those out there who actually consider coming to uthm, i'd strongly advice to rethink carefully. university life should be great and its suppose to be a lot of fun. yes, no doubt its cheap and you'd get ptptn and stuffs so u get some extra money to spend. but if it was me making the decision btw uthm and uniten, i'd go for uniten. well i've been studying in uthm for two years now. electrical engineering. and let me tell ya something, it was one of he biggest mistakes i had ever done in my life that i truly regret. first of all, i had no idea at all how the surroundings are gonna be like. i just come here cos its cheap, thats all (and my parents were glad that they dont have to spend so much sending me to college). THERE IS NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE DAY THAT I FEEL HAPPY BEING HERE. life is miserable. batu pahat is a kampung, everywhere is a freaking kampung and u wont be able to buy things easily, u've to go to town for that. the people here mainly speak their native language. if u're an english ed or a banana, which in this case i am one, u'll find some trouble living here. in terms of food, there are some cheap chinese and malay stalls around parit raja.

ok, now for the university. everything here sucks, from the quality of education down to the people here. the standard of english here sucks too. u can see plenty of grammatical errors in the learning modules which we bought from the lecturers, and its them who made those modules and sometimes its embarassing if outsiders take a look at it. those who actually enjoy studying and living around here are only the geeks and nerds. u can hardly meet cool people here. about 99.9 percent of them are the chinese and malay stereotypes. the lecturers suck in english, except mr talha he's damn cool if u meet him. he speaks english and is not racist. he kinda has a liberal thinking and he thought that uthm is a f***ed up place too. this sem i had a lecturer who is a faggot and we can hardly hear his talking. i dunno about civil engineering though, i heard that its civil's uthm notable for. there are some racists and discriminators around too, but most of the guys in my class are fine.

i have a friend who screwed up badly here and did credit transfer to a private university in kl. he's doing great in his studies now. said that its a million times better than uthm. i wish i can do credit transfer too, but its already 2 years i wonder if i can still do it. also, another friend of mine who is studying here is having problems with his annoying housemates and this wretched life and wishes to get out of this place. uthm is ranked 23rd in the list of local universities in malaysia which is amongst the last. its even beaten by mmu, ump, ums, unimas, unimap, uum, utem and many others.

hey man better change ur mind quick u still have time, go study in the city, its much better in kl. trust me, i have friends studying in monash, taylors and they said the life is much better over there. just get out of uthm, ive been there and everything sucks. kinda stuck here though cos im already 3 years through

This post has been edited by mel7890: Oct 11 2009, 12:28 AM

what? ok i did laugh a little. sorry didnt mean to be rude. there's one thing i would like to redefine here, by 'cool' i didnt mean one's fashion sense, its the attitude. its always about attitude. there are so many a**holes around, thats one of the f***ed up thing. And a major one too! btw youre absolutely right bhs, no arguing there. i always hear the same thing each time i 'sulk' about what a shithole im in. they all say what u said, lookat the positive side. yeah im happy for those who can do that. but i cant. forgive me but i think its just a pathetic attempt of trying to give urself a consolation or somethin. maybe i played the comparison game too much. but facts are facts.