been busy with catching up school work until i nearly forgot something that is more important than studying. my health. got a slight shock yesterday when my bad headache hit and i was feeling a little warmer than usual. too warm for comfort. throughout the remaining of the day i kept spamming water despite having to make way more trips to the toilet to pee. didn't do anything productive but slept and rest a lot. but you know what? not guilty. probably because if i really fall sick, the guilt of not taking care of my health will be so much greater than wasting a day away without revision.
so back to today. i have lots of work to catch up and CNY is round the corner. guess the calendar and my body highlighted my need to take a slight breather for now. at least until after the first few days of CNY. shall not stress too much over undone work or what not.
however, the main thing i wanted to highlight today isn't exactly those. i want to talk about my lecturers. like the title of this post mentioned, they are not teachers.. so expect a hell lot of difference. i think ever since coming to college, a lecturer is defined as one who is also a teacher. what's the difference? well.. a lot.
a lecturer teach for the sake of teaching most of the time. he/she will just ramble through all the information at a speed he/she deem fitting regardless of the students' struggles to catch every piece. a lecturer will find his/her voice loud enough if he/she can hear himself/herself. he/she will murmur or what.. whether the students can hear it doesn't concern him/her. a lecturer doesn't monitor your progress very closely. he/she doesn't care if you fail to pass an assignment or what not.. for at the end of the day, most of them would just teach, mark papers, give you a grade.
well, obviously a teacher is way more than a lecturer. a teacher cares for your progress. a teacher ensures no student is left behind. a teacher bugs you for your own good. ohh man.. i am starting to appreciate the teachers who have taught me even more. but for now.. i think that is just life in college.
no point regretting or what not. i just thought of all these again recently. as i progress more as an undergraduate i see more lecturers than teachers who are teaching my modules. students are thrown to college to struggle and emerge victorious at the end of 3 or 4 years. along the way, we can only hope we meet more teachers than lecturers. until next time then, cheers.
