Yeah, it's the end of classes for today. Pretty interesting experience over here. Instead of monster-sized 100-minute blocks for lectures, we have nice juicy blocks of no more than 50 minutes each. This allocation of time seems near optimal—the professor teaches less per lesson, shorter lessons mean greater breaks interspersed, and all these add up to a refreshing experience for learning in general. Studies have shown that having small but frequent breaks are much more useful in aiding content retention, and it seems that that is what they are practising here. This, added to the diversity of the topics that are taught, allows the mind to be fully utilised in such a way that synergises the energies within, causing a result that is greater than the sum of the individual constituents.
Now, if I conscientiously review the material that I've learnt through the day, there is almost little effort required to retain all the knowledge learnt. Evil...
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50 min lectures are effective meh... my sku has this system but coz e LT takes like 15 min to settle down, there seems to be no more time for lecture... >.< anw, do post ur rmates photos soon yeah? add oil for ur studies. =)
Well... the time slots are slated for an hour each, but the professors usually stop about 10 minutes early so that we can transit to the next location.
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