Honour(s) me
Tomorrow's definitely a day to remember. Why? For I'm having my final exam. When I say "final", I don't mean "the last one for the semester"; I mean "the very last one I'm possibly going to take in my entire life". After tomorrow, I'm considered a varsity graduate. Well, I haven't really gotten the degree per se but hey, I'm sure to pass the exams, considering the fact that I have done all my assignments dutifully.
A few, well actually quite a number, has questioned me on why I don't go for the honours program or do a double major. My answers usually leave them a little baffled - I think honours is unimportant and writing a thesis doesn't contribute much to my development. I'm not putting down all those professors and researchers who publish their works for a living but writing a thesis just anin't my cup of tea. As for double majors, let's just say that NUS Business School doesn't really offer majors that truly interest me and leave it at that. Apart from the management major, that is.
If my grandma is still alive, she'll be so proud of me. Among her grandchildren, I guess I'm her favourite one. But that's just because she brought me up when I was a toddler and we were close. She was also the one of the two who didn't oppose my decision to go to a polytechnic. Everyone was yapping on why polytechnic will deprive me of "chances" and why JC will be better. Heck! I proved everyone wrong, didn't I? Damn, it feels great. The other one who didn't oppose my decision was my dad. In a strange twist of fate, both of them are dead and ironically, the ones who support my decision are no longer around to witness the end result, while those naysayers are, well, still around.
Truth to be told, I do feel a little lost. This is vastly different when I graduated from polytechnic. Back then, I knew somehow I'm going to come back into the academic circle and resume what I do best - study. Now, I'm not so sure. Perhaps I'll further my studies. But the place is unlikely to be NUS. Despite what the advertisements and reports saying how "world-class" NUS is, apparently it isn't "world-class" enough for the Singapore's top scholars and they have to travel all the way to places like the States or London to earn a degree. I believe I should take a leaf out of the scholars' books and seek a more "world-class" university.
It seems like the most logical course I should take next, is to find a job. I hate finding a job. To be more precise, I abhor the job hunting process. Interviews, false hopes and sending resumes blindly are just some of the things I dislike. Perhaps I should place an advertisement in the papers and advertise myself. Interested hirers would call me and I would interview them instead. That's just a thought, though. Alternatively, I can be my own boss, i.e. to do a start-up. Well, I'll need a good idea to get things started and of course, a good team to run the business. And maybe more.
Alright, I think that's enough. Let me get back to my revision for tomorrow's paper.
A few, well actually quite a number, has questioned me on why I don't go for the honours program or do a double major. My answers usually leave them a little baffled - I think honours is unimportant and writing a thesis doesn't contribute much to my development. I'm not putting down all those professors and researchers who publish their works for a living but writing a thesis just anin't my cup of tea. As for double majors, let's just say that NUS Business School doesn't really offer majors that truly interest me and leave it at that. Apart from the management major, that is.
If my grandma is still alive, she'll be so proud of me. Among her grandchildren, I guess I'm her favourite one. But that's just because she brought me up when I was a toddler and we were close. She was also the one of the two who didn't oppose my decision to go to a polytechnic. Everyone was yapping on why polytechnic will deprive me of "chances" and why JC will be better. Heck! I proved everyone wrong, didn't I? Damn, it feels great. The other one who didn't oppose my decision was my dad. In a strange twist of fate, both of them are dead and ironically, the ones who support my decision are no longer around to witness the end result, while those naysayers are, well, still around.
Truth to be told, I do feel a little lost. This is vastly different when I graduated from polytechnic. Back then, I knew somehow I'm going to come back into the academic circle and resume what I do best - study. Now, I'm not so sure. Perhaps I'll further my studies. But the place is unlikely to be NUS. Despite what the advertisements and reports saying how "world-class" NUS is, apparently it isn't "world-class" enough for the Singapore's top scholars and they have to travel all the way to places like the States or London to earn a degree. I believe I should take a leaf out of the scholars' books and seek a more "world-class" university.
It seems like the most logical course I should take next, is to find a job. I hate finding a job. To be more precise, I abhor the job hunting process. Interviews, false hopes and sending resumes blindly are just some of the things I dislike. Perhaps I should place an advertisement in the papers and advertise myself. Interested hirers would call me and I would interview them instead. That's just a thought, though. Alternatively, I can be my own boss, i.e. to do a start-up. Well, I'll need a good idea to get things started and of course, a good team to run the business. And maybe more.
Alright, I think that's enough. Let me get back to my revision for tomorrow's paper.
posted by hg @ 16:26
1 Comments:
At 11:19 PM,
Anonymous said…
"...but writing a thesis just anin't my cup of tea."
and you can come up such wonderful prose every now and then....i tink u are under-estimating yourself.
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