It's been over 12 days and still no mail from the university. I was supposed to receive a welcome package which contains the letter of my acceptance into the university's medical school ( Read more... )

After waking up, I went downstairs and on the kitchen counter I saw a heavy A4-size envelope, addressed to me. It was from McMaster University in Canada. The letter's tone was very excited and they were writing to tell me about the Welcome Week which would have barbecues [with a vegetarian option!!] and other events. They had enclosed about a ( Read more... )

I went to a little talk held by a couple of people from the University of Toronto. They had it at the same place that my cousin Abeer had her AUS fresher's party at - the Gulf Auditorium up on the 33rd floor of the Fairmont Hotel on the Sheikh Zayed Road. Ok, so it wasn't as wild as Abeer's party, but we had our fun ( Read more... )

When Newcastle University made me the conditional offer, their conditions were that I get an A in both Biology and Chemistry.
So I wrote to them, telling them about how I might not do well in Biology because of the Omniscient One, Mr Adul Majeed and his teaching habits ( Read more... )

Yesterday, FedEx brought me a package from the University of Toronto.

So they do want my cute ass in their university. Well well well! Look who's coming around ( Read more... )

McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada just e-mailed me about two hours ago. They've made me an offer of admission! Olé! - yes that's my cry of success nowadays.
wildsherry16 once told me that McMaster's acceptance package is very cool and "it makes you feel like royalty" apparently. All due respect to you, Sherry, but I don't think I'm going to ( Read more... )

I've been keeping a huge secret from you. It's stretched over two weeks and a few days, so read through the timeline:

March 2: I landed back in Dubai after attending the interview at the medical school of the University of Southampton in southern England. They told me they'd reply in six weeks. On the same day, I got an e-mail from another ( Read more... )

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I went to Mahesh's place today.. we had planned to go swimming in the pool near his place. On my way there, Mahesh was talking to (asking) me on the phone about the difference in days/weeks between date X and date Y e.g. May 4th to June 9thSo anyways, when I got to his place, he was typing away at the computer. He asks me the difference between two ( Read more... )

""The western media are widely advertising "homosexuality, which is influencing the youth," he said.

"She acknowledged that a lack of sex education in public and private schools may cause homosexuality and lesbianism"
"She said that few cases of homosexuality were taken to a "psychiatrist for treatment" and in "one case, a female student was placed ( Read more... )