This is a press release. Kind of. But not really. (I even included a tl;dr at the bottom for the benefit of those who might be too lazy to read everything hahahahaha.)
I got a bunch of questions on
askfm last night and I guess I’ve kind of been planning to do up a post to
explain my series of decisions this past year so like halfway through typing up
a super long answer I decided I should just answer all the questions at one
shot and post it here…
Okay so firstly, I went to JC
mainly because of my parents like they didn't really want me to go to poly
(though I actually really wanted to go to Mass Comm after O’s cos ugh A levels)
plus like I'd be a 4th generation saint and that really excited my dad lol UP
AND ON!!! Hahahahahaha and ultimately I did choose SA on my own because why not
and I had so many good friends going I figured that (even if JC was the living
hell my seniors made it out to be I knew) it wouldn’t be so bad with them by my
side (I was right plus they were rly always there for me and tried to help/make
me study and stuff but to no avail HAHA) (massive shout out to Colinshan
lololol) and yeah I really have no regrets at all because I met some of the
most wonderful people and was reunited with old friends (ok actually it's just
David) and last year was rly damn fun like JC is super fun (but must study la)
(which I didn't) so ya I guess I didn't focus or pay much attention to my
studies cause taking A's and doing well for them wasn't really like my main aim
in life or whatever and I struggled with most of my subjects because I really
couldn't study properly and towards the end of the year I just wanted to do J1
all over again...... So ya.
And then at the end of last
year we went to the US for vacation and I visited my cousin (Rachel)'s college
(Westmont) and met with the Dean of Admissions and he told me that I could get
a place simply based on my SAT score (& O lvl cert) so then I applied but I
didn't think much of it because the results wouldn't come out till around May
this year.
So then after the first week
of school this year like during headstart I kind of decided that I didn't
really want to stay in JC anymore because I couldn't remember anything from
last year and the whole point of me wanting to repeat J1 was to like build up
on whatever foundation I had from the previous year but then I realised I HAD
NONE HAHAHAHAHAHA and I struggled with most of my subjects so then I decided
that JC just wasn't for me and there wasn’t really much point in me staying
because I still wasn’t very motivated to study hard for A’s. So yeah I
considered everything quite properly and discussed it with a lot of important
people in my life who I know want the best for me and most of them agreed that
maybe transferring to poly would be a good idea.
So then I went through JAE
again and applied to NP Mass Comm and got in yay and at this point I still
hadn't heard from Westmont so I just went to school and it was like a new start
and I really enjoyed most of the things I was learning so honestly I wouldn’t
really have minded staying. BUT in the end I got into Westmont and they offered
me a President’s Scholarship + Denise and Danielle were going too so it was
like the perfect scenario because I would be going with 3 of my closest friends
(a cousin counts as a friend too ok) and it was kind of a now-or-never kind of
situation so I was like why not? Plus I’ve always wanted to study in the US
like it’s always been my dream and everything was just there so I was really
happy actually. So at that point the only thing kind of standing in my way was
my mother HAHAHAHAHA like she didn’t really want me to go so it was quite
uncertain for a while but in the end she finally said yes!!
So yes that is the story and
errr ya I think I’ve addressed the three questions so yay!
tl;dr: I chose the US because I've always dreamt of studying there + my cousin and childhood friends will be going to the same school as me, no I don't feel fickle cause I know what I want and yes I am going to study in Westmont College in the US.
P.S. If you're wondering how Marcus is doing given all this he is very sad so maybe do me a favour and give him a hug whenever you see him
