just wondering

I wonder if it is a cultural difference, or is it just a matter of life style? or well, you may say both are linked in a sense of another. Maybe I've been away for some time and not quite in sync with the Singaporean way of doing things...

So I login to my school's forum for one of the cross faculty modules and looked through what people in Singapore are discussing right now in class and I see questions about the first assignment... basically we are suppose to match online articles to our syllabus topics. So without much knowledge of what the topic is about, the test here is to see how well you can relate these articles to the respective topics. 5 articles to 5 different topics. Can't get clearer than that.

And questions such as "Can we look for articles from scientific journals?", "what is this topic about?", "what if one of my articles overlaps with another topic?", "do we need to explain why the article is chosen?"... the best question i've seen thus far...

One of the requirement of this assignment is to name the file that you are going to upload in the format of ... and therefore, the question goes...
"do we need to actually include the "brackets" in the name of the file?"

This is seriously it.

Are you just being overly cautious, or is there no limit to plain stupidity? I don't know if it is because I've been overseas and perhaps got this 'slack' mentality in me or whether it is a fact that this is my last semester and final year that I can't really be bothered about academic results...

so people, if you have the time, don't just do traveling as tourists overseas.PLEASE I seek your understanding in this matter as I strongly feel that it enhances your overall well being as a member of the society... Engage yourself in the different cultures in this splendid world that we have and embrace all the differences and diversities. It can only benefit you.

Phew...