Thoughts

Somehow it bothers me sometimes when I feel that I am being look down at. Not just me, but the whole poly cohort in general. Why do people in JC always think that they are smarter? Not all of them but perhaps a lot of them feel so. But that's certainly not true. It is the choices we make, the route we chose to go. In this case, poly. 

Poly is a great journey, 3 years of life skills being thrown at us and I am sure I learnt a lot of skills that I won't be able to picked up in JC. I learnt confidence. Given the chance to practice my presentation and communication skills, I am a much more confident speaker now as compared to when I was in year 1, still new and fresh. I still dread every single presentation even up till now, not the best speaker too, but I understand myself better now.

You see, most of us in poly can actually go to a JC too. It may not be the best JC but hey, a lot of friends around me actually did better than the friends of mine who went to JC. So we are all equal. Yes, it is true that the poly graduate have lower chance to enter lower U. Lol definitely not because we are dumber okay. It is because we are in Singapore. 90% of the JC cohort makes up the 100% of the population in local U. Only 10% for the poly cohort. It is not as if we get to chose, or am given a choice. We have to squeeze and compete with thousands of students from the 5 polytechnics. It is definitely not as slack and easy as what people think unless you have already experienced it. Poly being more slack is not true at all. It is just that we are more flexible and given time to take exams and do our assignments. Oh we have Final year projects as well and of course, Internship. Yes, I can vouch and say that the skills we learnt are actually more applicable in the working world? 

So what if most of us poly graduate end up in SIM? At least we still get a place somewhere right. No place in local U? Well, let it be then? What can we do to change the fact that only 10% of us can get in local U anw. The fact is, the government feel that us, as diploma students, we are eligible to work already rather than study. Though majority of us still want to get a degree because certification is important in SG.

So, ya.