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Thursday, February 28, 2008

It's been a break this whole week. Plans to catch up on readings, make a little progress through, but is just continually unraveling. Where did time go? Why does time fly by when you want to hold on to it? WHY can't we hold on to it? I'm nowhere near satisfactorily completing my readings in any subject. To put it simply, school sucks.

And now, just as I was hoping to fill up my application for the summer programme to Korea, I just got an email from the relevant department saying only 3 places are being offered. Like, WTH?? I just want to go there to learn the language, mingle with my Korean peers,explore Korea, be totally immersed in the culture while getting great discount in lodging and food Is that too simple a request?

Why must everything in NUS be so rigid and competitive and inflexible? What got me dreaming of the summer programme in the first place was cuz of my friend from the other major uni in Singapore, who went to France after her first semester, with about 40 others (supposedly under the 'same' summer programme) and had a blast. Apparently, summer programmes in NUS are only stuff that students dream of and in reality, which scholars apply for. WTF. Check out some parts of the announcement in my mail, "Please also include all your result slips, all relevant supporting documents which would be useful for the consideration of your application."

I fully expected to submit my entry on Wednesday this week with only the compulsory form sheet (oh how truly naive I am, after reading the above line in today's official announcement mail that came in), but kept putting it off because I had to fill in my CAP (Cumulative Average Point aka GPA) result and I couldn't remember the exact figure. And I admit, I was too chicken to be reminded of it. And now, I just got off looking at my academic results history online, from my first year till now, and I didn't realise a pattern that I should have from the start-that my grades are steadily dropping.

This is such a wakeup call, I gotta start micromanaging my school life and everyday schedule, if I am looking to drastically pull up that CAP. And just so you don't know, I am. God help me.

Uni is a reader.
9:51 PM