A little whisper in the dark

Weird moods......

Having received info via IRC that the exam results were out, I went to check it out, lo and behold, there they were; I'd been awarded an A. My feelings then were odd: in a regular exam, I'd have been pretty chuffed about that A. After all, I don't get it often. I guess I was hoping for better, but expecting worse. To hear my lecturer say it, the grades are pretty good all round (got this info last week). So probably a lot of the classmates got their As too. It makes the grade less impressive, in my opinion. Be the best I can be, yeah, but you measure up to others. There's no exclusivity in an A which everyone else'd got as well.

Of course, I was expecting rather worse, having made a minor boo-boo on a question the external examiner asked, as well as the wildcard of the appraisal my attachment supervisor wrote of me. I did get a copy, but again, I didn't know how the rest were graded.

Competitive nature? Undoubtedly so. Whether it is now in school or later in the working world, we compete against others, and hence we must excel in our own individual ways such that we stand out.

Its not the person that makes the most noise, for even echos fade away. Its the one that left his mark by what he had done.

posted by Chung Leong @ 4:06 AM