Live/Love/Sing/Dance.

I have had many brushes with university life, be it staying at NUS during CAP, attending countless fairs, going for inundating interviews, or receiving almost 2 dozen manila envelopes, each containing a yes, no or invitation of some sort from some institution of higher learning or related agency. However, the vast majority of these have been with an implicit assumption that my further studies would take place overseas. Local tertiary education was a back-up of some sort. I've mentioned that Law@NUS would have been my only real choice, though its prestige alone hasn't made me see it in the same light as the Unis overseas I deeply want.

Today's post, however, is about Law's slightly more scientific counterpart, NUSMED. A veritable convergence of passionate individuals keen on all that the hippocratic oath expounds. None of this, oddly enough, ever factored in my Uni considerations. I've never really known what course I wanted, but I've always known what I didn't want, and one of those was medicine. That being said, last night and this evening have been taken up squarely by the announcements, one after another, of my friends and peers who have so sought after this and have made it. The intensity with which they pursue this course is not unlike that seen in hungry carnivorous felines - primal and singular. I don't quite think any other acceptance season sees quite this much frenzy. So congratulations to my medical brethren; your MBBS-lined clinics and theatres I do hope I have privileged access to.