Ok I conclude this semester's exams to be the lousiest ever. My report-writing times were tainted with intrusions from FYP. And not only did I have a pathetically short amount of time to study, I was also hopelessly distracted while trying to acquaint myself with the topics. Thanks to a recently added service in my school library, I find myself borrowing out VCDs and DVDs from my school library at least twice a week for FREE. The shows I have watched in the past 3 weeks include

Ah. A fitting sweet and tragic conclusion (hopefully) to my times at NYP. It's a vicious cycle. I don't study, I do badly for my papers, I feel like crap, I watch shows to make myself feel better, I don't study. It has just occurred to me that if my family has a genetic predisposition to Schizophrenia, my onset will be yesterday.

How does NUS/NTU/SMU/SIM allocate marks during exams? In my school, they allocate one mark per minute, regardless of whether your questions include MCQs. So if it's a two hour written paper, it's just 120 marks of pure torture for students like me who (1) haven't been writing very much BECAUSE I have been typing studiously at the computer and (2) tend to press my pen AND the 1st joint of my little finger very hard into the paper as I write. It was quite ironic that I was writing about implementing an ergonomics programme for a company of webpage engineers, becuase I swear my flexor digitorium, my palmar interossei and hand intrinsics were threatening to spasm 90 minutes into the paper due to repetitive strain. And I think my right hand has spreaded the news of its abuse via the central nervous systems to my other hand, because my left hand is starting to feel quite sluggish suddenly.

15 hours to (hopefully) final paper, 84 hours to FYP conference, 87 hours to freedom, 132 hours to final clinical attachment.