Liyi’s Blog

2 months left… Part 1 06/03/2009

It’s exactly 2 months left to go in NUS. Suddenly life felt so fast – freshman days was like yesterday. A few days ago, NUS Career Centre sent me the Career 2009 & Education 2009 Fair brochure, which reminded me of the same event 4 years ago…

I was a fresh ‘A’ Level holder then. ‘A’ level results was released just a while ago, and I was glad that I passed my General Paper. Ready to go for a university that I will like to do as a major, I stepped into the Career 2005 & Education 2005 and walked around. Somewhat, I was very very interested in game designing and animation, because I myself was a gamer . I chose SoC in the end because 1) I like IT since young and 2) there’s Communications and new media where I somewhat can achieve what I wanted – game designing and animation. So, I was quite happy (and still am) when I got into SoC..

Before I got myself matriculated, I went for the Computational Biology application and interview because I like the idea of computing and biology together. Also named as Bioinformatics, I think it will be a crucial field in the future, thus I got Comp Bio as my major (and at the same time, trying to pursue as much media related stuff as possible). As Comp Bio was quite new back then and I was like the 2nd batch of Comp Bio majors, none of my seniors could tell me what’s in store for me for my major.

I joined the Freshman Orientation Week then and learnt a lot of stuff from seniors – from course stuff to job finding for the future. Many would say it’s not that important to plan for your job finding yet as a freshman, such as learning to write your resume, networking and making more friends.. but I’m lucky to know these seniors which really offer good advice. Especially on the networking part, where making more friends would “increase” your chance of getting the job you want.

Story to be continued..