No Secret is The Secret

July is approaching and many university students should be getting back to school and the newbies should be busy attending orientation camps.

Hall life is cool, but at the same time, there is non stop activities all days and nights, and could be distracting most of the time. When you are about to calm yourself down to read, someone will knock at your door ...

I received an email asking me what and how i did to balance my university life, when I was an active Hall JCRC main comm member and still did well with my work as a student.

So this is what I replied ..

"There is no secret in life really. Always about balancing oneself, play very hard, work very hard too. The only thing that one must do, is to find your very own strategy. For a hostelite, do not study in your room if you are someone popular and active, hide yourself in the study room or in the library when you want to concentrate on your work, and when you get back to the hall, play all you can.

Due to the vast amount of activities and involvement one may have in the hall, it is very common to feel exhausted, when you feel like it is time to study. If you force yourself to read in that state, you will end up going through the same paragraph again and again. Not only you will feel frustrated, you end up not effective at all.

When you feel tired, go for a nap, wake up fresh to have quality time to go through the school work. When the mind is clear, study time becomes effective, short and sweet.

So there is no secret really. Quality time counts.

One thing I always standby is that no doubt academic excellence is important, all the external activities did contribute a great deal to how i can be where i am today. So by not partcipating in anything, probably will make oneself all work no play, a dull boy."

For all going back to school, study hard. Enjoy.