edit: at 1.38am today (Thursday, 25 Nov) in bed, i struck gold on what are the points to the compulsory essay question were. all while lying in bed trying to close my eyes, it suddenly occurred to me the very six points i had written down on my green post-it to remember on the contributing factors to low fertility rate.
and since the paper was already handed in seven hours ago, here are the six points just for my sake:
- child survival rates
- ideation change: rationality, secularisation
- delayed marriages
- contraceptives
- economic factors: second demographic transition
- individualism
all nicely written on my green post-it note, which didn't even surface up in my head when i was trying to answer that question. instead i had to put in other things like idealisation and glorification of marriage, flight from marriage, female labour force participation rate and other things that really aren't straight forward. amazing.
i rather not know and forgot how to answer then this moment of enlightenment. this isn't even funny at all.
functionalist/marxist: then again, someone has to take the brunt of the bad luck anyway.
individual agency: i really really really need to learn how to answer questions properly. or at least answer it to as close as to what it wants the answer to be.
structural problem: or questions should be more direct, less flopsy, stop beating around the bush and do a little tea dance; and get to the point.
i need to learn how to answer questions properly.
(and i say this for my last out of four papers this semester, which is already my third in school. how brilliant.)
Labels: jittery, peeved, school
