I think the club rocks.

Since we took over, we had been a revolutionary exco, trying out different reforms measures to find one that fits the club.  Our radical reform (First 5 Week Plan a.k.a The Leap Forward) didnt work out at all.  Our members are not accustomed to self-directed learning, neither are they willing to share knowledge in the form of mutual presentation and tutorials.

Then came the long period of complete inactivity due to the club exco being involved in external events.  During our meeting today, we reestablish the exco’s ideology of self-directed applications of knowledge skills and unveiled the commune concept.  We grouped members into tiny commune each one with their own projects based on the group’s expertise, hopeful that while trying to complete their projects (i.e. web creation for other organisations/clubs) they can learn and increase their depth in the related skills.

This Second 5 Week Plans will be tested out to see its effectiveness in aiding learning with the exco painting a very beauiful picture our expectations of Com Sci Club in the near future.  This is the latest measure that we are adopting to get as many members actively involved as possible, although what eventually turns out 5 weeks later is very big unknown.  To end off, I would like to say that what we are doing now is essentially similar to the Chinese transition from a planned to a free economy, both adopting the concept of “Mo zhe shi tou guo he” (Crossing the river while groping the stones under foot).  We have to take each step carefully, one at a time, with the ultimate aim of reaching the opposite bank and gain significant IT skills by the time we graduate from school.