Although we spend alot of time in school grounds, its not because we want to, but its because our curriculum forces us to. Our modules are very technical oriented and project-based.

Even if we want to take a break, we can’t, because we’re always going from one deadline to another. If you ask our guys around, they’ll tell you that we’re just struggling trying to survive through every semester. We don’t even have the time to mug like our counterparts in the rest of the University.

Our mean GPA is lower than the other schools because of the intense workload we have.

Please do not classify us as muggers, because, it is unfair. Even if we want to be muggers, we don’t have the time to mug at all

We want our lives backkkk.

Look into the significant differences across our schools. My experience in social science is considerably different than my SIS counterparts. I’m sure this is true if we compared notes from those in business, econs and accountancy. The system works in social science because it’s impossible to “mug” for a political science or a sociology exam.

It’s a matter of individual choice. Just stop calling this “chao-mugger” talk the SMU culture. Culture is something cultivated over long periods of time, entrenched and embedded where change happens incrementally. If there is such a large intergenerational difference between a simplistic dichotomy of “year 4s and year 3s” and “year 2s and year 1s”, is it really the SMU culture now? Nope. It’s the Singapore culture I believe.

hahah this is long enough to warrant its own post.