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NTU versus SMU
Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Went for the SMU admission interview yesterday.. long interview... The interview lasted about 1.5 hr followed by a 45 min essay writing..

Interview topic: "Should student bear the costs of university education" I totally blanked out when it's my turn to speak..which is crap.. I contributed significant number of main points to my grp.. yes it's split into 2 grps and its a debate.. I'm the last one to speak and already got countered very jialat by the opposition le. So i'm basically left with "Education is for yourself, if one bear the costs will tend to cherish the education more" Unfortunately it's quite a weak point and i failed to elaborate intelligently on it.. hmmmm.. I realised that i'm not comfortable to learn in the so called "seminar-style" setting.. argh..It's not that i'm not smart.. just no that articulated,.. I'm more of the "brain" than the "mouth".. Guess i just flopped the verbal interview.. haiz..

Essay topic
1) "Tell a friend about the happiest day of your life" So childish so i didn't write..about it..

2) "In less than 500 words, write about contentment" Yes I wrote about this..just crapping through.. realised that my 3 main points are abt the same..just elaborated in different perspectives, lol.. anyway, the essay is definitely much better than the interview..

Why must SMU make their interview so tedious.. and the faculty don't seem that friendly.. yes..somehow sense some degree of coldness from them.. Arrogance? maybe..

So should I take the risk and go into smu where i'm not that comfortable with the learning style.. Or should I just go to NTU Accountancy, which i'm already accepted into... Kinda worried that environment might be a little though for me. So decided to check it out during the hi-tea session (yes ntu is so hospitable, actually invited me to the tea session =])

Guess if NTU is fine for me, i'll just accept ntu ba.. =]

I went off @ 1:46 PM