Currently, I am a third year undergraduate, majoring in Chemistry in National University of Singapore (NUS). During these 3 years of my university life, I was given the opportunity to go for European Immersion Program (EURIP) todifferent parts of Germany. It was definitely a great eye-opener for me. This program provides a real-life exposure with the business opportunities associated with the chemical industry and hands-on understanding of the role of chemistry in Europe. Having such exposure, I have gained more insights of the different kinds of laboratories and industries; and exposed to people of different cultures and languages. Moreover, I also actively involved in Science Orientation Camp (SCAMP) as seniors who led and took charge of a group of freshies. It trained me to be a better leader.
I am all along very active during my years of education. Firstly, being the President of Theresian Co-op in my secondary school, it trained me to lead my team to come out with entrepreneurial ideas. I was also given the honour to attend entrepreneurial courses. Hence, this enhances my organizational and creative thinking skills.
I also participated in the Youth Expedition Programme (YEP) during my tertiary education in Polytechnic to Northern Thailand to help the children in the village to build a community center. It was indeed a different kind of experience i had; staying in rural area (village). My compassionate self allows me to help the less fortunate children who are so simple and innocent.
Lastly, I was selected to go for overseas attachment to University of Queensland, Brisbane in my last year of Polytechnic study. This allowed me to expose to different educational structure and interacted with people of different cultures. I was assigned to a researcher who work very closely on food; so I assisted him on the new discoveries. Having this experience, my time management and interpersonal skills had greatly improved and the ability to work independently.
I have great passion in Sports, especially in swimming. I also enjoy jogging, listening to music and reading. :)
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Reflecting on the Research Project Experience
Our team, Bin-Oxygy, had been working hard on our research project since Week 4-5 (coming out a research topic) till now (the end product of the whole research project - Communication Skills Development in FOS). Workload is getting more and more each week, especially when the times we had to tabulate our survey results. This research project had been part of our daily routine to work on from doing research on the topic, coming up with the survey questions, writing emails to ask for interviews, meeting up with the interviewees, writing up the project parts by parts in order to meet the dateline of the drafts, and lastly editing the project to make it a better one.
Every one of us was assigned to different parts of the project to work on. Every week, we will have a discussion to check on each other’s progress on our individual part before our Tuesday and Friday ES2007s small group tutorial. For this project, we had made use of different kinds of communication methods – face-to-face, emails, MSN, phone conference and even online conference.
There are several things which I have gained insights on from this research project. Firstly, communication skills and time management are really very important (not only for this project.) We may come from the same faculty but the modules we took are different. Due to our heavy workload of our core curriculum, lab reports and other commitments, we still managed to hand in our work on time and meet up for our group discussions.
Next, from this research project, we managed to apply those skills that we learnt during ES2007s lesson, i.e. writing emails with clear and concise details, attending meeting with an agenda, effective communication skills and the 7Cs. Also, ES2007s module inspires us for our research topic! We had known so much more about the Science undergraduates, how communication skill is really important in the workforce and what the employers are really looking for from undergraduates.
Lastly, I would like to thank my group mates – Guang Yi and Xinyi for being understanding and their support throughout the whole process. And, all the best for our oral presentation and work hard for it again. And not forgetting, our tutor, Miss Happy Goh, for her time and effort to read our drafts, and to highlight our mistakes to us.
Every one of us was assigned to different parts of the project to work on. Every week, we will have a discussion to check on each other’s progress on our individual part before our Tuesday and Friday ES2007s small group tutorial. For this project, we had made use of different kinds of communication methods – face-to-face, emails, MSN, phone conference and even online conference.
There are several things which I have gained insights on from this research project. Firstly, communication skills and time management are really very important (not only for this project.) We may come from the same faculty but the modules we took are different. Due to our heavy workload of our core curriculum, lab reports and other commitments, we still managed to hand in our work on time and meet up for our group discussions.
Next, from this research project, we managed to apply those skills that we learnt during ES2007s lesson, i.e. writing emails with clear and concise details, attending meeting with an agenda, effective communication skills and the 7Cs. Also, ES2007s module inspires us for our research topic! We had known so much more about the Science undergraduates, how communication skill is really important in the workforce and what the employers are really looking for from undergraduates.
Lastly, I would like to thank my group mates – Guang Yi and Xinyi for being understanding and their support throughout the whole process. And, all the best for our oral presentation and work hard for it again. And not forgetting, our tutor, Miss Happy Goh, for her time and effort to read our drafts, and to highlight our mistakes to us.
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