UQ Life

The weather having been getting warmer and warmer, I feel spring is just around the corner.  For me, the lifestyle was dramatically changed during last two months.  I might say ' Out of the frying pan into the fire'.

About two months ago, I finished the programme at ICTE and then started the undergraduate course at UQ.  I've heard from friends of mine that studying at UQ is like living in a hell but at that time I didn't take any notice of what they said so much.  But it is true.

I have a lot of pre-reading materials and one course requires me to answer mini quizs every week with writing a pretty short eassy(250-300wrds).  Most of the lectures are similar to Kansai Uni's but what is total different is that almost all lectures have a tutorial after taking the lecture, which is new sensation for me because Kansai Uni doen't introduce that sort of system.  In a tutorial, all students are required to get involved with in-class discussion or group works.  These excercises are really practical to deepen the understanding of the lectures.  In a class, the courses I took are for international students so that we have a different nationality(I don't go far as to say that we have as many nationalities as ICTE).  We've got Indian, Indonesian, Filipino, Franch, German, USA, UK, Scandinavian, a few Australian and so forth.  Of course, their English proficiency was extremely higher than I'd expected even though some of them aren't native English speaker.  Until a last few weeks, I couldn't contribute the discussion because they speak English so fast, but gradually I got used to the tutorials and said my opinion a little.

From last week to this week, I had a big report which covers 40% of the total assessment, which I've already submitted and this Saturday I have a mid-term exam.  So I spent and will do a busy time......