but short blogging break cause it just hit me: people in my school get retained for things such as not enough CIP hours or an unsatisfactory philosophy paper.
However there're people in the normal stream getting retained for actual bad grades. I mean, it doesn't make much sense to me if we're getting retained for something less consequential to our future jobs (unless we're philosophers or charity fund associates) while those in the normal stream are actually getting retained because their academic ability is low and they would not be able to find decent jobs otherwise.
We, on the other hand, are in the IP stream - I don't mean to sound complacent or elitist - and stand a fairly larger chance of landing a job even if we aren't as strong as compared to the rest of the IP cohort. Because it's the IP cohort. They're all smart.
Just because you're the low end of the top 10% in Singapore doesn't make you stupid, it makes you less smart than the top 9%. Which, by all accounts, is already very impressive.
So what the heck is going on with this retaining shit.
Monday, September 14, 2009
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