Piles and Workload

I have many assignments on hand and all the deadlines are around September period, which means it’s about less than a month’s time. Gosh, am I worried. I have only started on one, which means I have about 6 more to begin to do.

It is quite yucky when everyone wants you to complete your research previously completed in 12 weeks to the current 6 weeks time frame. Expect the least unexpected. A VISIT TO THE PSYCHO CLINIC!!! No wonder this warning was issued when the assignments were given.

Singapore is churning university graduates out to the society as if it is a major “University Graduates” production factory with the labels “NUS”, “NTU” and “SMU”. If they do not have enough local supplies, they can always go overseas to attract the unpolished gems. The faster they can produce these university graduates, the more GNP the country hopes to achieve. If not, “send” overseas and get income tax anyway.

Many things in Singapore are commercialized, for example in the education system. I wonder how many teachers actually care for their students. I mean by going all out and teach them even if it means giving them one to one tuition classes at home on a Sunday afternoon. Come on, they are employees after all. How many of them are equipped with the knowledge and actually use them? Or are the schools that produce teachers trying to go through the motion and release as many “products” as possible, thinking that even if it is a defect, it will never be discovered anyway. Schools are comparing students’ results hoping to beat the other schools hands down. Thus able to attract as many students as possible because, students equal revenue. The schools are now operating like a business. Unfortunately, the customers, the students, most often are forced to purchase the products, such as Geography, History, Physics, Chemistry, Math, etc. by their parents and teachers. And how many of such subjects will be used later in life? I have studied Chemistry in my secondary school days and I have not seemed to be able to put a use to it ever since graduation.

Is there something wrong? For example, nowadays, graduates do customer service, either front desk (face to face) or via telephone. I am not putting down the job of a customer service. We need them. I just wonder which part of the university education is being used when they are handling enquiries and complains. What good is it to have a degree when you do not make use of it? (I wonder if knowing the Factor Theorem will help to explain about the insurance claims that the client wants to know.) Anyway, who cares about using the degree as long as I get a higher pay when I have that piece of paper. Probably, that is considered as a form of utilizing the qualification. Aha! Got it!!!

Whatever... Think positive! What I have written above is just to release my stress. I still love Singapore for its stability and because of all these university graduates, Singapore is having a booming economy. Cheers!!!