One day I woke up and realised that having a blog requires a certain degree of responsibility and commitment.

To update frequently.

Well, well. Its been a week since the last entry hasn't it? Time sure flies when you're often trying to maximise the utility of every hour. I mean we only have so much time to study, go for a meeting or some other, go for sports, watch anime, etc. But enough with that rant. All this talk about being overworked is getting a bit tired.

Speaking about talks, the ones by them university speakers were, well, interesting. Those that presented were Edinburgh (its in Scotland. Think Sean Connery. In a kilt.), Imperial (Very Good. Better still if you have 300 pounds to spend a week. That's just for accomodation.) Southampton (Claims their extensive optical wires research paved the way for the internet. Well, in that case I've got a bone to pick with them about our net.) and Bristol (No Comment. By the time I decided to pay attention it was already over.)

They were all the same; 1) They speak only good things about their universities (ratings, student-educator ratio, research), 2) They speak good things about our seniors (and how good their results were in that university), and 3) They almost almost always end up by saying it doesn't really matter which university to choose, since our sponsors (JPA, MARA, PETRONAS, PNB, TNB, KPM, FAMA) and our college (KYUEM) will only let us apply to the good ones.

So, what did we learn from going to 4 similar talks a week of roughly 2 hour sessions (though it feels like never-ending) ? Except clever marketing skills (You have to be funny and interesting. And you must show us nice pictures. But even that's getting routine.), well nothing new. And even if we somehow missed any of the talks, we can still find out about them at the UK Education Fair this weekend (which I think is strongly recommended for all juniors to attend. in other words, GO!)

At least that was my summation of the talks, from an engineering point of view. I'm not sure about the medics, but theirs are probably along the same lines ( "To be honest, its really really tough to get in. After all, you only have four spaces in your UCAS form. But we'd be honoured if you'd waste one for us. It makes us look good." )

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As I was typing this last night, the MidValley trip people still had not returned. They're probably having too much fun and didn't want to come back.
Turns out the Banting people weren't back yet either. Maybe they too were having too much fun. Hmm.