it's the time of the semester again, where my sleep time gets messed up, and increases (exponential with the amount of time i use to study) and stress levels rise. and i keep forgetting to eat. or else i eat strange things at strange hours. bleh. hope i get good results this semester like last semester. i don't wanna be a one hit wonder.
since there is nothing remotely interesting going on in my life right now, i'm just reminded of my friend john the miner. whom i met through my science communication class and is my partner for two of my group presentations.
he's around twenty five years old i think, and other than being a superbly sarcastic albeit nice guy, he also has trouble reading. i found that out the first time i edited his email to forward to our lecturer of interest ( we had to interview her so we had to prepare a list of questions ) and he thanked me for correcting his grammar. a few classes later, i learnt that he was dyslexic. i offered to peer review his literature review plan and every few sentences i marked, i shoved the paper towards him and said "DUDE I CANT READ YOUR HANDWRITING". he mixes up several letters like his 9s and his Ps.
this one time i was hanging back class with him ( one other reason was cos' my tutor is supremely hot like dark angel the guy with glasses hot ) and we were chatting, the three of us and he was talking about his disorder.
he only learnt to read during 9th grade, and before that they threw him to special ed classes. cos' they thought he was retarded. he worked his way out of it and managed to pass english with flying colours during high school. he was pretty chuffed about it, andhe said my biggest accomplishment to date. anddd i made it to uni. and he grinned. so i said okay, you can keep the poster then. i designed it and we had to print it out and present it during class and i was gona keep it but oh well, i wasn't gona make much use of it anyways. we're gona study together for the final exam and i'm pretty inspired by him . if someone like him can do it, i def can T_T ( i hope )
i am also really restless now n i wanna hit something cos' i have this *ball* of energy in me..
since there is nothing remotely interesting going on in my life right now, i'm just reminded of my friend john the miner. whom i met through my science communication class and is my partner for two of my group presentations.
he's around twenty five years old i think, and other than being a superbly sarcastic albeit nice guy, he also has trouble reading. i found that out the first time i edited his email to forward to our lecturer of interest ( we had to interview her so we had to prepare a list of questions ) and he thanked me for correcting his grammar. a few classes later, i learnt that he was dyslexic. i offered to peer review his literature review plan and every few sentences i marked, i shoved the paper towards him and said "DUDE I CANT READ YOUR HANDWRITING". he mixes up several letters like his 9s and his Ps.
this one time i was hanging back class with him ( one other reason was cos' my tutor is supremely hot like dark angel the guy with glasses hot ) and we were chatting, the three of us and he was talking about his disorder.
he only learnt to read during 9th grade, and before that they threw him to special ed classes. cos' they thought he was retarded. he worked his way out of it and managed to pass english with flying colours during high school. he was pretty chuffed about it, andhe said my biggest accomplishment to date. anddd i made it to uni. and he grinned. so i said okay, you can keep the poster then. i designed it and we had to print it out and present it during class and i was gona keep it but oh well, i wasn't gona make much use of it anyways. we're gona study together for the final exam and i'm pretty inspired by him . if someone like him can do it, i def can T_T ( i hope )
i am also really restless now n i wanna hit something cos' i have this *ball* of energy in me..
