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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
Rubbing shoulders with big name educators

By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat

Elmie is currently pursuing his masters degree in Communications and New Media. Supervised by Dr Lim Sun Sun, he has once again embarked on another thesis studying youths' critical media literacy in their Internet use. And he is still hoping to make a difference in society.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
Keeping the NUS spirit ablaze

By Chen Mingli - Chemical Engineering graduate 2008

I have always been amazed by how such colorful and beautiful creations could be products of scrap materials ranging from the usual recycled tin cans and cardboards, even to tangerine peels or rambutan shells, the choice of raw materials is only limited by the imagination. To me, it is truly a feat for the participating bodies to conceptualize and put into reality their ideas.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
Tired? The race goes on

By Jarrod Tan Cheng Hean - (ME4)

Mechanical components suffer from fatigue, and cracks start developing in the front hub after several runs. This is just one of the many lessons I have learnt at the Mechanical Engineering Department, helping to put the 2008 FSAE car together. Once cracks appear at the race track, it would be too late to fix them. So, we have to come out with alternative designs to prevent them happening in the first place.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
NUS Second Life, where the sky’s not the limit

By Seow Hui Hong - Honours year, Communications and New Media

I was really thrilled when the NUS Computer Centre started this unprecedented initiative in late 2007 and I was exhilarated to be able to join the pioneering team.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
Buying the Earth more time

By Jeremy Sor - 4th-year Communications and New Media major

“IF you want a plastic bag, you have to put 10 cents in this box,” said the cashier at the NUS Central Forum’s Co-op bookstore. I glanced down at the three thick textbooks I bought, wondering how I will lug them around the entire day without a plastic bag. Before I could say anything to the cashier, Mugant dropped 10 cents into the box. “It’s only 10 cents.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
My journey in NUS – just amazing

By Timothy Lin - 3rd–year, Faculty of Arts & Social Science (Economics)

MY first exposure to volunteering in NUS was when I joined my friend in her volunteering project -- MINDS Guillemard -- under the NUS Students' Union Volunteer Action Committee (NVAC). As I was nearing the end of my National Service then, I wanted to spend my time productively and to do something meaningful.

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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
A slice of student journalism

By Jeremy Sor - 4th-year, Communications and New Media

WHEN I received a call asking if I could share my experience as a student editor with a group of Korean student journalists from Kyung Hee University, I found myself caught in both elation and frustration. Elated, because I have always taken a keen interest in meeting new people and finding out how the other universities run their campus newspapers.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
A Walk To Remember...

By Hong Choon Chiet - Eusoff Hall resident, 4th-year, Medicine

It is a difficult task to pen one’s thoughts about life and even more so for the lamentably short years one spends in NUS. For medical students such as myself, life in NUS seems to revolve around endless medical postings to hospitals and exams after each posting. Life can be a little bleak for us medical types but as soon as I find myself descending into self-pity.
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Rubbing shoulders with big name educators - By Mohamed Elmie Bin Nekmat
A peek at life in NUS -- through the eyes of a start-up boss

By Wesley A Oxenham

I COME from Mauritius, from a modest family. I did my secondary studies in a school called College du Saint-Esprit which is located in the town of Quatre-Bornes where I lived. NUS was my choice and I am grateful to Singapore for the opportunity given to international students.
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A celebration of international diversity
A celebration of international diversity

By Wesley A Oxenham

Namaste, Guten Tag, Chào were some of the greetings heard at the Central Forum (4 Feb 2009). Students were ambassadors of their home countries for the day as they showcased the best of their countries to fellow students. Gracing the occasion was guest-of-honour NUS President Prof Tan Chorh Chuan along with the University's VIPs. Her Excellency, Minda Calaguian-Cruz, Ambassador of the Philippines to Singapore, was also present.
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Embracing darkness - NUS celebrates Earth Hour 2009
Embracing darkness - NUS celebrates Earth Hour 2009

By Chrissy Phoong

8:30pm on the 28th of March 2009 is most probably the only hour in our annual calendar when being a 'turn off' is accepted as an ethical superior than being a 'turn on'. NUS had its inaugural candlelight Earth Hour event on the 28th of March 2009, a beginning of a tradition I hope will never end.
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KR Steppers defend title as the top-three cheerleading team in Singapore

By Brian Tan Kwan Seng

Against all odds and growing competition from new and more experienced teams, the KR Steppers cheerleading team succeeded at maintaining their third position in the National Cheerleading Championship 2009 held at Jiak Kim Street on 22 March 2009.
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One Coin One Brick: A journey to remember

By Nguyen Bao Khanh

My journey with One Coin One Brick (OCOB) started three months ago with an email I received from Bich Hong, the project director, where she shared about her fund-raising initiative and asked if I would like to participate in the project.
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Cultural learnings of Student Exchange Programme

By Gong Pan Pan

In January 2008, I was one of the two NUS students on exchange to the Louvain School of Management under the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium a French-speaking university offering certain selected Masters level business courses conducted in English.
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Shining at business competition Peak Time 2009

By NUS Peak Time team

Organised by the Stockholm School of Economics, Peak Time 2009 - an international business competition - held in Riga, the capital of Latvia, proved to be a most fruitful and rewarding experience for our team (29 April - 2 May 2009).
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Doing research - Singapore style

By Martin Chew

Creeping around the edge of the pond, I stare intently at a swan which lazes by the lake at the Singapore Botanical Gardens. It has been two hours since its last meal and according to my extremely "precise" scientific timing, it should be releasing my much needed "substrate" in exactly... two and half minutes.
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The Entrepreneurship Amazing Race - Uncut

By Kenneth Tan

Life as one of the co-founders of startup ExoroTM - which aims to inspire others through education and social entrepreneurship - is certainly not easy, especially when it comes to organizing promotional activities.
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The Oxford Experience

By Reuben Ng

With excitement and trepidation, I left for a year-long Masters programme at Oxford—a place I saw too much of in Harry Potter.
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Practising Capoeira

By Lim Jing

Joining NUS Capoeira during the summer break, I quickly picked up the Ginga, a fundamental movement whereby the capoeiristas or practitioners of Capoeira) basically move from side to side by shifting their feet one behind the other. more
The NOC experience - Dispelling Rumours, Discovering Facts

By Chrissy Phoong

Back in August this year, news reporter for NUS student publication "The Ridge", Chrissy Phoong left for Sweden to embark on a one-year stint as part of the National University of Singapore Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme. more
Breaking down the stigma against mental illnesses

By Teo Peklyn

To a certain extent, the competitiveness of life in Singapore has made many persons less willing to share about any stress and anxiety they might feel, with the notion that it would be akin to exposing their vulnerabilities to all. more
An energy conference for the youth, by the youth

By Sarabjeet Singh

On the 17-18th of September 2009, Energy Carta successfully organised and hosted its second instalment of the Asian Youth Energy Summit (AYES). more
Making the most out of my internship experience

By Melissa Char

My internship with Singapore Condo (SgCondo) started six months ago after I received a call from the company asking if I was still interested in the job. more
My Experience as a Debator in the EU Debates

By Marcus Lim

Here are the snapshots of my little adventure in the recent inaugural NTU-NUS-SMU Business Schools Debate on whether Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the key to a competitive European Union (EU). more




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