had my first NTU H3 lesson on monday, and i have to say it's far from what i expected. the first module is on biophysics, and we spent the first 20min or so looking at pictures of cells and dna, which i obviously couldnt appreciate at all. when the lecturer showed us a nobel prize-winning molecule, all i could picture was a ball of tangled string. also, it turns out that biophysics involves a great deal of chemistry as well (biology + physics = chemistry?), so pretty much the rest of the lecture was spent talking about chemical bonding. that's the exact same chemical bonding that we learned last year, except that the H3 lecturer did not go as in-depth as the NJC lecturer cos he doesnt assume as high a chemistry standard as the teachers back in NJC. so in the end, actual physics education was at a minimum. when i went back to NJC for training i asked shikai what the MOE H3 has been teaching, and apparently they have started on Lorentz transformation, aka that physical quantities such as length and volume can be distorted in near-lightspeed situations. honestly i dont know too much about relativity so i cant comment much here, but it seems that MOE H3 definitely seems to be more "othordox" and in line with traditional physics lessons, which i guess could turn out to be a good or bad thing. desptie all that, i still believe i made the right choice, and im sure that in time this fact will prove itself.
the ignis dance people (by that i mean the ones who actually have a dance cca, not the ones doing the walk-in dance) seem to think that the JH ogls from O1 dance better than the SH ogls of O2. it's quite improbable that out of random occurence the JH dance skill level just happens to be noticeably higher than that of the SH, so lionel and i have put forth another reason why there happens to be this trend. the JH ogls were in the "ignorance" stage, where they dont know how funny they look faliling their limbs all over the place. then there is the second stage, "realisation", where it finally hits them that they look like idiots and hesitate before doing anything, thus resulting in a very crappy-looking dance. i'd guess that most of the SH ogls are here. then finally there is "resignation", which is where people like lionel are. in this stage, you cease to care about your personal image and just do whatever the heck the dance requires you to do. thus, i conclude that there is only one golden rule to remember to have a good walk-in dance, or just simply to become a good ogl:
THERE IS NO DIGNITY IN ORIENTATION
i think it's quite comprehensive :)
