some random update
previous post: 10 aug
latest post: 2 sept
not bad….nearly 1 month since my last post on this blog. a lil update on what have been keeping me busy these days:
a) uni application
b) prelims
these 2 have been taking out a large portion of my time. correction: almost all my time
uni application is extremely tedious. lots of research to do, lots of editing to do for personal statement, lots of self-reflection on what to study in uni….n which uni to apply to…
bloody hell it cost a lot of money to apply for us n uk unis…well, it’s the cost i gotta pay to secure a spot.
n i’ve been thinking very hard on whether to pursue politics in uni. i know i’m doing econs in uni, but should i join it together with politics? it’s a pretty interesting subject. i’ll dwell further into the topic within myself in the following days.
anyway, i’ve been surfing around websites n blogs reading stuff n wasting time, n i kinda bumped into several interesting stuff….
i shall share the following. pls do take a look at this interesting letter on “Why Do We Go To University”.
the following italicized words are quoted from the link provided.
Why do we go to university?
Oon Yeoh | Aug 19, 08 5:08pm
I would like to share what I learned from that guest lecturer who was invited to give a talk in the sports journalism class I was taking.
He was a baseball expert but when he took to the podium, he told us that he was not going to talk about America’s favourite pastime.
Instead, he had a question for all of us: “Why are you all in college?”
That seemed like an easy enough question to answer. Several students quickly put up their hands.
“So we can get a good job one day and make lots of money!” said one student, to loud laughter.
The lecturer smiled and said, “Come on, we all know that there are many people who never went to college and are rich beyond imagination.”
“To get an education,” said another student.
“You don’t necessarily have to go to college to do that,” the lecturer said. “Many people get their education through the school of hard knocks.”
Another student said, “To get a degree. You can’t get that unless you go to university.”
To that, the lecturer replied, “That’s not true. You can take correspondence courses.”
At that point, everybody seemed stumped so the lecturer finally said, “The main reason you go to college is to learn to socialise” and he proceeded to elaborate.
When you graduate and enter the work force, you will be surrounded by generally like-minded people with roughly the same educational background and social status.
If you are in banking, the people around you would have probably studied finance. If you are in the medical field, the people you mingle with will be fellow doctors and nurses. And if you are in architecture, your network of friends and associates will inevitably be those in the building and construction industry.
Unless you happen to have a very unique job that requires you to mingle with a broad range of people, the harsh reality is that your world will be constrained by your career choices.
College is the only time in your life when you are exposed to all kinds of people from all walks of life and from very different backgrounds
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Kinda interesting perspective on the issue rite? I wouldn’t say i totally agree 100% but there remains some truth in it…uni’s gonna be interesting. it’s gonna be the best 3-4 years of our lives. so dun make a fool of urself by keeping to urself. it’s the best time for socialising.
anyway, for my classmates, this sound kinda nerd, but i also bumped into a website telling how to do evaluation for a-level econs. maybe it’s worth ur time reading it here.
