If being a student means leaving school at 9pm…..
I left school at almost 9.30pm today, and to my surprise, I noticed that there was still a good number of students studying and discussing their work around the campus. It seemed as if they were ready to stay the whole night, and it’s only the 4th week of school term! In the background, various students societies carried banners and furniture around, preparing for their various events that will be held during the following day. The girlfriend commented that while she was in Hawaii, the school was seemingly abandoned at around 3pm everyday. This Chinese exchange student I met a couple of days back also mentioned the same thing about having less after school activities in China.
Vibrant varisity life or the pressures of the Singaporean education system? You tell me.
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Vibrant varsity life… yes, for locals only. If you are an exchange (western) student, you have to try real hard in order to get into. Pressure? I don’t think so, if you do your assignments on time and find the space to do so before night… guess what, you’ll be leaving campus early.
I noticed all that 4 years ago at NTU, and I guess things haven’t changed a lot.
yes you are absolutely right. I only stayed back in school because I wanted a evening jog. I’ve never stayed later than 6 in campus for work before either. It’s all about time management.
It depends on the university, though. I went to university in the US and most of the students lived on campus, which meant that there were always lots of activities (not necessarily academic) going on way into the night — even though the bright lights of Chicago were just a short drive away.
NUS and NTU seem to be trying to get more students to live on campus (that’s why they’re massively building new dorms, right?), so I suspect they’re trying to encourage this sort of all-day-long activity on campus. SMU, on the other hand, seems to be dead by late afternoon, at least on the street level.
Yeah I heard from a friend studying in California that universities over there generally try to include you in their activities and all. As for NUS and NTU, I can’t be sure whether they are building more dorms because people demand for them, or they are building more dorms because they want more people to live in them, get what I mean?
I’ve recently been staying back at school till midnight, since I moved close to school, and was surprised to find that I was not alone.
yeah surprising amount of life at night really. People like me who go home early after class don’t get to see and experience that.