Yes, the first semester for 04/05 session have just started. I actually missed this place, two weeks break, at home, with nothing much to do made me eager to start doing something!! Classes have started, which most of them are ok. Though I had a problem with one of my classes.

Well, I went to the Islamic Ethics first class, and the lecturer ‘adviced’ the first year students to drop the subject, as from her experience, most first years don’t make it in this class. I met her after class and said I would like to stay in this class, and after much negotiation, she replied in the most sarcastic tone I ever heard “Don’t come see me if you fail the class”. I was thinking, “What??!!! You don’t have to talk in that tone!” Here I am, eager to learn new things and I got the most discouraging lecturer ever!!! I thought I was going to be stubborn and stay in that class not matter what but then my mind started thinking…What if she’s going to deliberately fail me just out of spite?? Out of “See I told you so” pseudo-authority?? What if she’s going to ignore me when I attempt to answer her questions in class??? What if she won’t even look at me?? So many what ifs and getting negative answers…I cannot risk it!! I cannot stay in that class!!

So I left, and went to change section, got a different lecturer, which unfortunately told me the same thing, unsuitable for first years. Only, she said it in a much BETTER and encouraging manner that I forgot to get angry over it! I cooled down and come to think of it, maybe it is a bit too hard for 1st years. In the end, I took up a different subject altogether, a subject somewhat familiar to what I had learnt in school, Intro to Fiqh. I hope I will do well!!!

To be continued…..