the wheels on the bus.
Dinner with CY today (Pastamania!) went just as perfectly normal as any meal with CY gets. There was a lot of complaining (about our jobs, and about university/scholarship applications) and laughing (I have no idea over what, really), and just lots of silliness in general. Rampaged McDonald's, and it was a wonder they didn't remember us from last time with the lion dancers, and didn't throw us out.
I'm bored. Still deciding whether to apply for NUS scholarships and USP. The forms are so hard to fill because they ask for such, well, elitist things. The essay questions are stupid too. D:
I wonder about university life every single day. Looking forward to the campus life, but definitely not the studying. I guess I just have to grit my teeth through the four years if I want to do well. I need to stop slacking.
I need to stop worrying about what's going to happen in the future. Whatever's done is done and however it's going to affect the future, I can't change it. I can only help the process by doing what I should in the present.
It really is difficult to make such important decisions when you're 19. You've experienced nothing but studying, and more studying, and maybe a bit of working. You've got no idea how you're taxed, how the government really works, how the real working world is like. You know practically nothing. All you know is that 1 plus 1 gives 2, sodium chloride is table salt (sort of), Singapore became independent in 1965, that sort of thing.
It's so purely academic that it's scary. This is not the knowledge you need to have to survive in society. Sure, if you're an A*STAR scholar or whatever, being smart is good because you're among the top at the workplace. But how far does it really get you in life? Academic smarts definitely aren't everything. CY and I talked about this today. Our education system has produced good results, but the process simply sucks because of how rigid (and torturous) it is.
I'm sick and tired of a society that's so bent on qualifications. I'm tired of having to work so hard academically, only to throw it all away because, in the end, it's not needed. I guess I really want to make good my choices in university, really pursue my interests, and better understand everything around me.
31st March. Still waiting. Still dreading.
I'm bored. Still deciding whether to apply for NUS scholarships and USP. The forms are so hard to fill because they ask for such, well, elitist things. The essay questions are stupid too. D:
I wonder about university life every single day. Looking forward to the campus life, but definitely not the studying. I guess I just have to grit my teeth through the four years if I want to do well. I need to stop slacking.
I need to stop worrying about what's going to happen in the future. Whatever's done is done and however it's going to affect the future, I can't change it. I can only help the process by doing what I should in the present.
It really is difficult to make such important decisions when you're 19. You've experienced nothing but studying, and more studying, and maybe a bit of working. You've got no idea how you're taxed, how the government really works, how the real working world is like. You know practically nothing. All you know is that 1 plus 1 gives 2, sodium chloride is table salt (sort of), Singapore became independent in 1965, that sort of thing.
It's so purely academic that it's scary. This is not the knowledge you need to have to survive in society. Sure, if you're an A*STAR scholar or whatever, being smart is good because you're among the top at the workplace. But how far does it really get you in life? Academic smarts definitely aren't everything. CY and I talked about this today. Our education system has produced good results, but the process simply sucks because of how rigid (and torturous) it is.
I'm sick and tired of a society that's so bent on qualifications. I'm tired of having to work so hard academically, only to throw it all away because, in the end, it's not needed. I guess I really want to make good my choices in university, really pursue my interests, and better understand everything around me.
31st March. Still waiting. Still dreading.