June 9, 2007

• Prestigious?

  I slept very early last night.
  More like a nap though.
  Woke up around 4 something, to study.
  I'm not hardworking, just that I can study better at night. Hehe.

  Babyboy and I felt hungry, thus we drove to HungryJack's to buy brekkie at 6 in the morning.
  I can't remember when was the last time I was awake that early and had a proper brekkie. Hehe.
  And I LOVE HungryJack's brekkie meals.

  
  
  
  

  
  A good way to kick start the morning.

  Finals next week.
  I can't believe in 2 weeks time, I'll be going home.
  Woohoo.
  But it also means that I'm leaving Brissy for good already.

  It's a really mixed up feeling.
  Part of me can't wait to get back, another part is just thinking twice, thrice, on whether my decision is the right one.
  I just don't want to regret I guess.

  Was doing some search on the rankings of universities.
  And it just made me think more on whether I should leave.
  Because UniOfQueensland is like one of the prestigious uni in around.

  National Rank	University	Regional Rank (Asia Pacific)	World Rank
  1	Australian National University	3	54
  2	University of Melbourne	7	78
  3-5	University of Queensland	10-19	102-150
  3-5	University of Sydney	10-19	102-150
  3-5	University of Western Australia	10-19	102-150
  6	University of New South Wales	20-24	151-200
  7-9	Macquarie University	25-40	201-300
  7-9	Monash University	25-40	201-300
  7-9	University of Adelaide	25-40	201-300
  10-11	University of Newcastle (Australia)	41-63	301-400
  12-16	Flinders University	64-92	401-500
  12-16	James Cook University	64-92	401-500
  12-16	Murdoch University	64-92	401-500
  12-16	University of New England (Australia)	64-92	401-500
  12-16	University of Tasmania	64-92	401-500

  Taken from here*

  So does graduating at a prestigious university matter a lot?
  I'm not in anyway looking down at unis that are of lower ranking.
  It's just that the working world is just so realistic.
  If you graduate from a more prestigious uni, your application will thus be looked at 1st.

  I applied to Monash both in Melb and KL, as well as to Metropolitan under the CurtinUni program.
  Am not applying to HELP already as if I want to graduate with UQ's cert, I need to do my final year here at Brissy.
  And NetteDoll said that I shouldn't bother to apply to Sunway's VictoriaUni program as it's not that good.

  So my best choice is Monash only, as CurtinUni isn't one of the top unis.
  But I'm just worried that I won't be accepted to Monash.
  Not because my grades aren't good but because I stupidly missed my finals last semester.

  So there's a 2/Fail grade on my transcript.
  My CGPA would have been a 6 over the total of 7 if I hadn't miss the exam.
  And because of such a silly mistake, my CGPA is pulled down to 4.5.
  I feel so stupid and just pure silly. Sighs.

  And also I might try to apply to NationalUniversityofSingapore (NUS).
  It's like one of the most pretigious unis in AsiaPacific.
  I should really study harder if I really want to get in.
  As being one of the Top20UniversitiesInTheWorld, I'm sure their requirement is super high.

  World's Top 20 Universities
  1	Harvard University	11	University of Chicago
  2	University of Cambridge	12	Columbia University
  3	University of Oxford	13	Duke University
  4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	14	Beijing University
  4	Yale University	15	Cornell University
  6	Stanford University	16	Australian National University
  7	California Institute of Technology	17	London School of Economics and Political Science
  8	University of California, Berkeley	18	Ecole Normale Supérieure
  9	Imperial College London	19	National University of Singapore
  10	Princeton University	19	University of Tokyo

  Taken from here*

  Top 100 Global Universities

  1. Harvard University   
  2. Stanford University   
  3. Yale University   
  4. California Institute of Technology   
  5. University of California at Berkeley   
  6. University of Cambridge   
  7. Massachusetts Institute Technology    
  8. Oxford University   
  9. University of California at San Francisco   
  10. Columbia University   
  11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor   
  12. University of California at Los Angeles   
  13. University of Pennsylvania   
  14. Duke University   
  15. Princeton Universitty   
  16. Tokyo University   
  17. Imperial College London   
  18. University of Toronto   
  19. Cornell University   
  20. University of Chicago   
  21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich   
  22. University of Washington at Seattle   
  23. University of California at San Diego   
  24. Johns Hopkins University   
  25. University College London
  26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne   
  27. University Texas at Austin   
  28. University of Wisconsin at Madison   
  29. Kyoto University   
  30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities   
  31. University of British Columbia   
  32. University of Geneva   
  33. Washington University in St. Louis   
  34. London School of Economics   
  35. Northwestern University   
  36. National University of Singapore   
  37. University of Pittsburgh   
  38. Australian National University   
  39. New York University   
  40. Pennsylvania State University   
  41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   
  42. McGill University   
  43. Ecole Polytechnique   
  44. University of Basel   
  45. University of Maryland   
  46. University of Zurich   
  47. University of Edinburgh   
  48. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   
  49. University of Bristol   
  50. University of Sydney   
  51. University of Colorado at Boulder   
  52. Utrecht University   
  53. University of Melbourne   
  54. University of Southern California   
  55. University of Alberta   
  56. Brown University   
  57. Osaka University   
  58. University of Manchester   
  59. University of California at Santa Barbara   
  60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   
  61. Wageningen University   
  62. Michigan State University   
  63. University of Munich   
  64. University of New South Wales   
  65. Boston University   
  66. Vanderbilt University   
  67. University of Rochester   
  68. Tohoku University   
  69. University of Hong Kong   
  70. University of Sheffield   
  71. Nanyang Technological University   
  72. University of Vienna   
  73. Monash University   
  74. University of Nottingham   
  75. Carnegie Mellon University   
  76. Lund University   
  77. Texas A&M University   
  78. University of Western Australia   
  79. Ecole Normale Super Paris   
  80. University of Virginia   
  81. Technical University of Munich   
  82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem   
  83. Leiden University   
  84. University of Waterloo   
  85. King's College London   
  86. Purdue University   
  87. University of Birmingham   
  88. Uppsala University   
  89. University of Amsterdam   
  90. University of Heidelberg   
  91. University of Queensland   
  92. University of Leuven   
  93. Emory University   
  94. Nagoya University   
  95. Case Western Reserve University   
  96. Chinese University of Hong Kong   
  97. University of Newcastle   
  98. Innsbruck University   
  99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst   
  100. Sussex University

  Taken from here*

  That being said, it's a shame that Msia hving 18 unis and not one of it made to the list of Top500WorldUniRanking.
  There's a lil' article written by Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader, MP for Ipoh Timur & DAP Central Policy and Strategic Planning Commission Chairman.
  You can read the entire article here.

  Talked to my Daddycool about my concerns.
  And he said that if Monash won't take me in as a 2nd yr student, I shall start as a 1st yr student if that's what I want.
  But but, I don't want to waste another year and more money.
  And I'm really touched that my whole family is so supportive of me.

  That being said, what should I do?
  Should I stay back and continue in UQ even though that's not where my heart lies?
  Or should I go back to my comfort zone and risk wasting more time and money?
  All these questions and thinking is really disturbing me.

  Anyways, I should get back to studyin now after spending much time lazing around.
  And the weather now is super freakin cold.
  I can feel the cold air like circulating around the entire hse.
  Hope you guys will have a great weekend.

  
  Prestigious. Does it really matters?

  * you are the weakness in me. *

  . Much Love All .

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