Stress Along With Happiness

When I first saw students at Temasek Junior College, I was a little shocked: the canteen hadn’t been fully occupied but almost everyone arrived was reading notes or writing something even if having breakfast at the same time. How could students in the seemingly casual campus live such a hurried life?
The agenda next strengthened my doubts even deeper. The first class I attended is Biology Experiment. Unlike the way in China that students conduct experiments following teachers’ instructions step by step, all the one in my buddy’s class were required to test out the content of the unknown solution and finish the report within a limited time, during which students do everything alone. My buddy said these tests count. As a result, I cannot be involved in doing the experiment… Later the class was project work and after this economics and so on. They came on after another, even without time to have a break. I can’t help asking my buddy: “how can you be so energetic?” Although she denied, in my mind, it requires such a great perseverance to listen so carefully in every class in condition of sleeping at midnight every day. Not until 1.30p.m., did we have lunch. Then I suddenly realized the importance of adding energy at 9.30a.m.Temasek JC ranks 5th in Singapore now and students here are generally carefully selected from their secondary schools. I have to say, anyone who wants to be excellent needs to pay more sweat than others, no matter which country he or she is living in. What makes me envious of is their colourful co-curricular activities on every Wednesday and Friday. Debating, guitar, tae kwon do…students really spend lots of time on them and after 2 years they will be bound to harvest a lot. This reminds me of the tense life in China’s high schools; we are also tired but what we get in the end maybe limited.
Above are my strongest feelings—stressful and happy lives are combined together in TJC!