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Happy… Or not (??)
25 October 2005There are various situations that I end up not knowing whether I am happy. Sometimes, it gets so confusing I even feel that half of me is jumping for joy while the other half is in depression. Yeah, I may just have bipolar disorder. The recent *PMS Matching is one good example of such a situation.
Now that the initial excitement is over and I can calm down and take stock of the current situation, I don’t really know whether I am happy. Going to Queen’s is not the issue here. It is my second choice. Of course it would have been better if I had gotten my first, but second is cool too. See? I’m an easily satisfied girl.
The unhappiness of the situation stems from seeing people around me being unhappy. Many of my batchmates did not get their first choice. While there are some, like me, who don’t mind getting second or third choices, there are others who have only a particular University that they want to go to, and for these people, second or third just doesn’t make the cut. Then there are others who get their even lower ranked choices, or get posted to another continent altogether. This is especially the case for people who want to go to UK**. It may not necessarily be that their results, ECA or narrative isn’t good (some of them are actually quite outstanding), we just don’t know the reason. Some are resigned to fate while others are appealing for a change. I hope that those who appeal get their University of choice, and those who don’t, learn to like the place they are going to.
Then of course, with Matching results being released, the we-gonna-split-up situation seems more real than ever, and that is just plain sad. Sigh…
*PMS stands for Partner Medical Schools. And in the PMS Matching Exercise, we rank IMU’s partner universities in order of preference from 1 to 22. (Or 1 to 24 for people who plan to take USMLE or hold a bachelor degree)
**Many from my batch want to go to UK. That was why most people took ‘A’ Levels and ended up in the M2 batch to begin with. But somehow, there are less UK seats allocated to M2 batches. Bah.
on October 25th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
hey northerner! when are you coming down south again? must meet up with us soon!
-southern batchmate
on October 26th, 2005 at 9:02 am
Southerner, soon lah. I’ll be in JB during the Hari Raya period but I don’t know if I’ll be going to the southern island. Meet up with you all in January can? I’ll be very free then, can meet up for days if you like. heehee.
on October 27th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
Happy … Or Not
The anxiety of going to school….