Venturing into Ngee Ann Polytechnic... ( Open house 2014 )

Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Just hearing those three words alone motivates me to do well academically. Ngee Ann has always been my dream school since sec 2 or 3. Why is that so? Well it's because Ngee Ann is the best school to study the course of my choice. What is it you may ask? Read on and find out :)

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I attended the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Open house on 11 Jan with my friend's and my family. When my family and I reached the campus, we were immediately greeted by friendly and welcoming students with brochures in their hands, ready to be given to incoming guests. 

Walking into the school while occasionally glancing at the map, I was bowled over by the vast size of the school. The campus was a conglomerate of buildings, ranging from the different academic schools, to the different eateries, Koufu, Toastbox, you name it. 

I first headed to the convention center with my mum to attend the parents' seminar, where they talked about the admission to the Poly, whether poly education is right for the child, etc. The thing that I like about the seminar was that it wasn't propagandic. They did not just talk about how beneficial poly education is but also to see if the child suits the poly or JC education. 

After the seminar, I went to meet my friend and his family there. Hadn't met that guy for some time, so glad that I got to catch up with him a little bit. 


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We had lunch before heading off to the first academic school- School of Engineering 
            




There, we went to different booths of the different courses to find out more about them. Some booths actually allow us to try out some things that they do! 

For example, the booth of the Diploma in Aerospace Electronics allows guests to try navigating a simulated aircraft. Awesome experience for aspiring pilots :D 

Does this look familiar to you? If you're guessing that it's an F1 car, then you're right. It was not built by some experienced professional, but by engineering students. 

Engineering is an innovative and futuristic field, isn't it? You get to be like Tony Stark, who engineered a computer-programmed, iron-coated suit. Someday, you may just be able to engineer something that will make you famous, why not? it's possible! 


Most of us are unfamiliar with the campus, so there were shuttle buses to take us around. What a great deal of convenience! Ngee Ann, I'm giving you huge thumbs up! 



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We boarded the bus and alighted at the School Of Infocomn Technology next. 





This is the place where the heart of IT lies, and certainly where computer enthusiasts would love to be in. 

I got to program movements for a robot using a programming software there. Programming was foreign to me, so it was a great first-hand experience. Of course, I wasn't asked to program it in a complicated way, that would be like asking a beginner to beat a black belt in a fight. 


The robot seems tensed and anxious that it's gonna be programmed by me haha... 

Time to show off your cool new moves XD 

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Finally, it was time to visit the school that I've always wanted to check out - School Of Film And Media Studies 

If you're someone with lots of imaginations and would love to express yourself (like I do), then this is probably the school that's right for you :) 

There were two tours that we could embark on -

1) Advertising Public Relations/ Mass communications tour  

 2) Film, sound, Video/ Digital Visual effects tour 

I joined the queue for the first tour where we were guided by a Mass Comm student. 

We were first directed to a conference room where a lecturer from the Diploma in Advertising and Public Relations talked about what the course is all about. She explained that Advertising is the spreading of information to the masses while Public Relations is about convincing your audiences in a persuasive way by revealing the good qualities about your product or idea ( Correct me if I'm wrong ). The open house itself, is a form of Public Relations. 

Both of them will then merge together to form a bundle called, Marketing Communications. 

The Media office was our next stop. There, Mass communication students were extremely engrossed in their writing for the school's website, magazines, and newspaper as they rushed to meet the datelines for the respective stories that they cover.

A lecturer introduced some of the school's media platforms such as NpTribune, the school's newspaper, fully written by Mass Communication students.....

...the school's entertainment magazine, HYPE 

    

I learnt that they actually get to interview REAL celebrities face to face! How cool is that?! Well, that's part and parcel of being a student journalist, right? 

With the advent of New Media, what is the media without its internet platform? So let's not forget TheUrbanWire, the school's website covering news on entertainment and lifestyle. 

 

Ever wanted to be a radio Deejay and broadcast on the latest happenings? Well, you can with RADIOHEATWAVE! 

As it was getting late, I decided to just visit one more school, and my last stop was the School Of Business and Accountancy

There are 7 diploma courses, but I'm only interested in one of them. Some of you guys may think, why limit your choices? Well, who says so?  

The diploma that I have interest in is the Diploma in Business Studies and it has 7 SPECIALISATIONS to choose from :

- Entrepreneurship 

- Finance 

- Human capital management

- International Business 

- Marketing

- Marketing communications

- Psychology 

- Service Management 

So I'm actually broadening my choices by picking a well-rounded diploma course. 

A hilarious and unexpected incident that happened was that a Business Communication teacher there said that I'm really matured in the questions I ask. WOW, really? ._. You got to be kidding. 

Me, matured? That's not what many of my friends normally define me as. 

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The open house was really worth going and I will absolutely visit it again next year. I sacrificed three of my tuition classes on that day, but I didn't regret it. 

After much consideration, I've finally made up my mind and decided to set my heart on the Diploma in Mass Communications.

I realised that although the other courses seem appealing to me, mass comm is where my passion lies, and it's a field of study that suits me the most. 

I really enjoy sharing stories with the world and I'm always curious about social happenings around the globe, which explains my enthusiasm in Social Studies in school. 

Immersing myself into the story, getting to know about it from different perspectives, and finally writing and reporting about it is what I would love to do. 

Even in my personal life, I'm always eager to know what's bothering my friends, reasons behind someone's breakup, etc. and often times I would voluntarily dig into them and try to resolve the various issues. I'm naturally someone who takes action.