[welcome] to funkygrad
 
 

 

Environmentalism: Is Green the New In?
Home Is Where The Heart Is
The Good Fight
The ‘Sandwiched Students’
Alone In The Dark
Creeping Apprehension of an Uptight Undergrad
MicroSerfdom
Do we look down on SIM students?
Grouses in NTU: It's all about transparency
The shameless wake-up-your-idea muse to Foreign Talent
Varsity for Education or Style?
The U-Hurdle: ready to make the leap?
She waved at me & I said goodbye
Can we understand our foreign lecturers?
University Fee Hike: the call for greater transparency
The Impact of Corporatisation
Blog Trouble
Singapore's Foreign Legion
Mandarin schmandarin...
Dieting Sucks
 
Singapore Ain’t Big Enough For The Four Million Of Us
Do You Procrastinate?
…And you earned credits for doing that?
Study Smart
The Philosophy of Exams
Essay Writing
Studying : Improving Your Memory
Catching Up on My Studies
Choosing the Right University
Stress Management
Attending Lectures : Notes Taking
 
Wanna Be A Public Relations Guru? Win This Award First
Getting it done - Writing your resume
Can vacation jobs ever be interesting?
Not your average odd-job labourers
Skills for Graduates in the 21st Century
Woking in the Finance Industry: Requirements and Skillsets
Job Seeking Woes
Strategize Your Career Search
 
Should I play hard to get?
How can I make her feel loved?
Turning buddies to girlfriends?
Love: Feeling or Choice?
Doing how much is too much?
The Prospects of a Long-Distance Relationship
25 Years Old & Never Dated Before
My boyfriend is 2-timing a married woman
Different person after break-up?
Who to date?
He's not interested anymore
Valentine’s Day Meditations
The Love Attention Seeker
The Waiting Game
Is She Interested?
Can A Girl Love Another Girl?
How to sustain a conversation?
How do I go after a girl who's attached
Why Guys Love Going to the Gym
7 Men & 6 Women to Avoid
If This Doesn't Work... Move On
Posty-coital confusion
What I want for my first date
Would You Dump an NS boy for a Uni Man?
So what if I don't have a boyfriend again?
Singing a single tune
You Gotta Be A Selfish Lover (sometimes)...
Adam and Steve: Different, not deviant
So what if I don’t have a boyfriend?
I don't love him & I feel guilty
 
Going green is all the rage these days. And in case you haven’t noticed, “eco-friendliness” is the new buzz-word in town.
What is it about Singapore that will immediately evoke stirrings of the heart so unshakeable that it can only be known as home, sweet home?
It’s been a long and grueling term & summer break is finally here! Months of bumming and slacking await. What's in store for us students?
The Budget annoucement took care of students below 20 years old & adult learners. What about undergraduates? Have we been overlooked?
It’s Saturday night at one of the hottest clubs in town. The dance floor is packed with hundreds of sweaty bodies, jostling for space.
Is that innate dubiety of the value of your tertiary education intermittent?
IVLE revolutionised my whole world. I am defunct as a University student without my laptop & wireless internet connection.
It seems that students studying in a private university do not seem to have much worth to the society.
This year, the folks at NTU had plenty of fodder to assert our opinions. We examine the essence of the peeves.
We discover 9 things the uproar over foreign talent has revealed about Singapore(ans).
Are we more bent on looking pretty than scoring distinctions?
The Angler Club sits around a five- meter radius pond all day, pretending to fish.
The world is sick, and it agitates me to think, in detail, about the horrific things that happen on a daily basis.
We publish an open letter by a certain NTU student on the language barrier between foreign lecturers & students.
We bring you the unhappiness & complaints from NUS students on the latest fee hike.
We reflect the voices at the ground and explore possible implications from running universities like an enterprise.
It is all over the Internet. Blogging can get you into trouble.
It is hard not to notice the presence of foreign students on campus. Everywhere you turn you're bound to see a student from China or India.
My lack of fluency in Mandarin is irrelevant to my culture or heritage, simply because my forefathers never spoke the language. I am a Teochew by ethnicity.
It was a painful road to discovery, but like the cereal that needs milk to go along with, I needed my carbohydrates.
 
