CS life.

Conversation that just happend 5 mins ago in the editing room:

Lide: Wahlau, all of stalk until like that. All the freshies are going to have the wrong impression of us. Not all of us stalk okay. I for one, am not like that.

(not even split second of silence)

WL: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
Peds: HAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
Liz: HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAAHA

Lide: Thanks, nice reaction guys. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHHAHAH.

Okay freshies, if you happen to be reading this… allow me to dispel some myths about CS life:

1. Yes, it is true, not all of us stalk. Only in the name of WKWSCIFOC’09 and the excitement of meeting all you new freshies do we get exceptionally kaypoh. Normally we are less exciting than we look. (But still more exciting than the general NTU populace)
2. Not all of us dress really nicely when we come to school. My order of the day (depending on my mood) is usually a permutation of tshirt/shorts, spagh/shorts, and slippers, slippers, and slippers. And no I’m not abnormal. But yes, there are people who dress really well. I am still astounded at the ones who manage to appear for 8.30am lectures in heels, makeup, perfect hair and beautiful clothes.

Honestly, when I first came to CS, I was concerned about not fitting in. I’m not much of a dresser, I love my tshirts and shorts too much (and then you’ll realize that most of us in school do). (Most of) The guys only have a few shirts in their wardrobe all of which you would have seen by the 2nd week of school, and we are all, far more normal than all this online activity makes us look.

So if you’ve been feeling intimidated by all the activity and our behavior, don’t be! I’m not surprised though, if I were a freshie, I think I’d be somewhat taken aback. But have no fear! CS may be small, but we aren’t photocopies of each other. As a wise senior said to me before I came to Wee Kim Wee;

Don’t worry about not being to make friends. CS may be small but you will definitely find people who think like you. (Lee WY, 2008)

So freshies, put your heart at rest, come and enjoy the camp. We really are quite unassuming, friendly and very kopitiam in real life.

First few things I remember about CS.

In light of the upcoming FOC, it’s time to dig out a one-year-old spur of the moment observation that was prominently noted within our batch.

CS LT phenomena.

An obvious exaggeration, but the number of mac users in this school (and in our batch) is quite astounding.

As KJ once said;

In order to be different in this school you don’t buy a mac, you buy a PC.