ramblings of 03S78

03S78. HCJC.

27 of us make up the lovely class of 03S78 :)

it was a year and 6 mths ago that we graduated from hwachong, nothing much has
changed since then - we still have the good old class outings when we spend most
of the time walking around (+ extended one in europe recently), we still play
mahjong, watch movies, go æçå¦! together (at nwxiang's request of course)..

to many more years of friendship!

teddy! :)

our beloved school :)

our lovely flag.

outside canteen.

chalet in ubin.

'A' lvls results '05

Chao recruits!! '05

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Yijin + girls! '05

Xiz, Ms Wang + guys! '04

* 03S78
* hwachong junior college

* candice
* lifang
* yang
* xiaoxuan
* hilda
* quanyao
* xizhen
* sharon
* huiqi
* meiyin
* yijin
* yifan
* pear
* nwxiang
* weixin
* samuel
* ningqi
* pua
* yilin
* eliza
* wijaya
* ronnie
* weilei
* bong
* ryan shea
* wuwei
* r~linz

* hwachong!
* IVLE :)
* 30th Anniversary!
* HJC Council! :)
* our funky yahoogroups! :)
* winning thinkquest entry - i-Matrix
* blogger
* blogskins

* junior class!
* grandjuniors!
* 06s78
* 07s78
* 08s78

* dearly beloved ms wang!
* 03S77
* 03S75
* 03S71
* 03S7A
* 03A11
* 03A12
* 03S62
* 03S69

* 04S68
* 04S62

from a natsci

haha first of all - i doubt i can match ryan's flair for the written word. i tried to persuade yifan to humour us all, but apparently he prefers watching movies than to impress us all.. prove me wrong, bun! =D

when i last posted here, it was slightly more than a week before my exams; when i'm writing this, i already know what my results are haha. in an impressive display of efficiency, my department has posted our results within 3 days of the conclusion of our exams. it could have been faster - although our exams ended on monday, us geneticists were down for a 20 minute viva on either tuesday or wednesday. by thursday, 10.15am, our results were pasted on a board at senate house (which is the tradition here). i just came back from a departmental bbq dinner, and apparently this efficiency is repeated yearly. lecturers typically finish marking their scripts within a day, and since the genetics course offered here is quite fixed ("pure" geneticists take all 5 courses offered by the department), that helped a lot in coordinating the quick publication of results.

unlike the medics, us natscis have reached a juncture in our lives where we decide where our next step would be. mine's no less uncertain - i plan to prolong my student life next year, and although i've already fulfilled the academic criteria of my conditional offer, i have yet to secure the means to fund myself. i'm cautiously optimistic that things will work out though!

i guess the third year is when we start getting a taste of what our professional lives might be - medics start to, tremblingly, offer their first diagnoses to their patients; natscis start to, blur-ly, grope in the dark for results for their project, if they chose to do one. i have to say my final year project is one of the highlights of my course - i loved it to bits. my project made me realise it's still very possible to somehow mesh my interests in bio and programming together - i spent 8 weeks being a lousy part-time programmer, spending lots of time writing code, and even more time debugging it. i had a great supervisor as well, which made everything even more enjoyable!

while medics are constantly under pressure to remember what they've learnt, it's sort of the reverse in the science world - things change so rapidly, we're actively encouraged to forget anything beyond, say, 3 years! models that were envisaged to explain the genetic relationships between genes get refined by biochemical work; ideas that one might consider to be "common-sensical" start to be doubted because of current evidence (eg: synonymous mutations, in which a point mutation did not affect the amino acid being coded. it's a subclass of silent mutations, as silent mutations can mean mutations that substitutes an amino acid of similar properties. anyway, current research have found that in some cases, synonymous mutations can cause "translational pausing", which in severe cases causes the distortion of the protein structure as well!) it's perfectly okay in the scientific world to admit one's ignorance - lecturers often tell us to speak to someone else if the question we asked fell outside of their specific fields! they feel that the other guy's in a better position to know what has happened in their field in the last few months.

anyway, i'm glad that i did my science degree here - over here, the science courses are regarded to be one of the most rigorous ones offered by the uni (that hasn't prevented the medics from joking that if they fail their exams, they'll drop back down into a natsci course!). i get good lectures, get spoon-fed excellent notes by some lecturers, get to do projects with great supervisors, get 1-on-1 supervisions with highly-esteemed professors, and we have more weeks of holidays than weeks of school. what more can i ask for? =P

i'm starting to get incoherent cos i need to go to sleep now. it's 3.40am and the birds are starting to chirp outside my window cos the sun will rise in an hour's time. goodnigh.. erm, morning!

Yi Jin lived on 3:39 AM

- 03S78 forever -

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