File 4 @ IMRE: “Poly Invaders”
Yup, there’s a File 4… Further on, I’m not too sure. This file marks the end of my 11th week at IMRE, which translates to week 9 at NUS and week 10 at NTU. But it’ll be end of my 13th week when u people read this. Yes, week 11 or 12 at the major universities. You should not be here, go back to study/mug/kill/ burn nights. I went overboard with confusing weeks with you people.
Recently, there had several batches of poly 2nd year students coming into IMRE for 3 month internship. Nope, this File does not criticize them but it’s more like I’m trying to understand the rationale of short term internship. I understand polys in Singapore decide to place students who had finished their 2nd year to be attached to companies for internship to gain experience, working and social. Taking context into internship at research institutes, which would be letting them gain research experience. I am going in circles.
Let me give you an idea on how is their daily routine: First, report to work. Second, go for morning tea breaks. Third, come back after lunch, and then slack at the small library that we have. Fourth, go for tea break at 1530h to steal all the biscuits that our coffee auntie had displayed for everyone. Fifth, relax at the library until it’s time to go off.
Did I mention about work? I did not. What I’ve understood is that they do not have much work in the first place. It does not justify letting them learn their supervisors experiments or projects for such a short time. (That took me 6 weeks to get a good idea. But till now, I’m still discovering things along the way.)
What about machines or techniques or physical experimenting? 3 months is not enough. This is exactly enough time for me to get a good understanding to be a lao jiao. Good experiment techniques require many trial and errors to be proficient. By the end of their internship, they would acquire just enough information to know how to do experiments properly. But too late, they are leaving already. The supervisors may have spent a lot of money, raw materials and effort coaching them, but getting nothing back in return. It does not help in the project at all.
It is not surprising that supervisors here just let them do some literature study and preliminary work for the projects. No real workplace responsibilities were given to them. Worse, I heard from my NTU counterparts that came from poly that the business poly students have offers from GV to sell movie tickets. They pay well though. But sell tickets for internship? Waste time leh. 6 month internship is much more fruitful. And then can continue for FYP project. Haha!
I started typing this since boarding train at Habourfront and have reached Sengkang already. Good luck for exams.
－异客拍客 @ IMRE －
Recently, there had several batches of poly 2nd year students coming into IMRE for 3 month internship. Nope, this File does not criticize them but it’s more like I’m trying to understand the rationale of short term internship. I understand polys in Singapore decide to place students who had finished their 2nd year to be attached to companies for internship to gain experience, working and social. Taking context into internship at research institutes, which would be letting them gain research experience. I am going in circles.
Let me give you an idea on how is their daily routine: First, report to work. Second, go for morning tea breaks. Third, come back after lunch, and then slack at the small library that we have. Fourth, go for tea break at 1530h to steal all the biscuits that our coffee auntie had displayed for everyone. Fifth, relax at the library until it’s time to go off.
Did I mention about work? I did not. What I’ve understood is that they do not have much work in the first place. It does not justify letting them learn their supervisors experiments or projects for such a short time. (That took me 6 weeks to get a good idea. But till now, I’m still discovering things along the way.)
What about machines or techniques or physical experimenting? 3 months is not enough. This is exactly enough time for me to get a good understanding to be a lao jiao. Good experiment techniques require many trial and errors to be proficient. By the end of their internship, they would acquire just enough information to know how to do experiments properly. But too late, they are leaving already. The supervisors may have spent a lot of money, raw materials and effort coaching them, but getting nothing back in return. It does not help in the project at all.
It is not surprising that supervisors here just let them do some literature study and preliminary work for the projects. No real workplace responsibilities were given to them. Worse, I heard from my NTU counterparts that came from poly that the business poly students have offers from GV to sell movie tickets. They pay well though. But sell tickets for internship? Waste time leh. 6 month internship is much more fruitful. And then can continue for FYP project. Haha!
I started typing this since boarding train at Habourfront and have reached Sengkang already. Good luck for exams.
－异客拍客 @ IMRE －
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