Referring to the above, I am mumbling about my Final exams being over, and now that I have absolutely nothing to do except sit back and rot till the new semester opens. Well, just to bore you with unimportant stuff like how I had numerous panic attacks from 10th November 2008 till 18th November 2008. You know, for the first time in my life, I kinda get to know what a panic attack feels like. For those lucky ones who have yet to know what it's like, it involves hyperventilating, and your heart beats so fast that you are so sure it's just going to stop beating, your mind fast-forwards to the worst-case scenario, in my case it was me being unable to answer the questions in the exam. For a spilt second there, you feel like you're being suffocated and that there is no way out...Until you finally calm your self down and tell your self that it's ALL GOING TO BE O.K.
Now that I'm done with my exams, I can sit back and re-live that entire week in my head, seeing what I could not then. Things appear waaaaaaaaay clearer now. To begin with, I have come to the conclusion that everyone has the potential of achieving 4.00 gpa, it just depends on how they manage their time. Which goes on to show that the most important and basic thing to succeed or at least for a student, to get through their exams, lies in their own ability to manage the time given too them. Each student is given equal amount of time to study and revise, so how is it that some manage to score while the others fail to even pass?? Most of you will tell me the obvious, the ones who score are "SMART". Well, allow me to open your eyes to the reality. First and foremost, EVERYONE is a smartass if you ask me, God made most of us equal. So what's the problem, those who score have the will and determination to study what has already been taught to them while the "NORMAL" ones, the ones who usually fail or hang on the "border line" of passing just refuse to devote themselves to education. I think what most students fail to realise is that learning is a self-teaching process. A lecturer /teacher can only give so much, in order to understand what the hell they're telling you, you first have to understand what they are saying and then teach yourself the samething again. That's one way to do stuff. Honestly, there are a million ways to study, but it all revolves around the same principle," Understanding". After understanding comes " Memorising" followed by "Reinforcing". I think most students these days already practice the first two. However, most of them forget the last one, Reinforcing. If a student fails to do so, I'm afraid that they will be unable to retain what they have understood and memorised for long-term. The first two are only effective for short-term memory.
Having said that I can conclude that learning something depends on the learner, not the tutor. I think it's time students realised that learning is their own responsibility. And to see if they have taken and executed their responsibilities well, we can always refer to how well they have done in their exams as I believe it is the most suitable parameter to measure this.
So now, as I relax and await my results to see and evaluate how well I have done my part in learning for this semester,I realise that for this semester, I gave it 80-90% instead of 100%. Therefore, I gear my self up for next semester where I'm planning on giving it 110%!
Cheers for now!
Lady Sha Sha
Well, with that done, I would like to go off and check out the food scene around Desa Setapak. Till next time my Darlings!
Well, with that done, I would like to go off and check out the food scene around Desa Setapak. Till next time my Darlings!