Remember how a couple of years ago, after the STPM results were announced, a lot of complaints were filed and some were lucky to have their complaints highlighted in the media, which subsequently landed them in the “prestigious” universities, with courses that they only dreamt of doing?

You don’t? I do..

Every year, there were cases where top scorers from Sam Tet who were not offered a place in UM to do Medicine. I cannot recall exactly which year it was, but there was once where about 15 top scorers were denied a place in the local universities and all of them appeared in the papers, expressing their disappointment in the government, bla bla bla..

After a week or two, the same top scorers again appeared in the papers, but this time, they were busy thanking the government for allocating them places to do Medicine/Engineering in the public universities. These students also promised that they would do very well in the university, and that they would certainly serve the government upon graduation, bla bla bla..

But wait a minute. Do you see a different trend this year?

There’s a top student who is offered to do Medicine in USM Kubang Kerian, but she prefers to do it in UM because she cannot bear to leave her depressive Mum in KL. Another top scorer expressed her disappointment for not being offered a place in UM but in UKM instead to do Medicine. So do I have something to say to these 2 girls? Yes.

Look, there are a lot of people who could not even get into university. So if you have been offered a place to do your dream course, does it really matter at which university you do it?! If your ambition is to become a doctor, does it really matter whether you graduated from UM or UKM?! And if everybody wants to go to UM, we might as well merge ALL universities in Malaysia – then everybody will graduate from UM la, good idea or not?! If you were NOT offered a place in UM, it could probably mean that there are a lot of people who did better than you in STPM, or it could also mean that you did not fill up the application form as cleverly as other people did. Period. Now go pack your luggage and toiletries and stationery and get ready to register yourself at the university!

And then there’s this boy who obtained 3As and 1B who was disappointed for not being offered a place to do Medicine. My advice? Just pack your luggage and do Biotech at UMS instead. UMS is a big and nice university and they have their own jetty too!! :)

And then there’s this student whose CGPA was 2.7 and she was grumbling that she was not offered a place to do Microbiology and Biology-related courses but a friend of hers whose CGPA was 2.5 was offered a place to do Microbiology. My advice? Get on with life, my dear. Things do not, and will not, always go according to our plans. Nothing is fair anyway, just look at your own fingers, they are NOT of the same length, are they?!

*sigh*