Life at Imperial

My 2nd week at Imperial is now over. With the first week revolving around fresher activities, this week was really the first week. If I had the time to blog daily I could go on and on about life here, but details get forgotten easily, so for now I'll water things down heavily.

Lectures started on Monday with Mathemathics, and at the end of it, everyone who took Further Maths at A Level said they no longer understood complex numbers, which was our first and easiest topic. We also had lectures for various other electical and electronic subjects, but I won't bore you with details, except to say my classes are 9-6 with ocassional hour breaks. I also have 5 hours of electronic lab a week, and 2 hours of computing lab.Plus a group project that will take up our first two terms here.

Lectures basicly is 200 people listening to one person talking for an hour. Work will never be marked and is completely optional(execpt one bloody subject called technical communication where we have to do presentations and write essays), and I have to say the independence of uni life is amazing.You show up for what you want, do what you want and nobody cares about you. Sink and float on your own. But if you want to merely keep up with the pace, you need to put up an incredible amount of work. To chill out and begin studing just before exams, as we all did in Malaysia, is simply not an option. It cannot be done. But I am going to give it a shot anyway.

The Malaysian Society is one of the biggest national societies at Imperial. I made it a point to attend the General Meeting on Wednesday, and it was fun to socialise with Malaysians, and talk food. Especially since my course is heavily Singaporean and there are only so many times you can argue which country is better. Malaysians tend to be really friendly to other Malaysians when overseas, so there were some interesting conversations there.

Locals and Europeans here know how to have fun. And they are very open here, they make their thoughts very clear, unlike Malaysians who are generally a timid lot. However, one warning to any of you thinking of coming to London, Londeners drink like fish. And they fully expect you to keep up.