Things you should not attempt to do for your HT or ISM...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Yup learn from the absent-minded person who found out everything last minute.
What you should not attempt to do:
- Not go for the damn talk. You know that talk in some vague email in the middle of the sem saying that students who intend to do ISM/HT should attend? If you have some vague desire to do, you should go. I'm not kidding, you must learn how to do all the bureaucratic stuff that is important to our conservative school.
- Try to change your HT/ISM title 2 hours before it is due. Because I didn't go for the talk, I didn't know that a formal note is needed to inform the department, the honours coordinator and my supervisor about the change of my ISM title. Apparently when you hand the thing in, they will not only check against your name but the bogus title which you wrote in your contract at the beginning of the semester. So being me, I found out only the weekend before it was due, and naturally panicked.
- Not be consistent. This is serious stuff. Because there are no lessons, you tend to push it aside and everything gets pushed to the very last minute. A month or so before it was due, I started to do intensive research. And because of lack of resources, I basically got most of the stuff from my head. Considering the final thing constitutes 100% of the grade, this is no joke.
- Not see your supervisor often enough, which I'm glad I didn't do, but I didn't always prepare for our meeting sessions. I just had to see him to make me feel guilty about not doing any work and then hopefully I would start doing something.
- Not draft your paper. Even though I only did one draft for my supervisor, I felt that I could have done at least two, just to secure my final paper which is worth all of the 100%. Well, at least one is better than none.
- Not talk to your fellow working-on-ISM/HT people often. You should, to get all sorts of tips on like formats and binding and stuff, which I admit I didn't always do ha.
- Attempt to hand your thesis/ISM to your supervisor. You cannot do that. All papers must go to the general office for policing the time and date of your submission.
- Try to find out the format of the paper 2 days before it is due. This is very bad, it gets you into a frenzy trying to find at least one person who knows, and what more, pissing a higher authority with your no-knowledge.
- Force yourself to study without any rest after handing in the final paper. Because I crashed at 3am last night, I found myself waking up at 11.30am when my class was at 12nn, all because I was so tired and set my alarm to 10+pm instead of am. Hur hur.
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