What can be so silly about a World Class University you ask? For starters:

1) Monday to Friday working days
NUS operates only Mondays to Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays are dedicated to procreation, ala Singapore style. Labs, tutorial rooms and admin offices are all closed and all forms of group based academic pursuits grind to a halt for the elusive 2.1 babies per couple. It doesn't matter that 5 days work weeks doesn't mean weekends = no work. It doesn't matter that access to SOC computing labs is smartcard controlled. It doesn't matter that PCs are chained. It doesn't matter that you have project work or require printing services desperately on weekends. No sirree. May we recommend you try the library, where you'll most likely get your collective arses kicked out when you attempt a group discussion, because the meeting rooms are all taken up by sleeping idiots? Give feedback? I'm still awaiting a reply... and who I am compared to babies anyway?

2) Midterm breaks
First, NUS had a sensible 1 week break. Some loved it, some hated it. NUS then decided to abolish the midterm break. Some loved it, most hated it. NUS then reinstated the midterm break, but shortened it to a 5-day one. You'd think with a Monday to Friday working week, the midterm break will logically fall from Monday to Friday, as it's clearly labelled 5 days afterall. But Noooooo.... Midterm break starts on a Sunday, and ends on a Thursday. Since when is Sunday considered a school day, especially in view of the 5 day work week? And if it was, why not include Saturday in the count and make it 6 days? And what IS the logic behind a single school day in one week? Extending the break by 1 day will hardly set the entire university into chaos. But Noooooo... we MUST start school on Fridays, so that the entire schedule for the 2nd half of the semester is as screwed up as a nail overdosed on alcohol. Now everyone is just plain confused.

3) Module Bidding
Now see, every NUS student has 2 bidding accounts, in which points are credited to allow us to bid for modules in 39 categories, during 4 bidding rounds, Round 0, Round 1A thru B, Round 2A thru C, Round 3A thru F. You may bid for certain categories of modules only during specific rounds, and woe is you if you ever forget. 1 module can be of different categories to two students, and 1 module can also fall under more than 1 category for each student. Of course, certain modules can only be bid for using one account, while other modules can be bid for using another account. Bidding goes through 3 phases, the first of which you may not bid, the second of which you may bid and view the lowest bid required, and the third of which you may bid but may not view the lowest bid required. After you have gotten a module, the difference between your bid and the lowest bid required is refunded to you. After all of this, you may begin balloting for tutorials, at which point you lose your sanity and fling your mouse at your screen.

4) Emails
It takes 4 admin officers to forward a useless mail to you (which further expires by the time you receive it), despite the fact that there are clear university wide mailing lists available to them. On the other hand, it takes no effort for 1 outsider to mass mail a useless mail to you and other innocent spam victims, despite the fact that there are no mailing lists available to him. Go figure.

5) Password Change
You change your university-wide password, used at countless locations on campus, at a small, tinny link on the NUS Exchange email site, if you want to do it online. Please squint hard to see the hyperlink.

6) Acceptable Use Policy
You either sign it or lose access to all IT resources. And marks. And lecture notes. And forums. And official email accounts. And all forms of non-verbal communication with the university. This is no AUP! This is Acceptable Use Law.

7) NUSSU
We pay money to NUSSU, for them to..... ... ... gee I don't know. Organize bazaars? (The U is for Union by the way, not Useless)