Anyway, this year's bidding really inflated the prices of the courses. Seriously. I just can't believe that I bidded e$14-15 for basic modules and was still near the minimum price for the course group. Others seems to be bidding high prices for their courses too. Which makes me wonder if they are either just looking at the current bids without having the thought of saving up for future bids for senior courses, or that they are just being kaisu.
I'm very desperate to clear STATS151 for 2 reasons. Firstly, STATS151 is a pre-requisite to some courses, clearing it in term 1 would open up my choices for term 2. Secondly, not taking STATS151 will leave me with nothing to bid for, which will mean that i'll just be clearing 4CUs in term 1. Which will most likely mean that i will have to clear more mods in subsequent terms so as to graduate in 4 years. With that said, I'm still unwilling to spend much of my e$ on clearing that. There's still 3 classes for term2, and seriously, i think demand for term 2 will not be that high since only a small portion of econs student plus another group of students taking econs as 2nd degree will be bidding for the course. And so, I've learnt not to take things too seriously. At the very most, I fall behind the main group of people by a small step, but in the process accumulate more e$ to bid for my future finance major courses.
I just can't understand why would people want to bid so highly and spoil market when that would result in a lose lose situation for all freshmen, and the next batch of freshmen too. It's also hard for an individual to place a bid that is acceptable when all the rest have the mentality that "we have to bid higher than last year's minimum bid".
There's still many more rounds of bidding sessions for me to master the art of bidding. I'm still staying optimistic at the moment. Not trying to be too crazy following the crowd in taking the same course and bidding crazily high.
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