My Two Cents on Project Work
how do i even begin writing this. i guess now would be a good time to do so...
what a year it had been. last year, around this period of time, we were still getting to know each other, after receiving our groupings. they say time flies when you spend it with people who bring you joy… and really, it did.
thank you. for the company, the chats, the debates, the food, the meetings, the chaos, the laughter and the memories.
i am very grateful, to have you guys as my pw group mates. controversial to what many people believe, project work does not necessarily need to be so dreadful or feared. my experience with ny052 is the perfect testimony to that. to be honest, i miss our discussions and meetings. and that’s not because i like to do the reports or research, but i felt (and still feel) that the time we had spent was honestly irreplaceable by any other activity. from laughing over the topics we randomly pick up, to how we tried to squeeze our very last brain cells to come up with more elaboration for points, it was all made more enjoyable with you guys.
although most people care more about the grades on results day, what i was more interested was, whether we were going to receive comments regarding our presentation or written report. but no, none came. i really wanted closure to project work, which was to know where i went wrong, where we went wrong, and where we can improve on; not receiving a letter through the school portal.
what good do grades have, if you don’t reflect on how you reach where you are, and plan how you are going to proceed?
it had slipped my mind, that for all subjects, no feedback would be given after a major examination. alas, i thought pw would be different, and i had a glimmer of hope.
maybe i was yearning for too much. maybe a lack of self confidence resulted in me needing comments from the assessors on how to improve. but at the end of the day, don’t we all want to improve? to be a better version of ourselves? i’d certainly want to.
my tutor told me that whatever project work had instilled in us, were not applicable in the real world. and i see some truth in what he said. close to nothing in the rubrics will make you a fantastic presenter in the real world. and so, my perceived closure to project work turned out to be pointless. he went on to give his personal opinion about how the syllabus has changed, over the past 15 years, but it still retains some sort of rigidity, which does not seem to fit the education we need in this day and age.
whatever you feel of project work, is your personal choice. i am not here to sway your believes.
what i should have felt, instead of all these, was the sense of immense relief, because i had such awesome grp mates, and for that i only have my pw tutor to thank. till date, i still feel they are under recognised for all the work they put in throughout the year for us to have the ability to get a decent grade.
thank you again, ny052. and may the memories live on.
