{"id":5187,"date":"2020-05-29T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2020-08-19T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:37:06","slug":"losing-my-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/losing-my-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing my patience?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students are different.\u00a0 No doubt about that.\u00a0 But what I cannot stand the most is the clingy-super-dependent type with a sense of entitlement (I pay the fees so you need to serve me<\/em>).\u00a0 With such attitude, anyone can lose their patience any time.<\/p>\n

When I went to UK, the Malaysian government had to pay the fees more than what the local students aka Brits has to pay.\u00a0 \u00a0But, did I feel that I was more entitled to receive better services?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I never felt that way.\u00a0 In fact, I feel that I need to work harder because I need to learn as much as I could from among the best people in the field.\u00a0 My supervisor went to Oxbridge.\u00a0 Not having the opportunity to go there myself, I feel blessed to have someone who was trained by among the best intellectuals as my supervisor.\u00a0 His word “I suggest…”<\/strong> is a command that I would oblige without any single question.\u00a0 Some might say, it is just a suggestion and why do I have to go extra length to do it.\u00a0 Well, I respect him<\/strong> as my teacher.\u00a0 I don’t need to wait for him to say “I want you to do this” to take action.<\/p>\n

But things are different.\u00a0 Is it because of our cultural differences?\u00a0 I don’t have any answer to that.\u00a0 Yet, based on my observation having a student coming from similar culture like my supervisor does not guarantee that this student will be independent and less clingy.\u00a0 So, apparently there are similarities of clingy students across cultures.<\/p>\n

When I got an email from this student asking me to remind whatever deadlines that this student needs to comply, I was thinking back in my mind “Since when I have become this student’s PA?<\/em>” Again, it might has something to do with the intention of learning on a first place or the question of “Why”.<\/p>\n

When I was a student, I know clearly WHY<\/strong> I should learn.\u00a0 So, I aligned my intention\u00a0 on how can I learn the best I could from my teacher\/ lecturer\/ supervisor.\u00a0 I would figure out the strategies that I could use to learn the best I could from them.\u00a0 \u00a0It is always about myself.\u00a0 What should I do to learn?\u00a0 This is the question that I ask myself numerous times.<\/p>\n

I don’t<\/del> expect my students to be self-directed learners.\u00a0 \u00a0After all they are not primary nor secondary school students.\u00a0 I just wish that I could say what one of my mentors used to say to me “Kick your a** before somebody kick yours<\/strong><\/span>“.<\/p>\n

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Students are different.\u00a0 No doubt about that.\u00a0 But what I cannot stand the most is the clingy-super-dependent type with a sense of entitlement (I pay the fees so you need to serve me).\u00a0 With such attitude, anyone can lose their patience any time. When I went to UK, the Malaysian government had to pay the … Continue reading Losing my patience?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}