words of advice

first of all, i'd like to say this: YES i deleted my previous entry because it was too whiny in my opinion. I deleted it already so i dont have to worry about it anymore :P.

well i've been chatting with my friends and im really surprised that some of them get schools and courses that are SO far away like ITE Bishan, Temasek Poly and ITE Simei. well for me, even though i didnt get NP atleast RP is not far since its at woodlands. Alot of my friends who got to those choices are using the online JAE Appeal Exercise to try and appeal to a school & course thats closer to them. Here's my advice to you guys who got those schools in the east: NO course is worth travelling 2 hours every morning just to get to school. I mean even if its really your interest, it's not a wise decision to go to a school thats far away from where you stay. I respect you guys' decision if the course you want is at those far schools but you guys have to really think about it. I'll explain to you why. Think about it, imagine waking up at 5:30am everyday and lets say you take 30 mins to get ready for school. getting to the MRT station itself is like 10 mins. it takes 1hr 30mins to get to the east side. once you're there, add another 20 minutes for the bus to bring you to your school. so thats 8am or 8:10am already if the bus comes late. it really depends if you are willing to sacrifice alot of time just getting to school and to go back.

so school is 8am to 5pm. when you wanna go home, you have to spend another 2 hours to go home so its 7pm. you have to rest, do your work, watch tv etc and sleep at 12am wake up at 5:30am again. the cycle goes on and on for 2 or 3 years. Im pretty sure, every course in poly has this group work thingy that everyone must do. so instead of going home at 5, you're gonna go home at like 6:30pm. now you're gonna get home later than usual and i dont think the remaining time is enough. you spend more than 10 hours a day just for sch which in my opinion, is crazy. it gets really bad if you have project work.. Even if your desired course is at those FAR away schools, i don't think that its the only solution. there must be other solutions that are nearer right? hours of travelling to and fro would probably make me sleep in class all the time and that would probably lead to bad grades? :X. I should know better cause i sleep in class often last time ahha. my sis used to travel to and fro during her poly(NYP) and she really regretted after just 1 month. i'm not trying to psycho you guys but you also have to think about the time & energy spent on traveling, long sch hours and most important your own free time after sch. if you're willing to do it and your interest is really there then i can't say much.

here's the link for the JAE Online Appeal Thing http://www.polytechnic.edu.sg/jaeappeal/
Remember people, this thing ends on 3rd February, Tuesday. well basically its tmr since its already Monday morning now. the online thingy ends at 4pm on Tuesday. you got 3 choices for any course to appeal into and the results will be out on 9th Feb. of course, you have to meet the Cut-Off points. they'll ask for a valid reason but im pretty sure that if you say that the school is bloody far from where you live, they'll agree with you. for you guys who are appealing into a different course that you want, all the best and hopefully you get it. okay i shall end it here because my fever's back up again! it got worse just now because i coughed out 'jellified' blood. eee.
oh well, gnite ppls! :D