Keeping me awake and slogging away at 2am in the morning. I've never done that for anything else, this is amazing. Or maybe it's the fear of Mrs Foo that's keeping me on task to finish the remedial questions. And after half a dozen long drawn structured questions on genetic basis of variation, I figure remedial is useless for me.

If I've finished the requisite work, all I need is just the marking scheme and a quick review of questions. Not a careful inspection of each and every question. But more often than not, I don't, so I sit and stone instead. Useless too. :(

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Today's survey for GEP students was pleasant. Not because of the survey itself, mind you. Questions about a rather useless and non-existent School-Based Gifted Education programme were total rubbish. But instead, as Hong Ling says, it was nice to feel the buzz of many GEPers in the same room once more.

Guys, I've missed the idiosyncrasies that were stuff we took for granted in secondary school. I suppose I'm tired of being told to shut up and conform. I want to go back to testing the boundaries and be encouraged by everyone to do so. I want to question without being told it's out of syllabus, or to play Devil's Advocate and argue for the sake of arguing, just to raise a storm that made us all reconsider our stands.

If there's anything SBGE can do or should do, this is what they should do, not just throw us mindless "enrichment" that are a pale substitute for doing the enrichment yourself. The JC environment is just stifling, what we need is something to open us up. Good luck to our juniors, I hope they actually act on the feedback they got from us today. Though, knowing bureaucracy, it's probably locked up somewhere and will never again see the light of day.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I think being in Mrs Foo's bio remedial class is a blessing in disguise. I mean, looking at the sheer amount of work that she's throwing at us and all, I can feel myself improving rapidly. Even though I've done ZERO bio revision over the past few weeks.

She's dumping us with questions after questions after questions that by the time I'm done with them, I feel like competent to tackle any question without the notes at all. Plus they're all fairly decent questions that actually make sense. The smaller class environment also tends to make it easier to ask questions and get real answers without feeling shoehorned into just suppressing it.

So I'll have to work on the other subjects now!

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My eyes felt like shutting the whole of today, even coffee in the morning failed to ease the lead-lined eyelids. I'm not built for working till late at night, though it does help assuage whatever guilt I feel for not working at all. Plus I hate dropping the momentum once I've picked it up and night mugging feels good.

Then again, I have four more days of school before they tell us to mug on our own. Schitz.