NYCB got GOLD! The only band awarded gold for the day heh? Well done and congrats!!
It's SYF season now. You can see the amount of hard work and effort being put in by various performing arts groups. Those who got gold or even better, gold with honours, congrats people. This is what you guys deserve, after sweating all you've got for the past few months.
NYCB is a solid GOLD band.
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It's been quite disappointing lately. Seems like all the tests I sat for aren't looking good at all.
It's not like I didn't study. I did.
It's not like I didn't prepare. I did.
It's not like I don't know what's going on (despite sleeping and stoning away during lectures). I did.
It's not like I didn't know what is written on the tutorials. I did.
I really did all the above.
But I just could NOT do the numbers during test. And it's CHEM test. I'm supposed to be most confident in.
And it's ionic equilibria. I'm supposed to be very familiar with it.
I'm supposed to, but I just did NOT in reality.
It didn't matter even if I got alot of marks penalized. Numerically, the small numerator that denotes my performance for a subject doesn't bother me much. All I'll do after every paper is to examine where I went wrong and what I did not manage to evaluate. It's a learning process, a process whereby a child learn to not step into potholes after she fell right into one. You need to fall, before you know what to be avoided. It's just the way of life.
However reality doesn't permit learning through mistakes at all. All they want is an education system so perfect that students aren't allowed to make mistakes at all. You may argue otherwise for all you want, but I'll show you what I mean.
You'll be graded at everything you do. The grades are A,B,C,D,E,S and U. Seven grades, all dividing the cohort into seven different groups. Your marks are automatically converted into these grades, and you'll see for yourself what I mean by not allowed to make mistakes. Because a mark minused off will mean dropping a band below. Then, as an egg would, you'll be categorized into those bands and tossed away from the 'better grades' simply because you've got a few careless mistakes. Nobody cares if you know how to complete the tutorials, nobody cares if you are able to explain their doubts, nobody cares if you follow each and every lecture.
What everybody cares, is the alphabet you get. It says everything. Any explanation that follows will just be regarded as another futile attempt to free yourself from guilt. So, what follows next? Everybody tries their best not to make any mistake that results in them being classified as 'another grade of eggs'. And eventually, we don't know how to make mistakes anymore. We don't know how to face the mistakes we make, because we are trained to go all out to NOT commit them at all.
That's the education system today. Competition suddenly becomes so stiff, that any carelessness will be rewarded with merciless reprimands. We soon forget the thrill we often experience when we were still young - the thrill of recognizing your mistakes from the past and knowing you will never ever get it wrong again.
