Today is my college IACT orientation day. Cant sleep for the whole night yesterday and woke up at 7.30am. Yesterday rained for the whole night from 2am-5am lol so when I woke up at 7.30am, its very cold. Took 1 hour to prepare myself... bath, style my hair, breakfast, all done in an hour. Then I drove my mum's car kancil to IACT with my dad beside me, teaching me how to drive there and memorize the roads.
Along the journey to IACT, everything was smooth and perfect as I drove there, and the journey to IACT is about 1 hour, from Puchong to Damansara Utama. I had remembered the roads too as the roads are simple and easy.
Reached IACT at 9.25am, my dad drove the car back and I walked in to IACT. Received a file of my course schedule and college rules. The 1st thing I check was the course schedule... because of Redang trip that falls in May 23-25... and found out that May 25 got a class lol... hmm, maybe I can go Redang trip lor since that day only got 1 class only, haiz gotta sacrifice... About the course schedule, the time and dates are subject to change also by the way. This simply means that sometimes class would be canceled SUDDENLY with various reasons and will be replaced to other day. Also, in exam, 10% of marks is attendance and participance in class =.=... if skip classes, the mark will be deducted. If skip class more than 3 times without MC, the college will send warning letter to my house. And, if you are LATE in attending classes, 3 lates are equal to 1 absent! This scares me omg... late 3 times equal to 1 absent... looks like I need to be punctual haiz... and whatsmore, to encourage students to be punctual, lecturers will lock the door of the classroom and if you are late, you gotta stand in front of the classroom for a while to wait for the lecturers to let you come in.
Since I reached there early and I was the first one to reach there, feel quite lonely lol... so I just sitting there alone reading finished all the college rules and course schedule. As time passes, I saw students one by one came in... So at 10am, mostly everyone has arrived except for 2 people that came late today and joined us after for a while.
Well, my class, diploma in Creative Multimedia, there are only 3 people includes me, and, all 3 of us are boys =.=. There are about 15 people includes me, and all of us are mixed from the class of multimedia, advertising, graphic, mass comm and broadcasting. We will be studying together for our 1st semester as all of our subjects are the same. Then at 2nd semester, all of us will be splitted to our respective courses we choose. The 1st semester will ends at around September or October... well, if you failed the exam, you cant get into 2nd semester until you passed your exam. Great, if you failed your exam, you gotta pay RM150 per subject to re-sit it and if you failed greatly, you gotta pay RM1500 to repeat the subject again and this means that you have to repeat attending classes for the same subject for 14 weeks again, then pay RM150 to re-sit your exam!
These are the grades you will get in your exam:
A 80%-100%
B+ 75%-79%
B 70%-74%
B- 65%-69%
C+ 60%-64%
C 55%-59%
C- 50%-54%
D+ 45%-49% (re-sit exam, pay RM150 per subject you failed to re-sit)
D 40%-44% (re-sit)
D- 35%-39% (re-sit)
F 0%-34% (repeat the subject, pay RM1500, repeat attending classes for 14 weeks and then, another RM150 to re-sit the exam)
If you didnt attend classes for more than 6 times even with or without reason, you are not allowed to take the exam too; If you are caught in plagiarism in your assignments, you are not allowed to take exam too and for plagiarism, you may be expelled. For any scolarships you took, if your grade is less than B+, all scolarships you took will be scrapped!! HOLY! Sweet huh?
Im not afraid about the exam, what Im afraid most is about getting late omg =.=... 3 lates equal to 1 absent, and absenties will deduct your exam marks of 10% for attendance and participance in class. Whatsmore, you get locked outside the classroom if you are late, scary la.
So since I came early, I finished reading all the rules and schedule while waiting for the others for the orientation day. Finally, everyone arrived, and to my dissapointment, no leng luis around, and to my luck, no one is more lengzai than me.
The orientaion day starts as the head of the discipline teacher came to brief us about the college rules... well I think she's quite ok and Im fine with those rules, except for the rule of being late seems to be strict for me, and to your note, she's not that Pn. Lim Yoke Kheng type of head discipline teacher la haha, I would say she's a nice person. About our dress code, we can wear freely whatever we wanna wear to college, except pyjamas, slippers... no shorts and must be jeans. For girls, quite the same, adding another one rule of cannot wear sexy or revealing shirts. For our hair, anything, leave your hair as long as pondan also can XD.
