the smu-difference is no different

it IS the midterm BREAK. of course, we should've known by now what that means isn't a sunny holiday in koh samui or a budget-breaking skip along the streets of hong kong (why does being broke suddenly sound enticing?). it still means school work, deadlines, tests and project meetings. which brings me to bitterly bitch about the structure of our courses nowadays in smu. yes, it used to be different; project work instead of lecture-tutorial style of teaching, more interaction between students and professors and all that fancy mancy terms to describe hold-you-by-the-throat timetables. but now, it is all that and more. i am appalled by the lightly weighted 5% project work which doesn't, unfortunately, translate to lightly weighted workload. and modules that are filled with these components (i mean, professors DO have to make the entire course worth 100% afterall). the reason i have had sleepless nights from week 1-7 of my final school term is so i can have a well-deserved BREAK, for crying out loud. but it is still back to school on a monday morning, miserably murmuring under my breath about how tragic it is to be back while everyone else is actually BREAK-ing.

not.

everyone's there. doing the same 5% crap as i am (ok, maybe theirs is 20%?).there is no point. haven't we all been whining about our education system since we were 8?

what "difference" does smu make?