Lan Yingjie ([info]lanyingjie) wrote,
@ 2009-05-10 18:14:00
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Old teenage hopes left alive at your door;
So this weekend was a long weekend, in a sense a truly long weekend because I got to book out early for Medical Appointment! Which was really good, since I got my clean bill of (dermatological) health and our dear Singapore Gahmen picked up the tab completely. I decided to go for a run after that, which proved rather dumb because the traffic along the roads was choking me with exhaust but when I hit Hwa Chong in 25 minutes (which is rather fast, given that there were 3-4 minutes of waiting for traffic lights), I got to meet Zoe and Jaya and catch up. One of the smaller pleasures of life is really just talking and catching up with friends.

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I got accepted by NUS Science, which is a relief since I got a bit worried after not hearing from them at all. That's exactly what you get for not submitting except at the very last minute I guess. In a way, I'm glad to be given the chance to study what I really love; it's something that I have been passionate about for years.

While it's not quite the be-all-end-all thing I hoped, at least it's something I can be thankful for and look forward to. Life Sciences it is then!


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[info]meridianiplanum
2009-05-10 04:15 pm UTC (link)
somehow i thought you were doing medicine. obviously my memory is failing.

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-10 11:29 pm UTC (link)
I'd like to, but I couldn't get in x.x. If I'm still going to do it, it'll have to be via the graduate medical school route!

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[info]theoxymoronic
2009-05-11 11:41 am UTC (link)
Hello Ying Jie Congrats!! :) Yay at least you're doing something you love.

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-11 11:58 am UTC (link)
Congrats! I'll be in your faculty then. Although chances are I'll hardly see you because I'll be stuck in Pharmacy. XD

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-15 01:00 pm UTC (link)
And better still, two years my senior. My friend Cheryl ([info]de3mental)'s gotten into pharmacy too!

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-15 01:10 pm UTC (link)
Well, duh. You're a guy. :D

That's good. I'll say hi to her... sometime in the future! XDD Well, at least you want to do science. I've no idea right now whether I want medicine enough to do it in grad school. Frankly, I think that says something about how much I want to do medicine... XD

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-15 01:55 pm UTC (link)
Ah yes :P. Well I pretty much kissed local medicine at Yong Loo Lin goodbye the very minute I got my grades, so I think I'm spared the pain you all are going through now. (Though yes it pains me more that those accepted are disrupting and will return as 3 bar captains to sit in an aircon office as a medical officer while I slog my guts out x.x). That said, I still want to consider graduate medical school.

It's just something I've always wanted to do really badly I guess, to hell with career prospects.

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-15 02:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm actually not going through a lot of pain. I've been psyching myself since Day 1 that being a doctor is a pretty shit job until you get to being a senior registrar anyway so yea, it's like, whatever.

Frankly, I like the prospect of being a pharmacist in the US a hell lot more than going to graduate medical school. But then again jobs in the US are shit hard to get nowadays.

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-15 02:24 pm UTC (link)
I'd stay here, but I want to study in US for GMS. Somehow I think there's a certain attraction to studying medicine, even if I don't practice after all.

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-15 02:27 pm UTC (link)
I love the study of medicine in itself. I love reading up on medicine and just knowing everything that's going on. The real problem is whether I want to practice or not. Which is why I do think the US system of having medicine as a graduate degree is so much better; I don't think it's really fair to get 18-year-olds to commit themselves to medicine. I really do think that 4 years of college changes your perspective by a whole lot, so it's probably much better to decide if you want to be a doctor after that. Admittedly it's a much longer route.

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-15 02:35 pm UTC (link)
EXACTLY. Though what I'd like is to do public health policy with the medical degree, though I'm not sure if it's that wise.

What I dislike though, is how people give me really weird looks just because I'll be a 3-4 years behind in my career at the start.

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-15 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Oh, come on. If I do become a practising pharmacist, people will give me weird looks because apparently I'm not good enough for med school and therefore can only dispense Panadol at Guardian. XDD

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[info]lanyingjie
2009-05-15 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Which is probably why most pharmacists go into research. The ones at Guardian just don't get enough respect x.x.

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[info]xue_lee
2009-05-16 12:18 pm UTC (link)
Frankly, anyone in Singapore working in allied healthcare or nursing is just grossly underappreciated. Just look at how we treat nurses.

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