Once upon a time, there was an island on the west of Singapore called Pulau NTU, which contained a degree mill. It was so freaking ulu, and it produced objects that were so square, that eventually, the products that came from there all had compatiblity issues. Soon there were many squares on the market that could not be sold, and had little commercial value.
The white thunder gods sitting on their mantles saw that they were producing too many incompatible square objects. However, they wondered if the objects were incompatible because of a lack of rounded objects to combine with. Hence, they decided to do things the thunder god way. In other words, my way or the highway. If you don't agree you uplorry.
Hence, they decided to come up with an organisation called the SDU (Square Dating Unit), focused only on getting squares to become more compatible, and to increase their commercial value so they could be sold.
The SDU chose factories that predominantly produced circles, and forcibly relocated them to the west, hoping that by putting square objects with round ones, they would be able to resolve all those incompatiblity issues.
However, the square objects were so square, every time they tried to go near the circles, they could not help but poke them so much the rounded ones got pissed and just got even more distant.
The thunder gods realised that the squares were truly incompatible not because they lacked circles to combine with, but rather because they were actually circlephobic and um, spikier than sea urchins.
So, the SDU stepped in again and forced squares into rounded shapes by making them go for remodelling classes, where their spiky edges were filed down into rounded ones so that even if circles didn't go for them, they wouldn't kill the circles trying.
What's the moral of the story? If you're a circle, you're only in NTU because there are many squares around who are incompatible with circles. In other words, you were put here to be swarmed by spiky squares. Oh joy. Watch out for the spikes.
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What I've posted here is probably to shock all those who had no idea, but it makes a lot of sense doesn't it.
You might have wondered what mass comm is doing in NTU, being obviously at odds with the rest of the university, for all too many reasons. NTU is obviously a university for engineers and others of their ilk, and as a result it offers really little choice in terms of modules for those studying the arts or business.
The gist of the story is, NIE, accountancy and mass comm are only in NTU because of an organisation called SDU. The horrors.