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NUS AY 21/22 Sem 2 Course Review

Many NUS seniors will probably tell you that Year 1 Semester 2 is the time for you to do "limit-testing" and making use of your S/Us by overloading more courses. So of course, that's what I did and boy was that a mistake. I was still fairly free last semester but my goodness, taking on 2 extra courses really increased the workload by a wide margin. Thankfully, I've managed to reach the end of this semester relatively unscathed so without further ado, let's get started on Part 2: Electric Boogaloo of my NUS Course Reviews. Disclaimer 1: As a CHS student doing a double major in Communications and New Media (CNM) and Management, my reviewed courses will be almost exclusively CNM, Business and CHS courses with very few exceptions. Disclaimer 2: All of the following courses were taken in AY 21/22 Sem 2 and the structures of these courses MAY BE DIFFERENT in subsequent sems. All views expressed in this article are my own so please only take this review as an unofficial ...

Ms. Marvel (Initial Thoughts)

Don't look away now because the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has just released their latest Phase Four Disney+ outing with  Ms. Marvel . A coming-of-age story that many youngsters can relate to, this series follows Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Pakistani-American teenager who deals with the struggles of reality as a high school student while juggling her fantasies of and love for the superheroine Captain Marvel. Taking place sometime after Avengers: Endgame , our titular heroine does her best to forge her own path, a task made all the more difficult by the added curveball of gaining superpowers. Without further ado, let's dive in. INITIAL THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS (SPOILER ALERT) Kamala Khan is a total fangirl of Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel, making YouTube videos about her and just all-around idolising her. She constantly daydreams about being like her favourite superheroine, much to the chagrin of her strict immigrant parents, who thinks she spends too much time with her h...