detox

My female owner feels that she needs a mental detox after being among her classmates today. Somehow, Tuesdays seem to get her down really badly. It is not the long hours that leave her feeling emo and emo. It’s the negative vibes she absorbs from her coursemates during the day, vibes that creeps up on her and suffocates her by the end of the day.

Today, her coursemates were complaining about the poor quality of the programme and how their cohort had been shortchanged in terms of poor teaching, narrow syllabus and dodgy placements.

While she can choose to ignore their gripes, there is no denying that the programme had been far from satisfying and that there were grains of truth in their complaints. After a short off-loading to her Economist Fren (my female owner was pleasantly surprised that for all his male-brain logic, he was actually quite empathetic and comforting), she realised that the core issue surrounding her unhappiness about her current externship is her unmet expectations of what an externship should entail.

The school set such high standards for students to meet, but is incompetent in fulfilling its part of the bargain. Like why do you make people clock X number of hours, when the quality of your placement sites/ supervisors is compromised? Why accept so many students in the first place, if externships are far and few between? Why are new requirements not communicated to the students?

Ah… so many dodgy areas to probe. Students are paying more than the cost of their school fees for administration negligence. My female owner has not met a happy student in a long while.

Detox anyone?