I know nothing interesting in the title (yet) but i hope at least a person will take some lessons from my experience.
We begin with what should happen during my fyp period and what happened instead.
So, as students we are not allow to choose which lecturer we want to be our supervisor. Before this, you may choose but some lecturers weren't choose by any students so they said, student's choice is bias even we paid their monthly check. The fault is still ours. The new system since a few years back, it depends on luck, where do your name end up. Different lecturers have different interest and different expertise. It means, some prefer clinical study, some experiments, some in pharmtech, some in survey, some in chemist. It totally depends on your supervisor. Then your topic, some lecturers already prepared for you, some will ask your suggestions or task you to find your own, some will provide some options. This is the basic thing esp if you're my junior, you need to be prepared.
SV > Type of study > Topic
For my case, i got a pharmtech lecturer who had experience in all the 2 types of study available. (Experiment, Survey) Even in class we only learn about experiment and survey (clinical survey or based on population kind of study). Of course my friends and I were eager to do experiment. Then he suggested this and that. We were okay. First phase, you need to do proposal. How hard can it be?
2 weeks in the new sem, news broke about our SV will be moving to another college. We discussed with him, he said its okay, he will move next sem and will still guide us. He will make sure we get the suitable lecturer.
Semester 5 was the busiest sem ever. My credit hour was 23, with 2 chemist subjects, 2 weeks retail attachment and 2 to 3 labs in a week and 3 pbl sessions. Not to forget Pharmacotherapy 3 that includes endocrine system, skin, musculoskeletal and ent. (im not okay)
Ok lets stop there and continue this fyp thingy after almost a month pending this post in draft 😂
So proposal. We were given a sample from last year and we refer most of the thing from there. Then our sv became unavailable for quite sometime. Its frustrating because you're eager to do it properly and you see some of your friends getting feedbacks from their sv. Just fyi, we had 2 weeks away fr campus due to practical. We came back 5 weeks before finals and need to catch up with a lot of other things. Of course shits got delayed up until a week or a few days before presentation. We got good marks for proposal writing because he just gave it without reading it and honestly, totally being honest, some other sv(s) do that. You see, you can be very committed to your projects but your sv could be someone opposite. You can't simply barged into your sv's office like its your room tho. If you have sv who cares for your project in good way, please commit to understand better about doing projects and thesis.
The next sem, i got other sv who was asked by my previous sv. So this B sv looks committed at first.
It's roller coster from this point up till the end.
After mco was announced, my sv pooof in the thin air for....hurm...almost 2 months. Most of the work i did was based on other friends and mostly, myself. From the title to the last page. Imagine, even the title he didn't even careeeeeee!! Hear my part first, i had to nag and complaint to the head of subject about my sv for him to give me tiny of his attention.
He bailed for almost 2 months. When office opened, he came back like nothing happened. He gave excuses such as 'personal issues', no one could reached him even lecturers online.
The correction that i begged for years for it, he highlighted some paragraph and instead of giving points about the content, he said about how i construct my sentences. I mean, thats something but when you were doing shits yourself without proper guidance, you need pov about the content 🙃 Even to get those paragraphs, i asked the head of subject to ask him personally about it.
He didn't say sorry.
He didn't wish for our presentation.
He didn't even care to finalise our poster before viva.
In the end, after those stressful nights, anxious, and the anxiety to complete everything for good, i managed to get an A. Thank you to everyone who helped and guide me along the way.
Heres some sv you need to be caution:
- the one thats new w fyp.
- the one thats constantly changing titles, not easy to agree w your opinions
- not checking your work, try to ask other sv's opinions. Dont give them the whole piece. Try the part you really really need help.
Dont be too vocal about your issues in bad way, try to negotiate and ask assistance from different people who have experience like seniors or your subj leader.
I guess thats all i have to share for now. Good luck to those doing your fyp!
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