Why I should go NUS
I went for the Faculty of Science induction session at NUS with Yi Xin today.
After sitting at the lecture theatre for about an hour and a half, with half of the topics talked about that are redundant to me (think scholarships, exchange programmes that offer only to a limited number of students you can count), I am rather assured that my future with NUS may not be that bad after all.
What I hate about NUS
And I mean, really HATE. Ultimately it dawned on me that what I hate about NUS is the social life la. Nothing to do with the reputation about how they dress and whether the students are cool or not, but more of the professors and speakers etc can just boast endlessly about NUS. It's OK, since NUS is reputable and so on, but it really disgusts me when they actually name the other universities they are trying to bring down, i.e. NTU and SMU, and just criticise like that. It's not very ethical to me. How to let them teach me when I already dislike them.
The NUS campus is rather old also, but it's ok what. Old also got it's beauty. Hard to find toilets around too I think.
In addition the Science Freshman Orientation Committee is...I dunno how to describe. Those 'cooler' people are more of those helpers already, just some other members of the committee. Whereas the president and vice-president of the committee showed themselves to be not dynamic people at all. I'm very skeptical about this though. When they were giving the talk about the camp I wasn't attracted in any way. More of turned off actually. And they were talking about the students as if we're damm desperate to find our other partner in uni lo. Like ahem ahem and then really damm childish.
I'm just another average student anyway, and going NUS may mean I'll be put into an environment full of people not my frequency. As in they may be too smart and I end up having very little friends. Just some stereotype I have in my head la. Don't wanna get too close to the cream of the crop. Whipped cream, sour cream, icing, whatsoever. I'm durian cake!
Why I wanted to go NTU
Another part why I wanted to go NTU is because of the direct four year honours programme if I do mathematical sciences. Like I am guaranteed to graduate with an honours degree and I may seem more attractive than others with just an ordinary degree. (After which I learnt that this may quite be a narrow-minded thought in some way or another.)
Also, the campus is more attractive and I'm somewhat influenced by the open house too. NTU's open house was more warming and lively compared to NUS's.
Thoughts and analysis
However I'm more enlightened about how the different certificates are differentiated in the real world. And I mean real.
Honours degrees are divided into classes too. First, Second Upper (or Higher I'm not sure), Second Lower, Third. And maybe so on I'm not sure. Obviously First Class is the best la. And the speaker was saying that I may not get a First Class honours lo. Like I have no choice but to carry on in the fourth year because the curriculum in NTU won't allow me to stop at the third year and graduate with a degree. Die die must do the honours though I know I'll end up at Third Class. And I thought so too. At NUS I can choose to graduate with a bachelor at least with merit when I know I won't make it to at least a Second Lower Honours. But then again, who knows I may be some bright kid in NTU who will definitely get First Class. That's why la. And Erina is not of the elite race one, duh. If I think I can get a good honours in my third year in NUS, I can carry on. No worries man. A year's work won't make that much of a difference in your points which is cumulative 'unless you flunk everything'. As quoted from Prof Zhu from the Department of Mathematics.
I had a hard time trying to decipher what he was trying to say also lo. Then if I attend his lectures... ... ... ... ... never mind, I can always ask.
Another point to note is that I'd prefer to have more of applying mathematics into science (think Mathematical Sciences) than applying mathematics into everything (think Applied Mathematics). Sigh. It's like I dunno how interested I am in the course liao lo.
Don't give up, girl (or man, in Felix's text)!
Worth the happiness
By the way, it's NUS that's accepting me. Something which I should be happy about isn't it? Just don't have to think too much about rejection by NTU. After this session, I reject NTU. BleH.
One thing I like about blogging. When you pen (or key) down your thoughts, you think deeper. And delve into greater enlightenment. (Like wow. (-_-"))
Academically I still think NUS is much better than the other universities...but I also want to be somewhere that I can be happy in. It's the environment la. I'm also afraid that people may not be friendly enough in the science school to lend a helping hand when blur me is being blur.
But I'll still call NTU. At least I may piss them till I shuang. And that's it.
Probably I now say I should go NUS is because I don't have a choice la. It's also very ironic that I get accepted by a better university, a better faculty. Yep.
And I think since last July my luck has been really down. It's as if I lost a lucky star. But ya, Just My Luck. I need a four-leaf clover. Where to get one that really works?
今天我看开多了。Scarly NTU don't want me is its loss. I'm seriously passionate about mathematics lo. (Yes yes, console yourself. But it's true what.)
