Back to the institution...

August 2010 - December 2010... Imagine a life out of college... well this applies if you are a college student...

Spending 4 months without waking up early in the morning for class, without rushing to the classroom, without chasing the bus because you were 5 minutes late... without writing long assignments, without listening to lecturers talking bout their experience and their grandmother stories...

Though I have to say, I kind of miss college...

But i'm officially back into this placed called the Taylor's University Institution of Higher Education (trying to make it sound more fancy)... I am a sophomore studying or shall I say going through the college experience in the American Degree Program, majoring in International Relations...

With that said, being back in college is just... different... Not shock that I experience some culture shock after the long 4 months break...

Now, I have to rush to college, chase the bus (which i already did in my first week), swipe a ridiculously huge amount of $$$ for my tuition fee (which in this case is paid by both my dad & mom... Thanks dad&mom), going through a hassle on the college registration system and other jazz...

It is also the a huge change when you shift to the new 'Lakeside Campus'! *with grand music background* Yea... the kind of famous Taylor's Lakeside Campus... To most, it is a campus that every student would dream to be in and to some, just a way to waste all the money and increase of fees... but to the public, it is the 21st century University Campus... a luxury... a prestigous campus... Wonder why Taylor's fees shoot up in the last 1 year? Well the answer is where I am sitting down on a kind of expensive chair, typing this out on an apple keyboard, looking at a 27inch Mac Screen with HD quality display and all this in a Mac Lab, in a 4 level high modern library...

Why am I complaining? Not really though, I am amazed by the facilities provided by this campus... I am convinced by the services of this campus, shocked by the technology provided, wowed by the fact that its HUGE campus to start with, slapped by the amazing architecture designs, facinated by the chains of restaurants and shops that are here, impressed by the quality of the lecturers and all other services... It is everything i think a student in a private university deserves... (well definitely there are some flaws into it)

But just asking this question, is this suppose to be the things about colleges this days? To equip itself with everything with a label 'luxury' or 'branded' on it? To have starbucks and baskin robbins as your food chains... to have super luxurious furnitures... To be the best university in terms of making the most $$$ out of students...

It is a stupid question to ask if you ask me... I would be laughed at for even bringing this up... Of coarse it is, isn't it todays world all about that... If you don't have the biggest wallet, how would you want to compete to be no.1 in every industry... The education industry is no exception... The concept of having money spend on improving teaching methods, improving quality of tutors, and most importantly students are now secondary objectives for most universities... and would not shock me if it falls down the list... But hey, who am I to say... I am one of those who are the contributors to these phenomenon anyways...

But nevertheless, say hello to college... Now since I am back, i realized how much i miss my life as a student...

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
-- Anatole France