I had received my enrollment offer into RMIT University - Business Management at SIM for the January 2010 intake. Yet currently, I was stucked in a dilemma of whether I should proceed to accept the offer or delaying my studies to the July 2010 intake instead. These days, certain factors have been surfaced which made me considering that I should delay my studies by 6 months instead. Here's the advantaging factors of both choices:
January 2010 Intake
The age factor
Next year I will be turning 24 and by the time I complete my 3 year studies, I will be going to be around 26-27.
Social life factor
Yes, it's true that I can't wait to make new classmates and establishing new friendships in my next level of higher education, especially after those self-inflicted conflicts with my some of Secondary School friends this year which I felt at this current moment, the future to these friendships still look soo bleak. While I do cherish my friendships with my fellow SSA comrades, NS mates, polymates and PGP colleagues, those memories of going KTV and playing manjong with these Secondary School friends had been a great loss.
July 2010 Intake
The Money and job factor
Though it could be a delay of 6 months, but that doesn't mean I will be doing nothing in the days coming ahead. I should be continuing to work at PGP to save up the money and lighten up the family's financial burden for my studies. Furthermore, I was only converted to a permanent staff starting from October and it may not be nice to leave the job in December though the reasons for leaving will be leaving for studies. It might seem to be a delay of 6 months but think this way:
Additional 6 months of fixed income + garnering more working experience
The NIE factor
Of course, I will be able to give myself another try into applying into NIE again. The mass intake for NIE will be in the earlier half of the year and furthermore, the next EPT test to meet the NIE requirements will only start from January onwards. This is another chance for me to take the test and get myself into NIE, another option for me other than taking a degree at SIM.
Other options of courses at SIM
Most of the courses in SIM will only be commercing in the July/August period. Under RMIT University, courses such as Marketing and Econs are only available for the July intake for non-business diploma students like me. What's more, UOL degrees only commerced in July every year. Though I have chose to take up Business Management with specialisation in Marketing, I might have the options to take up the fully Marketing one instead, which is cheaper and time-consuming according to the website.
Well, if you are a 23 year old male who has the wishes to take up a full-time degree, and in such a situation like me,
What will you choose ? January or July ?
Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
It's November
It's kind of recharging my batteries by going for a Halloween weekend at Genting.
Now it's time for me to charge myself forward more ahead... It's November and only 2 months left for this year.
Darran asked me whether have I improved this year, I told him I don't think I have improved. In fact, it's been a year of self-realisation, and that self-realisation comes too late. Though everyone said that it's not too late to know how much it has gone wrong my education path had been, I felt I should have realise all these at the age of 16, the crucial age of taking O-Levels, rather than at a maturing age of 23, when until now then I realise that I should have strived harder to undergo my higher education at a local university like NTU/NUS.
Yeah, this year's my regrets and emotions over my failed education path had affected soo much soo that it led me to destructions of some friendships, no thanks to my emotions and my inferiority.
2010's gonna be a struggle, financial struggles perhaps. But it has to be a year of redemption, where I fucking need to breakthrough and score victories in my studies this time round, as well as continuing to rebuild friendships... Friendships that should have been...
Time to push myself to chant at least 1 hour of fighting daimoku each day from this month onwards. I definitely must show actual proofs and achieve deserving happiness.
Now it's time for me to charge myself forward more ahead... It's November and only 2 months left for this year.
Darran asked me whether have I improved this year, I told him I don't think I have improved. In fact, it's been a year of self-realisation, and that self-realisation comes too late. Though everyone said that it's not too late to know how much it has gone wrong my education path had been, I felt I should have realise all these at the age of 16, the crucial age of taking O-Levels, rather than at a maturing age of 23, when until now then I realise that I should have strived harder to undergo my higher education at a local university like NTU/NUS.
Yeah, this year's my regrets and emotions over my failed education path had affected soo much soo that it led me to destructions of some friendships, no thanks to my emotions and my inferiority.
2010's gonna be a struggle, financial struggles perhaps. But it has to be a year of redemption, where I fucking need to breakthrough and score victories in my studies this time round, as well as continuing to rebuild friendships... Friendships that should have been...
Time to push myself to chant at least 1 hour of fighting daimoku each day from this month onwards. I definitely must show actual proofs and achieve deserving happiness.
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