After sitting at the lecture theatre for about an hour and a half, with half of the topics talked about that are redundant to me (think scholarships, exchange programmes that offer only to a limited number of students you can count), I am rather assured that my future with NUS may not be that bad after all.
What I hate about NUS
And I mean, really HATE. Ultimately it dawned on me that what I hate about NUS is the social life la. Nothing to do with the reputation about how they dress and whether the students are cool or not, but more of the professors and speakers etc can just boast endlessly about NUS. It's OK, since NUS is reputable and so on, but it really disgusts me when they actually name the other universities they are trying to bring down, i.e. NTU and SMU, and just criticise like that. It's not very ethical to me. How to let them teach me when I already dislike them.
The NUS campus is rather old also, but it's ok what. Old also got it's beauty. Hard to find toilets around too I think.
In addition the Science Freshman Orientation Committee is...I dunno how to describe. Those 'cooler' people are more of those helpers already, just some other members of the committee. Whereas the president and vice-president of the committee showed themselves to be not dynamic people at all. I'm very skeptical about this though. When they were giving the talk about the camp I wasn't attracted in any way. More of turned off actually. And they were talking about the students as if we're damm desperate to find our other partner in uni lo. Like ahem ahem and then really damm childish.
I'm just another average student anyway, and going NUS may mean I'll be put into an environment full of people not my frequency. As in they may be too smart and I end up having very little friends. Just some stereotype I have in my head la. Don't wanna get too close to the cream of the crop. Whipped cream, sour cream, icing, whatsoever. I'm durian cake!
Why I wanted to go NTU
Another part why I wanted to go NTU is because of the direct four year honours programme if I do mathematical sciences. Like I am guaranteed to graduate with an honours degree and I may seem more attractive than others with just an ordinary degree. (After which I learnt that this may quite be a narrow-minded thought in some way or another.)
Also, the campus is more attractive and I'm somewhat influenced by the open house too. NTU's open house was more warming and lively compared to NUS's.
Thoughts and analysis
However I'm more enlightened about how the different certificates are differentiated in the real world. And I mean real.
Honours degrees are divided into classes too. First, Second Upper (or Higher I'm not sure), Second Lower, Third. And maybe so on I'm not sure. Obviously First Class is the best la. And the speaker was saying that I may not get a First Class honours lo. Like I have no choice but to carry on in the fourth year because the curriculum in NTU won't allow me to stop at the third year and graduate with a degree. Die die must do the honours though I know I'll end up at Third Class. And I thought so too. At NUS I can choose to graduate with a bachelor at least with merit when I know I won't make it to at least a Second Lower Honours. But then again, who knows I may be some bright kid in NTU who will definitely get First Class. That's why la. And Erina is not of the elite race one, duh. If I think I can get a good honours in my third year in NUS, I can carry on. No worries man. A year's work won't make that much of a difference in your points which is cumulative 'unless you flunk everything'. As quoted from Prof Zhu from the Department of Mathematics.
I had a hard time trying to decipher what he was trying to say also lo. Then if I attend his lectures... ... ... ... ... never mind, I can always ask.
Another point to note is that I'd prefer to have more of applying mathematics into science (think Mathematical Sciences) than applying mathematics into everything (think Applied Mathematics). Sigh. It's like I dunno how interested I am in the course liao lo.
Don't give up, girl (or man, in Felix's text)!
Worth the happiness
By the way, it's NUS that's accepting me. Something which I should be happy about isn't it? Just don't have to think too much about rejection by NTU. After this session, I reject NTU. BleH.
One thing I like about blogging. When you pen (or key) down your thoughts, you think deeper. And delve into greater enlightenment. (Like wow. (-_-"))
Academically I still think NUS is much better than the other universities...but I also want to be somewhere that I can be happy in. It's the environment la. I'm also afraid that people may not be friendly enough in the science school to lend a helping hand when blur me is being blur.
But I'll still call NTU. At least I may piss them till I shuang. And that's it.
Probably I now say I should go NUS is because I don't have a choice la. It's also very ironic that I get accepted by a better university, a better faculty. Yep.
And I think since last July my luck has been really down. It's as if I lost a lucky star. But ya, Just My Luck. I need a four-leaf clover. Where to get one that really works?
今天我看开多了。Scarly NTU don't want me is its loss. I'm seriously passionate about mathematics lo. (Yes yes, console yourself. But it's true what.)
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