Analysis Of Time Required For Travelling To NUS

Yay...It is a new year...It means I will be older by another year...

School is going to start soon and here I am doing nothing much during the holidays and totally not prepared for the early lectures at 8am and 9am. Since I live pretty far from NUS, I have to give myself an estimated time of 2h for travelling. As I am someone who bathes before going to school, it will be another 15min. So lets break down the time required to go to school.

Time needed to travel to school from the other end of Singapore.
Bathe + washing up + etc - 15 ~ 30min
Walking to MRT - 15min
Taking the MRT - 1h 15min
Waiting for shuttle bus + travelling to destination - 30min (over estimation but it is to ensure early arrival)

Total time - 2h 30min

Assuming a lecture of 8am, I will have to wake up before 5.30am.
A lecture of 9am, will require me to wake up before 6.30am.

While these does seem to be normal for primary school, secondary school and junior college, it just doesn't work for university. Time spent in school is long, my upcoming timetable will have 2 lessons that end at 8pm. By the time I reach home and finish bathing, it will be 10.30pm. Not funny... With CCAs, we will be overworked and those are the reasons why waking up so early is really tough for university students. Let's hope I can survive through this semester again, though I would prefer to also do well.

Many people ask me, why don't I stay in school. Currently, there are 3 options for school accommodation namely, residence, halls and residential colleges. I will analyse the pros and cons of the different types of accommodations in NUS in a separate post.