For the Engineering Students, By the Engineering Students

Existence and change

Saturday, September 13, 2008

NUS Students' Engineering Club is the official union (student) representative of all Engineering undergraduates in NUS. Every management committee member, regardless of his portfolio, is but a member of the team put into office to protect the interests of our undergraduates.

The way we operated in the past years may not have shown you what we could have done, other than organising activities and camps. It may not seem like we were in the business of representing our students. In this term, I would, as much as I possibly can, contribute to enable a more transparent dealing and interaction between Engin Club and our students.

This is the primary reason for the existence of this blog - A rambling space for me to impress upon anyone that change needs a conscious effort and we can be part of it. At the end of the day, even if I fail after one year of nagging, I could have influenced another soul to continue this change after I step down.

What change? A great institution has a soul. It has a character. The NUS Faculty of Engineering is a good institution but not a great one (yet). The hardware and research facilities are there. The brains are there. The cutting technology is there. The population is there.
BUT the people are not there. When we come together, there is no character, there is no soul. We do not speak common language. We lack that commonest. We lack that culture.

The simplest of things all. How many of us can name who dean is, his background etc. Who knows the Vice Dean of undergrad? I don't intend this post to be a finger pointing session. In fact, I just want to tell you how much I wish, at the end of 4 years, I would want to step back to this institution because it has molded me as a person. How much I wish I would love the culture I was in during my university life.

Now to cut things short I just want to show you a video by Randy Pausch. Perhaps one day... we could have such a rich culture in our faculty...

Anyway for those who don't Randy Pausch. here's his bio~
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch
very much like tuesdays with morrie~

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