what i’m learning

Since most will want to wonder (and eventually ask) what the heck I’m learning for my first year in engineering, I shall, try to elaborate it to you as simply as possible. By doing this, I think I will gain some idea of what exactly I have been learning for the past two weeks.

There are altogether 5 course subjects concerning electrical engineering, and 2 electives, and one for IELTS (Ugh).

1. Programming

So far the most interesting of them all. Because you can actually use the computer (i.e. internet) during classes and type type type without really listening to what being said. Been to two classes so far, and ah, doing this is actually fun. In the words of the lecturer “If you want to be good at C, you’d have to play with it“. Giving commands here is so much better than using Flash, and HTML codes. I shall have fun.

2. Introduction to Electronics

Blegh, I hate this one. It’s all about those diodes and atoms and power such and such. We’ve only gotten to Semiconductors so far but already, it’s so… boring. The reasons for this is perhaps the lack of proper structure of learning; depending on printed slide shows is boring as fuck. Without a book, we are left powerless. I should by one… soon.

Of course, there ‘s the lecturer, but she is.. well, a bit imposing, presses her lips at the end of every sentence, and will speak with a most outspoken body language. An orator, perhaps, but she is one of those who will not accept the ideas of other people at an instant, and will try to uh, mark her territory, if that’s a accurate description, playing her duty with complete compliance, and will not accept anything outside her parameter. Something like that. An ESTJ. Put simply, I don’t like her.

3. Circuit Theory

This is well… fairly interesting but a bit frustrating. It’s basically a more in depth stuff of what you learn about circuits (series and parallel) and the laws and calculations surrounding them. So it’s a physics thing. It’s frustrating because there’s labwork and I don’t as fuck know how to use a digital analogue trainer (thingy for the bread board where you put all the resistors and LEDs to be controlled with), and the lecturer sure ain’t gonna explain to us how to use ’em stuff. And you’d think setting up a parallel circuit is easy. It sure ain’t, practically.

4. Workshop for Engineering Technology

It’s Kemahiran Hidup in a pretty name. Count the colour codes of resistors, memorize the safety regulations of the lab, etc etc. Boring. Ugh, I never scored 48/60 and above for Kemahiran Hidup during those three years in secondary school…. But well, you get to go inside a lab… so it’s manageable. And the lecturer keeps saying “Your handwriting reveals your personality. Make it bigger”. Dude, I sure ain’t gonna change my handwriting. You think I’d want to please you. No way la labu.

5. Engineering Mathematics

The classes are boring. It’s relearning maths over and over again. Most of them are covered during my foundation. Yawn. The lecturer is female and takes 20 minutes to set up the projector. Yawn. *listens to mp3 and draws trees outside*

6. Pengajian Malaysia

Sejarah in disguise. It’s awful. The only upside of being here is to watch people other than your own classmates, it being held in a theater room with about 50 people (rather than 24 familiar faces). The teacher has a degree in Bahasa Melayu, and keeps saying “Rentetan itu, kita boleh mendapati bahawa…“. But I love history. I just don’t like learning ’em inside a class. Maybe I’m too selective of what kind of history I want to read. I dunno.

7. Feqah

Never had this one before. But it better be good.

8. IELTS

Meh…. the teacher’s presumably of German birth, judging from her quite British but not quite English accent, and her ability to speak German fluently (without an ugly -cht sound) and well… her face. Is it destined that I shall never get a male English teacher for the rest of my life? How… disappointing.

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So that’s it. 24 slots, each running for 55 minutes. So that’s 22 hours of classes a week. Tiring. Ugh, I’m gonna have to start doing homework soon. Soon. Probably after I pack the desktop to my room so I can get uh… pumped up.

(Akram dan Shafiq, sila jangan marah kalau kamu berdua balik dan tiada game untuk bermain. Kalau mahu complain sila buat sekarang.)