You know it's assignment week when NO ONE returns your sms. My classmates must all be busy that their phone either went to the toilet or it's on silent mode.
It's not that I'm not busy doing mine, just that I needed to know if we were having lectures tomorrow.
When we log into our uni portal, there is this banner that says : RESEARCH PROPOSAL MONTH. It's good to know we are all 'together' on the semester - not lagging or anything, which off-campus students are usually subject to. We tend to be the forgotten ones. However, this Uni, being part of the Group of 8, is so on-top-of-things that there is no room for off-campus students like us to find a decent excuse for non-performance except that here, all of us work full-time, which is what our Prof found out at weekend school. He was not surprised, but he needed to find out why we probably didn't do as well as his on-campus students and required some sort of validation.
It's good to be on track, but it's stressful too.
Our schedules are as being on-campus - and it's always a mad rush to get as near publishing standard for our papers as possible. Aside from our first semester teething problem, I think we may finally have found the handle for the situation - read more.
We also have an online discussion board, where we HAVE TO participate - otherwise, we'll be penalised somehow. Kids here get homework, we get cases to comment on for each week of school - our homework.
So, although we are all off-campus, we still feel very on-campus - thanks to the internet.
I think all uni's should have this system so that students here will also feel like they actually belong to that faculty - and will strive to keep up and be more diligent in our readings.
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