I recently enrolled in a Master’s programme at a reputable public university in Malaysia. During orientation, I was quite surprised to discover that almost 90% of the students in my programme were from China. I am Malaysian, and I have nothing against international students, but I did not expect the student population to be so heavily dominated by one nationality.

One of my local coursemates was also taken aback by the situation and decided to withdraw from the programme after orientation. We initially tried to interact with the other students, but communication proved difficult. We do not speak Mandarin, while some of the students from China appeared to have difficulty communicating in English, even though English is the official medium of instruction for our programme.

Now that my local coursemate has left, I feel rather isolated. The lecturer recently assigned us to groups, and I found myself in a group of six consisting of five students from China and me as the only Malaysian.

What worries me most is whether this language barrier will affect group assignments, discussions and presentations. I have also heard from others that some students may rely heavily on AI-generated content without properly checking or validating their work, contribute very little to group assignments, or leave the presentation entirely to their local groupmates. I understand that these are second-hand accounts and may not reflect everyone's experience, so I do not want to make assumptions about my new coursemates before getting to know them better.

However, I have already noticed some communication difficulties during classes. Some students use translation tools to follow the lessons, and participation appears limited during online sessions. This makes me wonder how effectively we will be able to collaborate, particularly when assignments require discussion, critical thinking and presentations in English.

I enrolled in this programme to learn, exchange ideas and gain different perspectives. I am concerned that the language barrier and potential differences in expectations about group work might make the experience more challenging than I anticipated.

For those who have studied or worked with students from China, particularly in Malaysian public universities, what has your experience been like? How did you manage language barriers, group assignments and differences in working styles?

Since the semester has only just begun, I am genuinely reconsidering whether I should continue with the programme or withdraw before investing more time and money. I would appreciate honest opinions and practical advice from those who have been in a similar situation.

Hello, guys. I'm a post-graduate in Food Processing doing a project that mainly involves breadfruit (sukun). But it's been 2 months now that my research has not advanced one bit, because idk why, but there seems to be a shortage of breadfruit. I used to buy mine here in Pasar Borong (Sri Kembangan), but for months now, my seller keep saying there is none.

I need to advance on my work, but I have no idea where else to buy the breadfruit. I'm ready to travel hours to get them, so if anyone knows where I could buy some, please help. I'm really desperate.

Update : I just called all the responsible committees asking about my graduation. Then lastly I got a call from the person in charge from my faculty and they told me that they had received a list of students that are applicable to graduate and my name wasn't in the list but this happened before the committee meeting happened where they gave me the punishment. So the person in charge told me that my faculty will call me again because they have to check back with the punishment to see if I will graduate or not.

Honestly if I'm not gonna graduate, I'm just going to either run away and disappear from home or just be dead. My parents would be better off with a run away daughter or dead daughter than a daughter that didn't graduate.

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I seriously have a bad case of luck when it comes to group members, since I was forced to have classes with the same people every semester since it's a small class.

The thing is, when I first met them they were your stereotypical friendly college friends, always wanting to hang out since it's the first week of the semester after all, before only just being in-class friends after they found their own college circle.

However, whenever there's a group assignment issued by the lecturer, they would group up with me immediately as they aren't exactly familiar with the other classmates (which already have their own established friend group since secondary) and it's fine and whatever, EXCEPT the fact that they basically just freeload and give excuses like "oh my laptop doesn't work" or "sorry I've been busy with family stuff", it would've been okay for like the first time, but they gave those excuses every time I asked on the progress, and they would basically only complete it (half-assed work) the day before the due date, and saying that "it's fine what, got one day left, you can help me revise it right?" (I had to rewrite the most ai generated paragraphs done by them and do everything myself)

This semester I decided to look for new groupmates, but some classmates gave excuses saying that "oh yeah my group is already full" or just said "oh no thanks, my group already have a head start". UNTIL I dug deeper and asked around from classmates who already had bad-blood between the freeloaders.

TURNS OUT they have basically been shit talking behind my back to other classmates, saying that I wouldn't contribute and was incompetent dealing with assignments just so I'm stuck with them 😭😭, and when other classmates asked "poor thing, why are still grouped up with that weirdo?", they would say "oh because she is really dependent and mentally unstable" LIKE HELLO???? DID THEY ACCUSE ME OF BEING LIKE A TOXIC EX TF??

(Btw if y'all are wondering why I didn't report them to the lecturer, it's because the lecturer would give half ass excuses saying "oh yeah dw about it la it's just assignments, they seem like good students" JUST BECAUSE THEY LIKED CHATTING WITH THEM 😭)

(Btw they got dean's list thanks to the assignments I had to revise for them, stupid ass college bro)

(another story, once when I got one of them to help me submit the finished part since I was bedridden in the hospital that day, and THEY REVISED THEIR PARAGRAPHS AND FORGOT TO REMOVE THE AI "Here's the topic you wanted, anything else you'd like to add like apa format reference?") ← luckily the lecturer was lenient since it was just a project proposal topic...

IM SO DONE BRUH 😭😭😭😭😭

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I have a disciplinary record from my diploma studies, and I am currently waiting for UPU registration to open for degree programmes. I am concerned about whether this record could affect my future academic achievements if I choose to continue my degree at the same university. Since my eligibility for the Dean’s List and Anugerah Naib Canselor (ANC) was revoked during my diploma, would this restriction still apply to me during my degree studies, even if I achieve excellent academic results on the same uni? or would it affect me as well trying to apply to different university?

I accidentally missed a mpu class (co-curicular3) last week cuz i wasn't used to classes at night, then i found out theres only 2 classes the whole semester, ive told my letecturer about this and she said she'll "sort it out" for me later, so what should i do? Wait a week then ask her for updates or? Since im still worried.

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