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My name is Leng Xiuwen and I am a twenty-year-old female currently in my second year of undergraduate studies in National University of Singapore (NUS), majoring in Statistics and Applied Probability. Being in the retail industry during my part time tenure has allowed me to develop a myriad of interpersonal skills that I believe I can draw upon in future. I have trained myself to be able to adapt quickly to different situations by constantly having to attend to different customers. As such, I believe that I have the diverse interpersonal skills that are essential in the working world, where one will get to meet and work with different kinds of people every day. Having a cheerful and outgoing personality has definitely helped me to build a wide network of connections which I can tap into when I enter the workforce. Furthermore, it can also help to develop good relationships in the workplace, which in turn translates to higher efficiency within a team. Serving as the president of Science Computer Based Learning Center has allowed me to develop my leadership abilities and trained myself to work effectively in a team. Hence, I am confident to perform and lead effectively in a team. It is without a doubt that entering the workforce will be a new challenge, but I believe that with these invaluable skills I have picked up along the way will help me to excel in the workforce.

*edited on 19th Oct

Reflecting on my report writing!

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Being a statistics major, this is the first time I have to submit a business report. It is considered quite a challenge as I have little prior experience in writing reports. During my Junior college days, I had to write a report for Project Work, and although I did learn quite a bit about report writing then, the scope for it this time is quite different. For one, the time frame to finalize this report is very much shorter. And the biggest difference is that this time the report is to be viewed by professionals! During my first year in NUS, the closest ‘reports’ that I ever got to writing was java programs for one of my core modules.

Effective communication is very important in a research group as it allows for better understanding and bonding among the members. One of my group members is from Myanmar, and initially I was afraid that the language barrier might be a hindrance in our discussions. Amazingly, I was wrong. Sammy could converse well in English and we were able to share many discussions without a hitch. An interesting fact that Eileen and I found out nearing the end of our project was that Sammy was actually more proficient in Chinese! It was pretty hilarious as we were rather shocked to hear him converse in Mandarin during our last meeting, as all along we thought that he could only speak in English! As such, it seems that bonding in a team is very important as it helps us to work more effectively together.


Of the three of us, I would say that Sammy is the drive behind our team as he is the one who will keep us to our deadlines. Without him to push us, we might probably not be as efficient. As our schedules were quite packed, we had most of our meetings online, and luckily we had Sammy to push us and remind us of our deadlines, so that everything can go according to plan smoothly.


I have also picked up new skills during the course of this project. One thing that I have gained was using Microsoft Excel to construct graphs. I never knew that excel was able to construct graphs as I never had the experience in administrative work before. I also learnt to gather resources from the internet and related books.


All in all, it has been quite a positive experience in doing this research report with my team members. There were times when we had fun with endless laughter and times when we had to sit down and do our work seriously. This is indeed one of the projects that I have enjoyed participating in, despite the fact that the time span was pretty short and we had to rush everything out within a short timeframe. Undoubtedly, I have learnt a lot from this experience, and I will certainly miss the times Eileen, Sammy and I shared during the project. They are the best team members I can ever ask for!

*edited on 12th Oct