Industrial Attachment

My first week of attachment is finally over.. Just when I am so excited about going home at last from hall, the stuff in this part of the country isn't at all exciting. Friday night just passed by so quickly because I was stuck in some ridiculous jam from the minute I leave NTU to Bedok. 2 hours well spent on the road! HAA~ It's Saturday today and guess what, I'm at home staring at the damn laptop(which luckily I remembered to bring home!) or else, I would have turned into some stoneage statue. It's nearly 6pm now and yeap! almost the whole day is gone and I have not done anything much.. I guess it will be the same for me tomorrow as most of my Sundays are spent like that already! eeks! to my life..

This first week of attachment didn't really seem very very exciting. 1st 2 days were mostly spent on orientation. Then, it was reading of endless SOPs, and more of it! But luckily on the last day of the week, the technicians whom I am going to work with brought me up to the boilers which I had a better understanding of them. It's so COOL but literally hot as we were standing right next to 3 of them, boiling at almost 135 degrees! My colleague also brought me to the Waste Water Treatment Plant to have a better understanding of the whole plant and the systems there.. The smell wasn't as bad as I thought and while he and another guy were explaining to me and bringing me around the place, I suddenly had this thought: "I think I am seriously in the wrong course! Somehow, I can understand the systems there better and being there also made me more excited and happy!(minus the smelly part of course!)" But, too bad! Cos I am already half way through whatever I am doing now.

My supervisor told me that he will be giving me small assignments to do starting next week which I don't know if I should be happy or scared. Happy because I finally have something to do other then reading of the SOPs. Scared because I am not too confident about myself being up for the assignments. As we all know, I am in MAE not bcos I wan to and I am not too sure what I have learnt for the past 2 years to be truthful! I guess I just have to be as confident as I can and try to do as much as I can. =)

Cheers!