfriend explained to you that although he/she has a crush in your best friend, he/she never confesses to her/him. Your best friend didn’t know about it at all. He/she only went out with her/him twice and did nothing. Just like simple meetings with friends. After all, he/she said that he/she is still in love with you. He/she said that he/she will stop the feeling of love towards your best friend and hope that he/she can still be together with you.
What will you do? Break up with him/her or continue to be together with him/her? Why?
Almost all of my classmates choose to break up with her/his partner. They thought that it was unacceptable. He/she should not be forgiven. Well, I was the minority. I choose to continue to be together with him. Why? He didn’t confess and date my best friend. So I can still forgive him. He admitted his mistake, promised to stop the feeling of love towards my best friend to try to save our relationship. So I think I may give him a second chance. If he never learns from the mistake, he will never have another chance – I will break up with him.
What about you? What will you do? Break up with him/her or continue to be together with him/her?
