After a period of time known as eternity, I've finally decided to update my long abandoned blog. It's been some time since I finished my dreaded exams (which I screwed up *proudly), but I'm just too lazy to write anything...
And I still don't know what I'm going to write in this post after I've finished my 1st paragraph... My recent exam? One word sums it all: TERRIBLE and that's it. (Ok la, not all of them but at least for few of the paper la) I would rather not dig into that wound any further. My 2010 resolution? I'm not really the type that's so particular about 'yearly resolutions' and it's February already, perhaps Chinese New Year resolution? Get many Ang Paus!! (In other words, money ;P) Anyway, I prefer to just go for it when I think of something rather than planning them at the beginning of the year. Maybe I can talk about what I'm going to do in this year?
After getting myself enrolled in the longest A-levels in the history (2 years instead of the normal 1 and a half year or even the intensive 1 year course), I'm finally going to graduate from HELP in a few months time, yay! Frankly, A-levels is a very dull course and the time I spent at HELP is largely forgettable except for a few activities. Furthermore, the food around HELP is torturously scarce that my taste buds is dying from all the fast food and mamak's 'XX goreng'. From all of these, I guess you can conclude that I'm rather happy to leave HELP in general.
So where I'll be going to after this? Attending another university for my degree of course. Let's start with the universities offer I got. First, I got admitted under Early Decision(ED) into a liberal arts college in US, Lafayette College. Usually when I mentioned this, people's first reaction is: What course ar?. I'm tired of explaining this already so I'll let Wikipedia do the works for me :D
"The “liberal arts college experience” in the US is characterized by three main aspects that demarcates it from undergraduate experience in other countries:
(1) smaller size than universities, which usually means more individual attention is given to each student;
(2) residential, which means students live and learn away from home, often for the first time, and learn to live well with others additionally, the residential experience of living on campus brings a wide variety of cultural, political, and intellectual events to students who might not otherwise seek them out in a non-residential setting;
(3) a typically two-year exploration of the liberal arts or general knowledge before declaring a major." Quoted from Wikipedia under 'Liberal Arts College' section.
Here you go. I've received financial aid from them that is enough to cover my tuition fees plus some living allowances.
Now move on to the offers that I got from UK universities. The courses that I applied is Geosciences by the way. I've applied to 5 universities and 1 rejected me and yes, the one that rejected me is one of the most prestigious one in the world: University College London(UCL) which ranked no.4 in the world according times. Sob... Never mind that, I've still got another 4 conditional offers from Manchester U, Edinburgh U, King's College London and... miraculously, Imperial College London(ICL) which ranked right below UCL. But the condition is that I need to get 3 As in A-levels... == difficult la. But I'll be able to get JPA scholarship straight away if I'm able to satisfy ICL's condition.
Even so, I guess I'll still be going to US if nothing goes wrong. First, I'm ethically bound to enroll at Lafayette college under the ED contract. Second, I'm not so keen on the idea of having to work for the government after I graduate. Third, I'm' very interested in LAC's education system. Hopefully I'll make use of my remaining time here fruitfully and make a good transition to my university life.
Well, I guess this is long enough to compensate for my lack of blogging for such a long time, not that anyone cares. Until next time, for whoever is still checking out this dusty blog...