About the students around... around 15 people like that for our 1st semester. Boys and girls are equal I think... about the ratio of 1:1 la. No leng luis, and I think the prettiest one is older than me and taller than me, much to my dissapointment. About the guys, no one is more lengzai than me but ALL of the boys are taller than me, means that Im the shortest and smallest boy in the class. But hey, at least Im taller than 70% of the girls ok, lol. Even Cloud Strife is 170cm tall only and Jay Chou is 172 cm tall... you dont give me 167cm tall meh =.=... I think Cloud is not 170cm la... I think his spiky hair makes him 170cm lol and his original height should be the same as mine, 167cm tall XD. So after spike my hair up, 170cm, lol. Seriously, no one is more lengzai than me, hehe! In detailed, boys, there are some fatsos, a few nerdy faces with specs, some horrible pimples faces... the rest, are quite normal look, its just that all of them are taller than me and of course, Im the most lengzai one! About the girls in details, some indians and malays (1-2), a girl in her 20's... about the age of 21+ is the prettiest one but taller than me and the rest, are... not my taste... HONESTLY, I think my form 6 girl classmates are far more prettier than them 1000 times =.=, this is 100% confirmed! Haiz, looks like being 'single' for another 2.5 years isnt a bad idea after all, awesome! =.=
Some of them are just after SPM; theres a girl that is the same as me, just after STPM; some are from TARC, UTAR, Lim Kok Wing and A-Levels; some didnt study at all and working, meaning that they had taken SPM long time ago but didnt continue their studies until today and there are one boy that's from India. Overall, there are people that are younger than me and there are people that are older than me.
Next, the headmaster of IACT gave his speech to us... saying about their college IACT is going to switch location to become a campus, which is more bigger, beautiful, more falculties and more cafeterias... if everything went smooth, they will switch IACT to the new location before the end of the year. Then the headmaster spend most his time to mention about plagiarism... which kinda freaks me out a bit but later I felt relieved that he mention about the lecturers will teach me how to do those quotation marks to avoid plagiarism.
All of us, about 15 people will be studying together for the 1st semester as all our subjects are the same and those are the basic subjects... all 15 of us are from different courses... multimedia, graphic, advertising, mass comm, broadcasting and will be splitted after the 1st semester ends and I think in the 2nd semester, my class, Creative Multimedia would be the together with Graphic Design students in 2nd semester as our subjects are the same until the 4th semester where we will be studying web design and animation while Graphic Design students will be studying history of arts and packaging design. Then the head of discipline took us around the college and let us see those stuffs... how to submit your assignments, download E-Notes and blablabla. There are several society in IACT too as well.
So our orientation day ends and I phoned my dad to bring the car here to teach me the road to go home, and so, I drove home with my dad beside me.
About the people, they are all nice I think... just no lengluis only... well theres some hope left, that is, waiting for those April intake students lol. According to our course schedule and what head of discipline explained to us, April intake students will be joining us in the same schedule with us, meaning that we, March intake students will combined with April intake students to study together. About my schedule, I think the time and date is very ok with me. My schedule in March and early of April is not that tight because the schedule is rather planned to be such way to wait for the April intake students so mostly March and the early of April is kinda relaxed to me. The mid of April, the schedule starts to turn tight and there are classes from 9am-3pm, 12pm-6pm after that from Monday to Thursday while there are no classes in Friday every week in this college it seems. Every Friday no classes seems relaxed to me hehe. Got 3 days break from Friday to Sunday, and Monday start class again, nice. The time of 9am-3pm wouldnt bother me much while 12pm-6pm seems to be kinda late to me.
For this week, my course schedule is:
Wed - 9am-12pm Mass Communication
Thurs - 3pm-6pm Computer Graphics
Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday no classes for this week.
The next week is also quite the same, very relaxed and there are numerous days of holidays too~
Tomorrow its gonna be a busy day for me because have to prepare some bank account thingy, buy printer ink and maybe another practise of driving car to my college and back to my house again. My dad is getting me a car... well not me, my dad will buy a new car for my mum and I will be using my mum's 10 year old white Kancil car =.=... but who cares as long as I GOT A CAR haha! My parents said maybe 2 weeks later I will get to use my mum's old car as the new car will be here next 2 weeks and the new car is going to be my mum's car.
Sorry for so many mistakes in this post, feel kinda tired now after today's events.