Ever have a moment where you lose complete faith in the human race?
Well I did. At my Japanese lesson's exam, a group of adults, i.e at least 20plus of age, actually conspired to cheat in that exam by copying each other. It's honestly, quite despicable, as certain newspaper reports often mentioned that a young person, teenager age maybe, has maturity beyond his years. Honestly, I doubt that maturity comes with age, but with experience, being older means that you just get more opportunity for experience since you have lived for a longer time.
That particular phrase doesn't hold water to me anymore, especially since I happened to chance upon a pathetic sample of the species homo sapiens. If another species were to examine them and extrapolate their results as traits defining that the human race, well, they would probably not bother to even interact with us. Maybe that's why there is a lack of extraterrestrial activity on earth, cos aliens have sampled the wrong batch of people. (LOL)
Back to the point, I'm quite disheartened to see that episode really, because I believe that in many places around the world, this is commonplace. Shows how the mighty have fallen. (Giving up morals for status).
Before anyone harps on me however, I honestly admit to copying. Homework and notes only though. Never exams or tests. Exams are a measurement of understanding, by copying you are doing a disservice to yourself, dishonouring the setter's effort and undermining your potential employer's confidence in you. I cannot imagine doing that to a person. It's pretty much fraud. You probably could equate them to being a different breed of con-artist. That's why I draw the line at cheating.
Before, your brain turns to mush from the mix of conspiracy theory, math logic and ethics debate that I somehow manage to merge, you might realise that I'm not up to standard anymore. The English used is of a standard far far below my previous capability. University has sapped away my English proficiency. I want to take an English class, prefably on Etymology. (I originally spelled Entomology, go find out which is which) Does NUS provide one?
Ok, I'm gonna break the sombre mood of the post to tell you I'm having mid terms, i haven't started on my research paper and I haven't gone for lecture yet. Haiz, I'm so dead. And still, I manged to think that I still wanna go shopping and have fun. My priorities are screwed up. ><
Still, I wanna meet everyone soon, my social life went from minuscule to non-existent. Which is not only pretty sad, but downright depressing.
I also finished the newest Dan Brown novel, The Lost Symbol. My review? Go and read it. It's a fast paced entertaining story, not exactly high brow reading material and you could pretty much find a tonne of loopholes and sort of pointless divergences, and the final plot twist is probably gonna make you roll your eyes.(Or snort really loudly and go "WTF?!") Still, entertaining till the very end where it sorta fell flat. But Dan Brown's good at making the mystery trail suspenseful and a hit to read, so it's not too bad. Still, I like Deception Point more though.
By the way, just watch the newest episode of Bones, and all I can say is: How far-fetched can you get? But it's still my favourite show, so no complains, though the plot about the scholarship sorta made me really depressed. ><
Gonna end here, so I can go back to nerding and get a CAP of 5.0 (hopefully) =P
