The past few weeks have been a very busy period for me. Initially, it all started with assignments. Like LOTS of them. Really felt burnt out from the assignment rush. Had to compile the work for my group and I can tell you that compiling is the most difficult work in every group assignment (that's if you're a perfectionist).
The first thing that you must do before you compiling is to proofread their work. This means you have to spend time to read through the stuff that people have prepared. It's not easy to do it when you find it difficult to understand the message that your friends are conveying through their work. Lots of guesswork and lots of cracking-my-head-to-figure-out-what-it is. Sometimes even grammar checks by itself can take an hour or more. Really tedious
BUT.......
The biggest problems that I always have with compiling people's work is that they give below-par work to you. It's not like they expect you to do it for them but at the end of the day, you'll feel that the work that they've given you is not on par with your expectations. So I usually end up editing it myself when this happens (or more like overhauling their work sometimes). As it is, I've already had to overhaul 1 person's work completely. To put it bluntly, the materials this person has sent me is completely rubbish. I think I spent half to 1 hour reading his materials and ended up spending another 2 hours just overhauling everything.
Now that I'm pretty much done with assignments for good, it's study week last week and exam week this week. Did quite a fair bit of studying for the past 2 weeks. 1 more week of studying before Camp X. Then, I'll be a part-time in the job market =D Ciao
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