School has been horrible.

I'm having a lot of difficulty catching up with my work lately, and I'm badly behind tutorials. Yikes, suck my life.

As if that stress is not enough, PW is not cutting off some slack in my life recently. After squeezing everything I can for my first piece of PW work- the PI, I actually have people in my group copying-wholesale copying, my ideas.

Firstly just let me touch on the unfairness of such selfishness and disregard. I have to say that most people putted in efforts in their PI. How many people spent sleepless nights just to do this piece of work? I bet 90% of the student population will raise both of their hands in agreement.

But how fair is it, if you just take someone's PI and copy what he or she wrote, and then claim it to be your own? As everyone spent a huge portion of their time doing their PI, you spent a small portion of yours copying and then completing it in no time. In case you're wondering , no references or acknowledgements were given to me. Not knowing how to do is not a good excuse, because nobody started out knowing how too.

As if this is not infuriating enough, the confront was met with much defense, the defense of insisting the ideas were already from her long ago, which I find strangely ridiculous. If the ideas were from you, then why did I see "your" ideas in my first draft instead of yours? I even met a bullet-proof cheek- the cheek of asking me to change the sentence structure in her work. Now what? After copying my work, you asked me to do more work for you?

She only apologised after persuasion from other group mates, and promised to change. But when you copy 3/4 of someone's work, to what extent will you change? The honest change- Change EVERYTHING, avoiding my sentence structures and vocabulary. The cheater change- Tweak sentences, use synonyms but retaining my essence.Intelligent people just choose the latter.


What are your brains for if you copy other people's ideas? Not trying to be offensive, but is this actually some type of culture? I don't know how many times I've seen companies copying ideas and mass producing products, then selling them at a ridiculously low price. Yes, you can sue. But who are you to do so if you're just a small and insignificant company who don't have the resources to go on a long legal war with a huge company that has Boston lawyers? Just an indignant small fry.

Just as I thought a life as a student will be less complex as life as an adult, selfish people have to go all the way to dash all my hopes. Why are people in the world so... selfish? I know I cannot expect everyone to be Jesus because selfishness is instilled in humans, but why do I need to tolerate such dishonestly, such disregard, such not-you-die-then-I-die mindsets in school? Yes, I am not a saint myself, if not I wouldn't be so bothered at "helping" classmates in such strange ways. Actually I didn't even helped her, she just took without my consent.

And this led me to think that... Is it because this is Temasek Junior College? Is it because this is the so-called Top 5 Junior College in Singapore? So people are so concerned about results they just don't give the process a damn. I know this is a fleeting statement, but I just sentimentally feel this way. Very lonely, very sick of people who steal my ideas.

I want to go Meridian now, I want an entirely new environment. At least I have my friends there, and I wouldn't meet people like this and get so... depressed and offended.