Hi once again! This time I'll be writing about my trip to two Uni open houses today. Both SIM Global Education and NTU had their open houses today and I had already made plans with some friends to go visit the open houses. Thus, I dragged myself out of bed early this morning at around 8am to get ready to go out, I was still really tired though seeing as I slept really late again, at around 2am, last night. Still, I had to be at Clementi MRT by 10 am so it really is high time that I get out of bed.
Upon getting to SIM with an NS friend of mine, D, I wasted no time in getting to the venue of the open house and started browsing through the various courses there were available. Hahas, why the rush you may ask. I was trying to get everything done here asap as I had to visit NTU open house right after this. I didn't want to arrive too late for the NTU open house of course.
Okay, back to SIM. It was only until we started chatting with some of the attendants around that I realised that this open house was slightly different from the one I just visited some time back. Oh,,, SIM consisted of two entities. This was the open house for SIM Global Education while the previous one was for UniSIM, the local Uni. Thus, I did take some time to browse to through the courses that were offered by the various overseas universities which were partnering SIM. However, there weren't many courses to my interest and since both me and my friend were not really interested in overseas education, we thus decided to make enquiries on the local UniSIM instead.
After the enquiries, I certainly got a much better idea of the courses offered by UniSIM. Apparently, the places will not be reserved for us so we can only apply some time next year. I asked pretty much the same questions as before and got the same answers as before. However, I did notice one thing about the courses this time though, I realised that the courses were structured in such a way that it made attending the courses really flexible. That really caught my attention. We left soon after that as the courses there didn't really interest me anyways.
We got to Clementi Mall and had a quick lunch before I headed off to meet up with a JC classmate, CK, at Pioneer. We had a bit of a problem finding our way around NTU but we did manage to get to the area where the booths were situated after some asking around.
Oh boy! There were so many China students there. Wow... it just suddenly dawned on me that competition is really though. Hahas, I'd still like to make it to study here though, I really liked the Chinese speaking envrionment hahas. It was to the point that most of the attendants that were tending the booths were well versed in using Chinese to explain what the various courses were. I found that really interesting lol. Being really hungry for information about the courses here and wanting to get as much information as I could so as to make an informed choice, I thun visited almost every booth and picked out as many brochures as I could get my hands on. Most of the courses seemed really interesting lols. One which really caught my eye was the Earth and Environmental Science course. It was everything I wanted to study and did not really require good grades as it was a new course only starting next year. Thus, the intake was based much on interviews and assessing how interested one was in that subject matter. I saw hope in that. Now I really hope to get into that course.
Another course which I was interested in was also the Chinese Studies course. I made queries and I was told that the entrance grade was at least CCC for H2 subjects. I enquired further and got to know that I have an advantage having take Chinese in JC and having taken Higher Chinese in Sec sch too. That raised my hopes a little. We even visited the NIE booth as a back up just in case all else fails. At least teaching was a sustainable career too. We got brochures from there too and even from the Arts and Social Science courses for some reading up on those courses.
Throughout the day, I was really elated to bump into some friends while at NTU. These friends ranged from JC school mates to Sec sch classmates. I even saw a good friend of mine from Pri sch just as I was leaving. Wow, what a day! It was so good to see them!
I was high with elation and rejuvenated with hope after the NTU visit. I'm certainly looking forwards to the NUS open house next week!
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