Anyway, i met Julia and MK at AMK Hub this morning 9.30am. The meeting time is supposed to be at 9.30am but for MK who is always late, we told her its at 9.00am and this works because she turns out to reach earlier than us, for the first time i think. But then i can see the fire in her eyes when i revealed our plans to tell her an earlier meeting time. Haha. No hard feelings !!! FPE couldnt come coz he was stuck in tekong until in the afternoon and YY got fever. He wasnt interested in NTU anyway. And yah, he dun really need to attend the open houses...he is already confirmed a seat in some US or UK top universities under some prestigious scholarship for he got 8 distinctions lor.
Anyway, we boared the North East train to Jurong where on board Julia met her sec sch classmates while i saw one guy from AJ 2105 sitting opposite. The train ride was a long tedious one as we finally got to stand up and walk across the platform at Jurong East interchange. The hour long north east ride made my ass numb. Anyway, we then changed to the east west line and took all the way to Boon Lay MRT where there was free feedle service arranged by NTU to fetch us students there. Well, the queue was rather long and it was under the hot scrotching sun and we hav to like wait for 3 buses to pass before we can be on board. The NTU ambassadors were kind enough to guide us on board. The bus drove very slowly to NTU where on the way, the NTU Student union tour guide attempted to excite us a little and spur us up but yah, she failed miserably.
Upon arriving at NTU, we were each given a red bag with lotsa goodies in it (as shown in the photo below)
Well, that bag alone is heavy enough and we were like carrying it around to view the booths and stuff with additional materials added in as we strolled along and the NTU people give us more phamplets and stuff. By the end of the open house our red bag was twice as heavy.
Anyway, lets talk bout the booths first. We actually went around asking about the "cut off points" for the courses we are interested in. Well, most of the courses' unofficial cut-offs were like ABB or Bs and Cs but one guy from school of mathematical and physical science were like telling us their minimum cut offs through the cohorts were like AAB or AAA and stuff which the 3 of us were very skeptical about. Basically we just went around the booths asking the same question - cut off points. Well, its not that we were being direct or something but we were just being more realistic i think. Why get to know more about a course that we cannot even enter. Btw i think we were sorta like a little aware of what each course got to offer and our main concern really is whether we are eligible (via competition wif e whole cohort) to enter our desired course.
Anyway, we were like walking around inside and outside packed with people and stuff for quite some time when MK had to leave at 1pm. So me and julia bid goodbye to her while we went for the campus tour. We got onto the arranged minibuses and the bus send us around the school where we can chose to remain on board or alight. There were students ambassadors in the bus as well to give us a brief intro of the surrounding. The first stop was some library i think no one on the bus actually wanted to alight. Well, thats being very normal for why would we wanna go view the library which is so boring. Haha. At the second stop we were brought to Hall 16 where we can alight and visit the halls to experience hostle life. This i can say, everyone on the bus alighted. Hahaha. Coz we were more interested in hostles than library...like duh. Haha. And then we were splitted into 2 grps one to visit the the aircon hall one to visit the non aircon one. And when the student guide for the aircon hall (hall 16) say "who want to go see aircon hall visit me", everyone followed her leaving the non aircon hall one nobody. Thats like...so unanimous.
Anyway, the hall visit was fun as the Hall 16 JCRC came to walk us around their hostle. We get to see the pantry, single room, double room, toilets, showers, TV room, study room, etc...all the facilities in the hall. This is rather fun and eye-opening. We sorta walked alot and when our hall visit ended, we were like all tired waiting at ths busstop for the campus tour bus to come. It took that bus a long time to come and hence we hav to wait a very long time. Adding to it was that me and julia hasnt have lunch, were we like feeling hungry, hot and tired. Anyway the bus came where some familiar faces alighted...2305's people. We boarded the bus back where we past by many old old halls. This started to raise queries in our mind on the purpose of NTU to only plan visit to the newest hall - hall 16 rather than the rest. Haha.
Anyway, when we arrived back at the school of biological sci, we made our way through the walls of people only to reach the foyer to board a free feedle bus back to boon lay station. The queues there were long and unorganised. The two of us have to switch queues like 3 times, only to board a bus (finally) after like half an hour of queueing. That place starts to get chaos as more people arrived u see. Well, its the dragon batch, alot of pple yeah? Anyway, we went to have lunch at Jurong Point where I saw someone with the NUS open house bag. It is like almost the same lar, except for the logo and the colour. If not everything is the same that i suspect the 2 unis ordered their bags from the same manufacturer. To cut cost maybe? EOS bah. Haha. After lunch, we made our way back to the boon lay MRT under the hot scrotching weather and took a long train ride back to AMK.
Anyway, lets see whats in the open house bag that makes it so heavy...
Hmmm...lotsa phamplets and reading materials... they even give us a very thich copy of nu you magazine!!!
And yes, they provide mineral water with the NTU label !!! Haha. No wonder the bag is so heavy. Carrying it for hours walking around the huge campus under the hot scrotching sun is hell lotsa torture. Lol.
Anyway, i will be visiting NUS open house tml hopefully. My choice of course for both unis is sorta confirmed. Both courses in both unis dont need any interview and hopefully i get into NUS first choice bah. I was still telling Julia juz now about my dilema if they were to offer me NUS 2nd choice and NTU first choice. Haha. Then really i dunno how to chose... ...
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