Welcome to Singapore Polytechnic, the place where I spent 3 years of my life earning my diploma. ^^;
Oh btw, if anyone looking at the above picture thought I just graduated, I'm not actually. I graduated 5 donkey years ago. ('~')
I was an engineering student from the school of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE). Not really a subject I’m particularly interested in but that’s what fate put me into.
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This is T12 where all the laboratories are. Other than circuits and resistors, they do biological experiments, nuclear research and cloning as well.
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This is block T14 where I attended most of my lectures and tutorials. Level 1 is actually the basement, level 2 is the lecture theaters, level 3 is the exhibition room of student’s project works, level 4 to 8 are all computer labs now. During my time there used to be normal classrooms in there but they eventually renovated it to PC labs.
Btw, there’s no block 13 in the campus? Not sure why. Superstitious?
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This is how a lecture theater looks like. This is where I spent of my time sleeping listening to lectures. If the class gets too boring, the mates and I will just make our exit and proceed to the nearby gaming café for a game of counter-strike. Those were the good old days. ^^;
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There used to be a big lecture theater here, now all that is left of it is an empty plot of land and a staircase leading to nowhere.
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A train station is just outside the school. The design is very nice, one of the best looking in Singapore. During my first year, it was still been built.
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This used to be my favourite hangout in campus, The Self Access Learning Centre (SALC), a place when you can use the Internet and download stuffs that you shouldn’t be downloading in school. When I was a student, I didn’t have broadband at home so I do all my Internet surfing at school. They should really get someone to change the sign, looks shabby.
This machine on the right is where you scan your student pass and book a station. Once your time is up, it will automatically log you out. If you don’t leave, security will arrive and throw you out.
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This is Food Court 4, one of my favourite eating-places in school. Too bad the place is closed as I went on a weekend.
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Yummy Singapore food on the wall.
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This is Food Court 5 where we have KFC and Pizza Hut. Seldom eat here as it’s usually crowded with people.
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We even have our own bakery and 7-eleven. Not sure whether the 7-eleven opens 24 hours though.
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Food Court 3 is another frequently visited canteen. It doesn’t look this nice before they renovated the place.
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We have McDonald’s as well. Seldom eat here as well as it is too far from my school.
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Final thoughts
It had been 5 years since I graduated and much in the school has changed since I left. New building were built, old buildings got torn down. Looking back I enjoyed my 3 years in Singapore Poly. My grades weren’t that great, I’m pretty much an average person. I particularly enjoyed my third year and doing my gradation project with a friend. We got an ‘A’ and I’m real proud of it. ^^;
One of the things I also noticed is that it seems most students own a laptop now. I saw many people using it in the food court and study areas. During my time not many uses laptop in campus as there wasn’t any wireless Internet back then.
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