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I must admit I am embarrassed to say yes, I got into Cambridge. What about you, do you plan to study in the UK as well? (I wonder whether now your dream country (UK) is still where you are planning to study ) (since the fees are expensive! And I still don't have a scholarship yet...)

If you want to talk about it, PM me. I'll be around. Either way, hang in there.

Hi! Sorry for not responding sooner I'm relatively okay right now. You?

my last IMO (math contest) is done, and i didnt do well again..

Right now i am preparing for university by leanring some undergraduate math. But still i am sad because of my bad perfomance.

i am also practicing chopin ballade no 4 recently after the contest, the mood somewhat fits

I have made everyone who had high hopes on me dissapointed.

What about you? How have you been? It has been a long time since we last keep in touch.

Oh dear, no no no!!! If that's the case why am I not chosen ??!!! (I don't think every scholarship want scientists, at least none of those that I applied!)

I have also been very careful with my writing as well (even if my language isnt really good). I actually went on to ask my parents to check the grammar lol. I really don't know what do they look for in scholarships.

Have fun canoeing!

Thank you so much! Someone else found it for me so I can't take all the credit. But thank you so much! <3
I might keep it on all month because I mean, other people celebrate their birth month. I should too.

Well my fever just gone down since yesterday, should be fine.

Most scholarships do look at the academic results, but I think this is the easy part of the scholarship application.

The worst part is the "unknown criteria" that they use to filter the students they wish to offer the scholarship. I don't know what are those qualities that they look for to be honest. Like for example, what does it mean to have "leadership qualities", "independent", "charismatic", and so on, I don't see how they can determine whether a person have these qualities just by a few rounds of interviews. (Worse still, I don't even know whether these are the only qualities they look for!)

Moreover, I never even passed the first round in any scholarship application, that means they rejected me based on the online submission form I filled in. I wonder what is the reason why I got rejected by all the scholarships that I had spent days to complete... What is the "qualities" that I am actually lacking?

School with less academics tend to have less homeworks and thus I am never keen on going to a good school. I believe that not even the school or the teachers can affect my results, only my hardwork will. So I went to a relatively "bad" school for my primary and secondary. I don't see any "bad" from it, in fact the benefit I got is that I have a lot more time to do my interests, instead of attending to the huge pile of homework/assignments everyday.

I think that in such schools, the students are less focused on academics, hence they have more time to socialize? This is possibly why you might find them more friendlier? In any case, it's good for you to have a better enviroment to study, and a big factor comes from your classmates!

I never went to a schooltrip before, so I can't tell you to have fun since I never experience one, but I hope you are at least looking forward to it. Sounds like it's a good way to de-stress, and if you can try to make friends wih your classmates!

Hi, how have you been?

I have been accepted since January! But the problem is i cant get enough scholarships to go to the university. I am not sure if spending most of the family's money just to go for this uni is okay or not, because i should be the one responsible for the lack of money in future, but i am really not making a single cent from the scholarship applications.

there is another uni which i have secured a full scholarship so this will be my backup, but i really hope i wont have to resort to this university.

well this is talking about lifelong dedication here! Also i certainly have no skills on how to be her carer for now, especially i am going to uni soon. What i mention about this will be something after my graduate at least. (Although the problem still remains: who will look after her during the 3 to 4 years?)

i took a lot of rest today since i had fever yesterday and i feel bad for sleeping since the morning till night. i will practice more now at least before i sleep again.

I am sorry because i noticed it has been a lot about me. I learnt that conversation cannot be one sided, so i must not always talk about myself. What about you? How is school (academically and non academically?)

I am embarassed to name the university. It starts with C.. But yeah it is the UK haha. i will start uni from this september onwards.

I am fine, my parents decided to divorce once i start my university but i will be fine. I am worried about how taking care my sister but what i think is that i will eventually take over the responsibility so it will be ok. I wont have to worry if i do it myself.

But today i failed a math test and i am angry lol so right now i am practising more math so that i wont fail the next test.

(i think recently i am gaining some interest back in math, but this time i do care about what will happen if i am obvlious to the world outside math because i know how terrible it is if i lose interest in math again. i am still trying to regain my interest fully so that i wont be depressed.)