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To (Understanding) Physics and Beyond!: Teachers’ Day 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Qiu Bixin (25A01A)

Featuring Mr Soh Wei Kuan
Special thanks to Teo Hui Sian (25S06C) and Keng Yi, Nicole (25S03S)

As the three of us walked into the interview, I had no idea what to expect. Out of the three of us, I was the only one who hadn’t taken Physics since Year 2, a good three years ago—if he started talking about some Physics concept in the middle of the interview, my mind would go completely blank. 

Once the interview started though, I heaved a sigh of relief. Other than the fact that no actual Physics was involved in the interview, Mr Soh broke down his teaching method in a very digestible way—a way that even someone who has no knowledge of Physics concepts can understand. This can be credited to Mr Soh’s extensive experience in teaching Physics, as although this is his first year teaching in RI, Mr Soh had previously taught Physics in Nanyang JC (NYJC) for more than two decades. 

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Special Edition: Teachers’ Day 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Raffles Press ’25

Foreword by Teo Hui Sian (25S06C), Chairperson, Raffles Press ’25

I’ve never had a teacher try to convince me to be one. In fact, it seems almost ubiquitous for teachers to jokingly warn a classroom of students against it – “don’t become a teacher”. It’s a faux piece of cautionary advice that seeks to amuse, but perhaps it’s worth reflecting on.

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Beyond the Blueprint: How Ms Charisse Foo Made the Switch from Architectural Design to UI/UX Design
Reading Time: 7 minutes

By Wong Sze Han Darren (24S03C) and Low Jing Kai (24S03H)

The shape of this button. The font of that text. The colour of this arrow. 

To most, these might seem like insignificant and arbitrary considerations, but not to Charisse Foo, a UI/UX research associate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). To her, user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design is more than shapes and colours on a website; it’s about understanding the audience you’re designing for, and crafting an experience that suits their needs. 

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Special Edition: Off the Beaten Track
Reading Time: 2 minutes

By Raffles Press ’24
Foreword by Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A), Chairperson, Raffles Press ’24

“What do I want to be in the future?” is a question that many of us JC students are asking ourselves. With university looming in the horizon, it’s no wonder that JC has become a time for much-needed soul-searching, where we introspect on where and how we really see ourselves thriving in the future. 

At this stage, conventional career paths, like medicine, law and engineering may be the most appealing—they’re clear and well-trodden tracks that provide certainty in a future that so often feels volatile and uncertain. Yet, there may still be a small part of ourselves that yearns to look towards our dreams.

In this special edition, we complicate this train of thought—what if you can turn your dreams into a viable career? What if you can turn your “side quests”—be it your small crochet Instagram account, or time spent volunteering with kids—into your “main quests” instead?

What can you do off the beaten track? 

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Supporting the Community, Making an Impact: Mr Lim Jingzhou
Reading Time: 11 minutes

By Chandrasekaran Shreya (24S06A) and Jermaine Lee (24A01A)

“I like that I get to make different types of impact on people,” Mr Lim Jingzhou (15A01B) shares when we ask him what he loves most about his job as a Community Worker. “Generally, people appreciate what you do.”

“I think people are interested in trying to marry what they do as a job with something that they feel is meaningful enough, which is where the social impact and contribution to society aspect [of my work] comes in. I get to marry that combination of things together, and I think that has to be a good job.”

As you might have already guessed, Mr Lim works in the social sector. He serves as an Assistant Director at the South Central Community Family Service Centre. He also leads the Home Ownership and Livelihood teams to support families living in rental housing to achieve home ownership, while working on a collective approach to supporting low-wage workers on  realising their Livelihood aspirations and improving their employment circumstances. 

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