Friday, December 6, 2013

Lesson learnt: Never take the easy way out

I haven't been posting much because I haven't really found the reason to.
Have thought of creating a food blog. Actually not so much a food blog as a platform for me to show people what a pig I have been.

On another note, I have been having second thoughts about what I'm doing.
I'm currently studying at Kaplan for a Communications & PR (double major) degree under Murdoch University.
But it's like… totally different from what I expected.
I was already initially very reluctant to further my studies.
But being a Singaporean and a victim of the education here, I'm almost sure that I probably wouldn't be able to survive without a degree.

So I thought I would just take any course just for the sake of it.
I already have something in mind for my future job(career) - the media industry.
I decided on Comms & PR solely because my diploma in TP was Communications & Media Management.
So like, obviously it would be easier compared to something irrelevant like Hospitality or Accountings, right?
But never in a million years would I expect it to be so difficult and tedious.

I really enjoyed what I studied in TP mainly because of the film modules like Film Theory & Criticism, Single and Multi Camera, Scriptwriting etc. Even the music modules like Radio Studio Productions and Audio Productions, and journalism modules like Journalism and Feature Writing.
But what I'm doing now in Kaplan has not much to do with any of those.
So, just about… 3 days before my exams, I'm contemplating on changing schools.
It's gonna suck because I've already paid for a trimester which is $4-5k?
And I already took 2 bridging lessons prior to the trimester.
And the school I'm considering is Laselle which is a LOT more expensive and has a longer duration.
My current total school fee is about $21k, but Laselle would be almost double.
And I would only take 16 months at the least, or 20 months, to complete my current double major degree but if I were to go to Laselle, I would take 3 years to complete a bachelor of arts in honours.
But the one thing which is probably the most important thing to me that I'm lacking right now is passion.

The dread I have facing what I have to go through for another 12-16 months is comparable to what I felt when I was in Year 1 in TPJC. And the feeling. Really. Sucks.

I really should have taken a gap year to think about what I wanted before I dived right into a convenient way out.

Should I just suck it up and continue down this path, or take the other?

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