In Continuum.

Anyway, this semester is a little different from the others. Not only because this is a summer semester, the modules have also been split into half for one reason or another. I know that most people I know are enjoying their holidays, my American friends are having their summer breaks, and I am the only person I know having classes in the summertime. At least the subjects this time don't seem to heavy on the brain, and it certain is going to be a lighter load since we are only going to take two modules for the first half of the semester, then another two for the next. That also translates to a faster-paced semester though, with the mid-terms being in week three instead of week six - the horror! I guess we just have to adapt to things, summer semester isn't supposed to be a killer semester in the first place anyway. Fingers crossed, and I do hope that the summer heat is not going to get to the better part of my brain. Summer is an understatement in Singapore, it's more like a giant sauna for the most part. Taking a bus to school used to be an enjoyable thing, but it has transformed into a life and death struggle with the sun somehow. It's like walking with a burning torch tied to the back of your head, it's not a laughing matter.

Things still look pretty much the same at school, although the school seems a little more crowded than before somehow. I suppose the school should really start to regulate the amount of new students coming into the school, because the amount of seats available around the school compound is decreasing at an alarming rate. Little has changed in that respect, and I still miss those times last year when the school used to be an empty concrete box, when the school was almost taken up entirely by my batch of students. Anyway, the friends from my course still look pretty much the same, save for a few adventurous individuals who decided to adapt themselves to the whole summertime vibes. Travers dyed his hair back to the blond head we've got to know him with last year, and Dominic has shaved off those long hair of his back into a neat army-type hairstyle. Then again, I think he came back to school from camp or something, and that was probably the reason behind it. Jonno's hair was chaotic in a tidy way, a strange way to describe it but that's the only expression I can think of other than it being really good on his head. Kevin has decided to dye his own hair into a dashing shade of red, and that color somehow reminded April of a gangster somehow - I can see why.

We have Jan back onboard again, something which I am very thankful of. Sure, I missed my A by five points last semester, but at least she did whatever she could to help us I suppose. Besides, I do love her written assignments, since writing is really my forte with MCQs being my ultimate nemesis. We've pretty much gotten used to her style of teaching, though I must say that I hate to be in a class that has too many students chattering away whenever she is talking. I really prefer the last class that we had, with a smaller group and a more controlled environment. I'm pretty sure that it is going to take more than a bell on Jan's part to keep the class quiet halfway through the semester. Perhaps a baseball bat, or a flamethrower, whatever she can carry to school from her apartment downtown. Anyway, I am just glad that we don't have quizzes this time around to punish my morales like the last semesters did. Seriously, I don't do too well with multiple choice questions, I have a strange ability to make sense out of every option - that is not good at all when you are not very smart, like me.

Now, I have heard news of the horrors of PSY 250 even before this semester even started. Shen was telling us about the horror stories he went through when he took the same module in his polytechnic days, and things sure weren't looking out to be very good back then. I didn't have my hopes up for this module at all, in fact I actually contemplated on dropping this module altogether for the first time in my academic life. But the military part of me took over and convinced me to just bash my way through despite of everything, which was why I decided to give it a shot today and see how things are going to turn out. I'm not sure how the module is going to be like in terms of the subject, but the lecturer sure looks to be a very nice person indeed. Dr. Julie Bowker is indeed a step up from all the other lecturers that I have ever had, and is incredibly young to be in her current position as well. She reminds me of Pam Beesley from The Office somehow, but I guess it is the voice and maybe the distance between the eyes - a strange way to make the connection, I realized. Anyway, I came home and did some research over the internet regarding her, and it turns out that she has a very high rating over at www.ratemyprofessors.com, with a bunch of positive reviews from her old students - very encouraging indeed! I am definitely looking forward to her classes, and the promise of an "A" in her course outline is sure very assuring. Apparently her surname is Wojslawowicz, however you pronounce that. I better learn the spelling of it, it may come out for one of the reading quizzes.

Anyway, this semester is shaping up to look pretty hopeful somehow, although I am only taking two of the four semesters for the first half. We'll see how things work out down the line, but for now I am pretty excited and enthusiastic about things. I know we don't have fun modules like MUS116 anymore, but who cares - we have a lecturer who looks like Pam Beesley. Bonus marks for that!