After twiddling my fingers (and toes) in London for the past 10 days, it's finally time for me to officially become a student! Indulged in my FIRST packet of instant noodles - Myojo Singapore Sambal Chicken Ramen - nice, hot and spicy!
Ok, took a while to get ready because must make sure I look nice when they take my picture at enrolment mah. Got to school early for enrolment and thank goodness I did, because it was a long queue for loads of admin.
1st, wait in lecture theatre. Then, queue to go into a room where they check to ensure they have your records. 3rd, queue again, to key in slowly all the details on your enrolment form - London address, family background, etc. This one took the longest time and was in the smallest room possible. It got pretty stuffy. Last but not least, queue again to take photo for student ID, and get a whole list of usernames and passwords (ALL different) for library, internet login, library login, etc. Not sure how efficient it is and how effective - but why the **** do you need different logins and different passwords for EVERYTHING?!?!
Just enough time after my enrolment to take my time and stroll back across Waterloo Bridge to get to the Waterloo campus from the Strand campus for my MA programme induction.
Ok, a decent number of people taking MA Education - mainly in English teaching. But to my astonishment... there are a TOTAL of FOUR, yes, 4!, people taking my MA ICT in Education course. Wah... super stressed lor! Discussion and tutorial sure die one!
My fellow coursemates are all gals, 2 from Cyprus and 1 from Taiwan. The one from Taiwan is also an ex-teacher, I think. The senior lecturer also very stressed, he hasn't got the reading lists ready and we were bugging him for it. My coursemates were rather stunned to hear that we only have TWO, yes, 2!, face-to-face tutorial sessions and the rest will be carried out via online discussions.
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