And it's over. Just like that. We are at our last blogpost. Classes have ended a week ago and exams are coming. Looking back at this ES2007S journey, this journey has been a truly memorable one.
I realized how small classes like this can bring so much joy, fun and learning benefit to people. I felt that I learned better from this class as there were fewer people and everyone got a chance to speak up. We were free to share our opinion and respected each others' views despite differences. We all have our own distinctive ways of communicating, some of us being more aggressive than others, some extremely quiet, but it was really heart-warming as to how despite these difference communication styles, we still took it with a pinch of salt and an open mind. We encourage those who didn't say much to step forward while those who spoke a lot took the back seat every now and then. Not everyone who is aggressive wants to fight, and not everyone who is quiet has nothing to say.
The best experience would be working on the group proposal. Being in my final semester and taking 6 modules, 3 of which are 100% CA based loaded with projects every week, I found myself conflicted with too many commitments. Life was tough given the added stress from the conflict with my best friends (remember blogpost #2?) and other things. But it was through this that I saw how blessed I was in terms of the people I meet. My groupmates were all so supportive and understanding of my other commitments. We pushed each other with a little nudge but never outright pressured each other. We gave each other space and trusted each other to complete our work on time and with best effort. We also helped each other with each others' parts if ever we could not cope or did not understand how to go about the work exactly.
Our group spanned from freshmen to final year students, local, foreign and exchange, quiet to loud. Despite the diversity, we never had problems with each other. In fact, I think we complemented each other very well. We had the quiet thinkers who were organized, we had the vocal ones who verbalized ideas into more concrete forms. We had a multitude of opinions because of our diverse majors and faculties. It added a lot of colour to the proposal and most of all to the experience.
As this post (and blog) comes to a close, I would like to thank everyone who has been part of my ES2007S journey. Classmates, groupmates and Mdm. Fazilah, you all have made my final semester truly a colourfull one. All the best to everyone and may we meet again one day.
Merci. Bon voyage.
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