From what I’ve experienced, NUS students are incredibly energetic, incisive, and fun-loving. The Tancho House Committee visited all rooms individually and delivered welfare packages to keep us snacking as we studied. More students than expected would be camped out at 3 or 4am in UTown in the largest Starbucks in Singapore. On any given night, students would organize a supper jio (meaning “invite”) in the Tancho group chat on WhatsApp, essentially compiling a list of food orders for a select restaurant (like a McSpicy from McDonald’s). In addition to three-hour-long class sessions, ACC1006, FIN3101A, and FIN3117 each demand seven to eight hours of preparatory work per week according to the syllabi. Coursework is not easy. Peer competition and instructors’ expectations are high. Theoretically, I could travel five days a week and still attend all three modules stacked on Monday and Tuesday. I know one girl managed to hit six countries already, so it’s possible if you want to live that life. However, some Saturdays are occupied by exams, and studying is an absolute necessity. For the first half of the semester, coursework was light, allowing me to comfortably travel every other week. I didn’t want to overdo it by leaving the country every weekend. However, the second half of the semester hit faster than expected, and along came the exams, term papers, and group projects that would collectively judge how much I retained amidst the distractions. Despite a few adventure-ready weekends, the mounting pressure to at least perform decently in the modules and complete my fair share of group work, paired with the fact that I have largely not explored Singapore, have convinced me to postpone any travel plans. After all, the temples and volcanoes will still be there, at least in the near future. The end of this experience abroad is rapidly approaching. Just as everything began rolling, it is all being abruptly forced to a close. I will have my last class session on April 17; reading week begins on April 21. After submitting a Bank Management term paper on April 20, I will have roughly 2-3 weeks to travel Southeast Asia before my Accounting Information Systems final exam on May 10. NUS Business School Career Services Prior to leaving for Singapore, I contacted the NUS Business School Career Services Office and inquired about interning in Singapore. BIZ Career Services sent me the following cover letter template, resume template, and foreign student guide and shared that exchange students are entitled to only one career consultation session of 30 minutes with the career advisor.
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Keng-Chia Chao BBA Candidate in Finance, Accounting, & Management Information Systems Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Archives
May 2018
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