Interviews
I was reading through one of Samuel Ravi's blog entries on his two rounds of interview for his entrance to NUS Medicine.
Suddenly I felt scared.
It just dawned upon me that I have not done interviews for quite some time already, and now I am apprehensive about doing this thing that was once so familiar, this thing that I was once so confident about doing.
And knowing that you had done pretty well in previous interviews will only make you more nervous.
Okay, I was being partially delusional. But delete my experince with the group of PSC scholarship interviewers, I think I really did well in interviews.
As the new round of scholarship application begins for the 2008 'A'-Level graduates, I have to handle the stress and anxiety of interview preparation once again. This time round, I am gunning for the Nanyang Scholarship.
Only applying for one scholarship this time round. So it's either all or nothing for this year.
Relax. That's what people would advice me, and what I would advice people before they step into the interview room. Indeed, I was pretty relaxed and even walked into the interview room for the Prime Minister's Book Prize with absolutely zero hope and desire of winning the prestigious prize -- since I thought that competition would be really tough and I would have no chance in getting it at all -- but ironically, I became one of the four winners for my year.
Yet, when you want something so badly, you could hardly retain your composure.
I wanted the PSC scholarship pretty badly then. Okay, I admit. It was for the attractive salary package and the prestige that is attached with it -- the "Hey-I'm-a-PSC-scholar prestige. But isn't all these what people want from scholarships?
About $50,000. That's how much Nanyang Scholarship is worth.
I need to get this scholarship. I need it.
Suddenly I felt scared.
It just dawned upon me that I have not done interviews for quite some time already, and now I am apprehensive about doing this thing that was once so familiar, this thing that I was once so confident about doing.
And knowing that you had done pretty well in previous interviews will only make you more nervous.
Okay, I was being partially delusional. But delete my experince with the group of PSC scholarship interviewers, I think I really did well in interviews.
As the new round of scholarship application begins for the 2008 'A'-Level graduates, I have to handle the stress and anxiety of interview preparation once again. This time round, I am gunning for the Nanyang Scholarship.
Only applying for one scholarship this time round. So it's either all or nothing for this year.
Relax. That's what people would advice me, and what I would advice people before they step into the interview room. Indeed, I was pretty relaxed and even walked into the interview room for the Prime Minister's Book Prize with absolutely zero hope and desire of winning the prestigious prize -- since I thought that competition would be really tough and I would have no chance in getting it at all -- but ironically, I became one of the four winners for my year.
Yet, when you want something so badly, you could hardly retain your composure.
I wanted the PSC scholarship pretty badly then. Okay, I admit. It was for the attractive salary package and the prestige that is attached with it -- the "Hey-I'm-a-PSC-scholar prestige. But isn't all these what people want from scholarships?
About $50,000. That's how much Nanyang Scholarship is worth.
I need to get this scholarship. I need it.
小权纯裕郎 自作自秀@at
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