feeling Triumphant

no no no not that brand of Bra, just... haha not to that great an extend of being really triumphant, but a little bit proud of myself that's all.

Today is the official start of out tutorials. Hmm.. had Critical Thinking & Writing. During the tutorial we were supposed to group into 3s and discuss about some articles, spot their arguments and assumptions and blah blah. That guy in my group kinda pissed me off. In a discussion, do you always have to dismiss other people's opinions? You always think that your opinions are always right? I thought I'm enough of a sturborn freak but here I am getting pissed by someone. Dismissing someone's view right from within the first 0.00000001 second is an instant turn-off.

But, surprise surprise Siu Hang was able to give some very good answers~ *grin grin*, spotted some implicit assumptions (picking on people's words is what I like to do.. so much for playing with words.. ) and I even managed to challenge the author's claim (they were trying to mislead us with similar articles by the same author, but I spotted the different title and different media.. one was in Newsweek and the other in Washington Post) That kind of shocked the class... "oh yeah hor!" The tutor was speechless....... Sorry Mrs Jaidev~

Found some interesting quote in the article though,

And even elite schools have dimwits and deadbeats.... Companies prefer the competent from Podunk to the incompetent from Princeton. If you can't (or won't) take advantage of what Princeton offers, Princeton does no good. What students bring to college matters more than what colleges bring to students.
--- Robert Samuelson, October 1999

So... guess no matter how hard this NUS undergraduate (aka Siu Hang) studies, he still may not find a good life. So I should slack, shouldn't I? =P