NUS, making things difficult for students. Again.

Purple for shuttle bus route (1.9km). Red for direct footpath (741m)

Once again, due to the magical & potent combination of lack of manpower, location booking, curriculum arrangement, faculties’ position, I am coerced by the wonderful NUS to have back-to-back lecture for 2 of my necessary modules in this coming semester. It seems that despite paying a premium school fee, NUS students often are unable to study the modules that they wish to pursue; often due to the fault of clashing/back-to-back lectures or simply because there is not enough lecturer to manage the subject during that semester. If our school fees are not used to hire more lecturers, or build more lecture theatres, then all those cash fly to where? Oh, they (NUS) must have used it to pay the arse that gave us CORS!~

Anyway, if you have noticed my back-to-back lectures are quite a distance apart. The purple route marks the path that I will traverse if I take shuttle bus A2. The downside is the waiting time, squeezing during school term, more time consumed by alighting/boarding at each stop. On the other hand, I gave the red route a go earlier and I was stumped…not by the patches of green forest that you may have guessed…but in between the 2 circle-like structures nearer to the right, there was literally a hill separating me & my destination zone. Returned to my starting point and decided to measure the time it takes for a shuttle bus to travel the “normal” way. Took 11mins LESS waiting time and minimal stopping along the way.

A better but still tiresome footpath (1.51km)

Took a water break then travel from my destination back to my original starting point (took the black path on foot). Took close to 13minutes of brisk walking. Either way sucks. Try doing this every week for a couple of months and I may actually get fit. NUS. A student’s largest obstacle to hassle-free curriculum. & dun get me started about CORS!~