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Daddy’s boy

I reminisce, my journey to Trinity College Dublin was not as simple as one might think. I was not even in Ireland bound group before when I was in my preparation college. We have too big a number to be given an equal chance or free choice to any countries that we would like to go, therefore we are placed in groups based on possible countries we might fly in to, for example Aussie-NZ bound, UK bound, and Ireland bound. I chose to be placed in UK bound, too much EPL i guess, that makes me think UK is the ‘right’ choice. I had given my best (maybe) to get a place in one of 4 UK universities that I applied to. Those 4 universities were Newcastle Upon Tyne, Aberdeen, Liverpool and I couldn’t remember the last one. All in all, I couldn’t imagine how much effort i put up to get a place and to be told that none of my applications UCAS successful. Continue reading