| buying time |
Oct. 2nd, 2009|01:35 pm |
Peer pressure whether positive or negative tends to have the ability to make you forget about yourself. Suppose a girl constantly mixes with a crowd that bitches all day, clubs all night, its just a matter of time before she forgets who she really is. In time, she starts to believe in the ideology of the group and believe that what she wants/suscribes to, is what the group wants also.
If I had a better command of english, I might have interpreted the previous paragraph better but I do hope you (my dear readers) understand the point I was trying to bring across.
Over the past few weeks, I have becomed abit too high-headed. The fact that my current grades can make the cut for schools like Oxford has made me lose sight of how far & how hard Ive worked to come this far. I have forgotten that when people put in 2 solid hours of work, I would need to put in 4 hours. When people say the exam is easy, dont worry! I forget that we are worlds apart in terms of academic intellect and that I require more time to synthesize and process facts/figures etc.
A good example is the GRE. While others have no problems scoring 800/800 for the math section, I am still finding it difficult to get a score over 700! (which is 85% of the qns correct). Its quite humiliating to speak to people about this problem because they dont have such a problem, however that doesnt mean it is not MY problem. It is a an issue and it can be solved. With much deliberation, I have decided to postpone my GRE to the end of this month (i have done so already and it costed me US50 bucks), so that I have more time to practise for my math and improve on it. Im pretty sure I can do well for the math section and I aim to practise more.
This entry is written to remind myself that everytime I think its going to be easy, I should slap myself with a frozen salmon and re-consider my thoughts. The road to success (depends on how you define it also) is different for everyone.
enough random thoughts for now. |
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