Saw Lidong shares the finer details about studying in Australia
It's a month to the exams where sloth levels are at its peak. We tell you how to resist the 4th deadliest sin.
Whilst we are in the midst of a module-bidding frenzy, we scoured for quirky electives which you can have fun with.
Doing well in uni is about scoring better than others. We share the most essential tips to beat the rest of your mates to scoring that elusive A.
Exams spell psychological trauma in the mind, an emotional struggle in the heart and pangs of anxiety.
Some lecturers prefer to give the topic while some prefer to let us choose our own topic. When I am given a topic the first thing I'll do is to read and underline the key terms.
Have you seen those 'Mega Memory' advertisements that boast to help improve your memory? I was so curious about it that I went to read up on their techniques to improve memory.
I've failed all my 1st semster subjects and in any case, perhaps I was unprepared for the exams or got my exam techniques wrong.
Increasingly, firms are willing to hire employees not just on the degree they possess (which in itself nevertheless is very important), but also the qualities of the person in total, such as if you can demonstrate that you have initiative, leadership, integrity and so on.
Just wondering how you cope with life's stresses? I feel that there are just too many things to do every single day and am wondering how you manage your life?!
Reviewing what has been taught in the previous lecture helps to get us ready for the one that is going to start. This is the difficult part because most of us lack the discipline to do so.
 
We speak to Tabatha Maitland from SMU who was runner-up in the Asia Pacific PR Student of the Year Award.
Thank the heavens for Funkygrad, clueless students seeking jobs. You are about to be schooled in the finer art of resume writing.
Read about jobs SMU students engage themselves in. It's nothing dodgy & a tad too squeaky clean perhaps.
Part-time jobs can be more than just giving tuition or standing behind sales counters. Chiew Han Joo and Kelly Ong of Nanyang Chronicle speak to three students with unusual side jobs.
The changes which are taking place in the worlds of graduate employment will have far-reaching effects on the careers which graduates pursue - if indeed we can still call them careers in any conventional sense.
What does it take for a fresh graduate to seek a career in the Finance Industry? An FAQ compiled for graduates.
HOW does a fresh graduate ever get ANY experience when NO ONE would even hire us in the first place? It gets so frustrating and I am starting to wonder what is wrong with me!
Investigate Possible Career Opportunities once you have determined which interests, rewards and skills are important to you, the next step is to learn which positions will meet your needs, and focus on these opportunities.
 
I know deep down, he isn't made for me but I can't help thinking that he has a lot of potential and because of that, I want to give it a shot.
She says I am not doing much. But I'm already giving her 95 per cent of my free time, taking her out on expensive dining & being her chauffer. It is really driving me nuts!
Can your buddy be your girlfriend? Will girls ever consider a guy buddy as boyfriend since they know everything about him already?
Do we decide to fall in love or do we just fall in love based on how we feel?
Is it normal to go out of my way to do things for a girl I'm interested in? I also don't want to scare her off by doing too much.
It's not a good feeling knowing that there's a fair chance that my girlfriend will be leaving for long term. What should I do?
I am quite worried that I'm still single at the age of 25 & had never dated before. Am I worrying too much & too early?
My boyfriend calls this married woman all kinds of love names and she in turn says she loves him.
When the girls love you, they say they'll put in all the effort, but when they don't love you anymore, they can be totally different, is this true?
I've got a couple of admirers. My problem is I don't have the racing heart-sweaty palms-shy-speechless syndrome with them like I have with my crushes.
You tell yourself that if you really like him, you should just let go and hope he will find happiness. Is this the best solution?
V-day has degenerated into a flaming train-wreck of obnoxious consumerism driven by equally perfidious marketing.
Have you been feeling neglected? Why is he paying less attention to you? How do you get attention from your other half?
Done so much for her with less than positive results? What's new? Is it wise to wait for her?
Ever been interested in someone and yet fail to link up romantically in the end? How do you tell that she's not interested?
You are a girl & you have a crush on another girl in school. Is it wrong to love her?
Chitchats with that potential boyfriend or girlfriend fizzles out after 5 mins. How do you deal with it?
After two decades of sitting by the phone & wondering "will he or won't he call?", Ivy Ong-Wood has loads of sympathy for those in that situation & shares her insights.
There is something gratifying about going to the gym, crunching abs in the company of total strangers.