Final reflection on learning

It has been a really fun and enjoyable journey in ES2007s!

I have not had a module with presentation for a while. This module has allowed me to revisit my presentation skills and to pick up communications skills that are useful beyond university. This module also gave me the opportunity to interact with people of different faculties and nationalities which I value.

Peer teaching was  a very pleasant experience for me. Jake, Teo Huei and Celine are very helpful and friendly individuals. Really miss the times at starbucks @ YIH. I still remember the times we took photos of our different facial expressions for our mock peer teaching presentation. And despite the fact that our actual and mock peer teaching was back to back, I think our group handled the deadlines very well. Thank you for being such supportive and encouraging teammates! I would like to specially mention Celine whom I felt improved a lot through the semester.( PS: Teo Huei, you owe us breakfast. Thurs at 9am okay? DONT PANGSEH)

My experience with my proposal group was also a very enjoyable and enriching one too. As mentioned in my previous blogpost, I really liked how we complement each other. Also, the similarities in our outgoing and cheerful personalities really help make the project a bit more tolerable despite the heavy workload. There were times when we were really at our wits end but thank you for being there and figuring things out for one another. Also, thank you for sending us home IZ! I enjoyed myself thoroughly cause of both of you!

On a personal note, I think I have improved over the semester. I used to be very fidgety when I present but I think I am more stable now as a presenter. I learned how to use my tone and gestures a little more. Also, I picked up skills from the individuals in my class and for this I would like to thank everyone in the class. Last but not least, thank you Meng Choo for her guidance, patience and advice throughout the semester. Her teachings will stay with me for a very long time.  

I wish everyone all the best as we come to the end of this semester! :DD

-Joyce

Reflection on Project Proposal

It has been a fulfilling and enjoyable time working with Inn Zheng and Hark Hui. I enjoyed every project meeting with them. I suppose this falls back to our personalities where we are all quite talkative and jovial people. Meetings were filled with laughter and I always enjoy looking at both of them impersonating the typical 'uncle' and 'aunty' at NTUC (our project is related to that). Jokes aside, working with them had its fair share of challenges and triumphs. I remember at the start where we each did on a topic related to the subject. In the end, we had to remove 2 entire sections cause it was just too much. In the midst of the project, there were also times where better organisation and communication could have been put into place as we did not really assign roles and everyone contributed to project at their own free time. I think this can be both good and bad. A learning point here would hence to be more organised and communicate more with one other with regards to the project. Better assignment of roles and timeline management can also be done.

Triumphs wise, I think the difference in our working styles helped quite a bit. Inn Zheng despite his cheery personality, is quite a thinker and analyst. Hark Hui the statistics major, is very sensitive to data and does a lot of research. In certain ways, we do complement one another. I am indeed blessed to have these two group members whom I can work but also have fun with. I hope it has been an enjoyable and interesting process so far for them as it has been for me. I look forward to working on the presentation with them((:!