Lecture.

I was so looking forward to today since yesterday night, so much so that I didn’t really have too much mood for work this morning. But I still manage to put my portal online. Now all I need is just some people doing a bit of testing, while I go figure out how to do uploading in pure ASP, do up a forum and sort out the email server.

Attended my first lecture at Fudan today and I really enjoyed myself. The lecturer was a very funny guy – he managed to link financial markets to how Taiwan would never be able to gain independence. Then the materials covered in the lecture was very easy to understand as well, and I think I really learned a lot of things in just 2 hours of class. I think it was also the first time that I furiously copied notes and still managed to understand a lot of the lecture. Maybe lecturers in NUS can learn something from their Fudan counterparts. Lessons should be as interesting as that.

The thing about lessons in Fudan (or China in general) is that students tend to arrive at the classroom very early (they don’t really have those huge lecture theatres like the ones in NUS). I was at the classroom at 6, half an hour before class starts, and yet the classroom was almost 80% full. And then nobody ever seems to be late, and those who can’t find a seat will all stand faithfully at the back of the class just to listen (some did copy notes, I think). No wonder Fudan is such a great university – it’s the kind of study attitudes that NUS students can never match. There’s no lecture notes prepared by the lecturer before hand, so he talks and writes on the blackboard (yes, blackboards, not projectors, powerpoint and pull down screen you spoiled brats) and everyone tries his or her best to copy and understand.

Would be having an early class tomorrow, but I’m really looking forward to it. If things turn out to be as nice as today’s class, I think I’m going to enjoy my lessons very much in the coming months.

Picture of the classroom – the capacity is about 200, and the pic is taken half an hour before class starts. When the class actually started, it was so packed that the empty space at the back of the class was full of people, all standing and paying attention at the same time.

Matriculation.

How to maintain a proper posture while eating a highly filling steamboat dinner (as demostrated by Edwin):

Went over to Fudan University today to do my registration, and much to my surprise, school’s starting tomorrow! While I was doing my registration, I saw a lot of cute and pretty girls around on campus. That’s why I say studying in China is always going to allow me to see more people. However I’m still not in a hurry to find some Shanghai girl, contrary to what everyone is instigating me to do. Besides, I’m not really in a hurry just yet.