ME - a case of disconnected academic / Shahrul Amri Ab Wahab
Last January marked my 12ᵗʰ year as an academic at UiTM. Just like most, if not all, of my colleagues, my journey as a lecturer is indeed colourful. Surely it is not a walk in the park, but it is also not an uphill battle that would drive me straight to a mental asylum. Nevertheless, unlike many of...
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my.uitm.ir.919432024-03-06T15:05:25Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/91943/ ME - a case of disconnected academic / Shahrul Amri Ab Wahab Ab Wahab, Shahrul Amri Collections of general literature Last January marked my 12ᵗʰ year as an academic at UiTM. Just like most, if not all, of my colleagues, my journey as a lecturer is indeed colourful. Surely it is not a walk in the park, but it is also not an uphill battle that would drive me straight to a mental asylum. Nevertheless, unlike many of my fellow co-workers, the journey might be doubly hard for me as I am teaching courses in an area of study that is almost devoid of my genuine passion. To be frank, what I am doing now is just to salvage my degree after a series of bad decisions (mine and others') in my life. I am not social science material. My interest lies in hard sciences like microbiology, pharmacy, and geology-the ones that warrant me spending time analysing material things and experimenting in the laboratory. That is what I am built for - not studying people's behaviour and analysing business in depth. You would not have found me enrolling in a business course had the dominant members of my family been more pragmatic 25 years ago, or had Petronas' or MARA's scholarship offers come before Telekom's. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan 2023 Monograph NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/91943/1/91943.pdf ME - a case of disconnected academic / Shahrul Amri Ab Wahab. (2023) Bulletin. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Negeri Sembilan. |
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Last January marked my 12ᵗʰ year as an academic at UiTM. Just like most, if not all, of my colleagues, my journey as a lecturer is indeed colourful. Surely it is not a walk in the park, but it is also not an uphill battle that would drive me straight to a mental asylum. Nevertheless, unlike many of my fellow co-workers, the journey might be doubly hard for me as I am teaching courses in an area of study that is almost devoid of my genuine passion. To be frank, what I am doing now is just to salvage my degree after a series of bad decisions (mine and others') in my life. I am not social science material. My interest lies in hard sciences like microbiology, pharmacy, and geology-the ones that warrant me spending time analysing material things and experimenting in the laboratory. That is what I am built for - not studying people's behaviour and analysing business in depth. You would not have found me enrolling in a business course had the dominant members of my family been more pragmatic 25 years ago, or had Petronas' or MARA's scholarship offers come before Telekom's. |
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