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CSUS

Due to the volleys of reports, assignments and tests (let's call this RATs, since science people adore short forms so much until we have problems in remembering the original full forms), this blog is left to fallows. Ok, what about some something to share which resonates in most of our hearts?

With all the RATs haunting us, we kinda developed symptoms that frequently relapse in every semester. Let's group all these related symptoms under one name: Chronic Stressed Utarian Syndrome, CSUS in short (like I said we science freaks love acronym so much), pronounced as "scissors".

Here is the analysis of CSUS:

Symptoms (mild)
1. Insomnia
2. Short-term memory
3. Flu-like symptoms, let's call it H_utN_ut (UT as in UTAR), or "Hut Nut".
4. Paranoia
5. Trouble in focusing
6. Lost of time perception
7. Depression
8. Immensely strong urge to play (eg. L4D spree)
9. Slight insanity
10. Frequent Facebooking
11. PTS - Pre-/Post-Test Syndrome - extremely crazy before and after tests
12. Irritability
13. Extremely papyrophobic (fear of papers)
14. Very sensitive ears (to collect test hints/tips)
15. Unusually high affinity for beds and pillows
16. Telling extremely lame jokes
17. Laugh at anything, even it is not funny at all
18. Drama/Movie spree

Symptoms (severe)
1. Hallucination
2. Schizophrenia
3. Incoherent speech

Causes
1. Abuse of brain power
2. Incessant RATs
3. Unrelenting lecturers
4. Universiti Tak Ada Rehat - it says it all

Treatment
1. Gaming
2. Shopping
3. Eating
4. Sleeping
5. Taking phytochemicals that allow a person to disconnect from the harsh world and cruel reality
6. God's blessings, lots of them
7. Less RATs
8. Facebooking
9. More time
10. More more more time.

Another version of this disease is the ASUS, not the computer, but Acute Stressed Utarian Syndrome, which is much serious but the symptoms are of shorter duration.

So far, this syndrome is still under investigation. Probable tell-tale signs are:
1. Shock
2. Zombie-ness
3. Loss of hope

Anybody wants to add on to the lists?

*Thanks to vivienne for her suggestion of RATs.

Discover The Brilliant Mind In You

Dr. Piotr Wozniak was right. Everyone including YOU can enjoy the blessing of empowering knowledge. Believe it or not, there are simple defined methods towards rock-solid knowledge based on science and facts. All you need to do is......

• Be thirsty and hungry for knowledge - In order to acquire knowledge, you must first have strong desire for them. If you have a rather weak and fading motivation for them, you can just forget about reading the following lines.
• Know what you really need to know - The earlier you realize this, the faster you could blow up your entire shelf of ill-picked books. Extermination of books containing none of your area of studies should be executed right away.
• Identify the "true" sources of information - Have you discovered the power of the internet? Oops..., WRONG question! I should have asked: Have you utilized your new-found knowledge to its full extent? It is very true that loads of information can be found throughout the web, textbooks, journals, etc. But, you need to seriously pick only information of the highest priority.
• Repeat to remember - Please........please DO NOT trust theories claiming that you can develop long-lasting memory effortlessly. Everything etched in your long-term memory must somehow be constantly rehearsed from time to time. Otherwise, they will sooner or later be blown away by the wind.
• Use imagery - That part of our brain called the visual cortex, the brain center that processes visual stimuli can greatly reduce our learning time in areas especially anatomy, chemistry (yup phytochemistry too!), biology and many more. Now you know why "A picture is worth thousands of words."

Most of you might say, "Siapa tak tahu cara-cara ini. Kita dah tahu awal-awal lagi. Cikgu dah lama ajar kita semua." Think again. How many of us have truly realized and acquired these HOW TO LEARN skills? So...., what are you guyz waiting for? Bring your hidden-for-too-long brilliant, intelligent nature to life NOW! Though some of you might be skeptical about these, but hey, you have got nothing to lose. In the end, you would either gain SOMETHING or NOTHING.

IMA Report 2 - FT-IR

1. Report due on Wednesday (8 July 2009).

2. Ignore the 0.25% reading since it is way out of the curve.

Have a nice day.

Regards,
Your Course Rep