Carol's Cottage

Hello again! In this blog post, I'll be writing about why I had to reject UCL in more detail. I briefly mentioned this in my last post , so if you haven't read it yet, please do so! If you want to of course :D Why I Wanted to Go to UCL If I'm being COMPLETELY, 100% honest with you, my main goal with applying for universities was that I just wanted to study in the UK. At the time of applying, I really wanted to go to Cambridge. It has been a dream of mine since I was a kid to be accepted into Oxbridge, even though deep down I knew I didn't stand a chance. Since we had to choose 5 universities to apply to, I had to pick which universities to go to for the other 4. I didn't really do much research on the other UK universities because I was so dead-on applying to Cambridge. Nonetheless, after doing a bit of research, I ended up really liking UCL because their modules were so interesting to me. Oh and the campus? Beautiful. Gorgeous. I really can see myself studying th...

On June 5th this year, I had just gotten back to Sabah, after being in my college for about 10 months without going back home during that time period. I had finally graduated from Kolej Yayasan UEM, after doing 2 years of A-level studies. Even though our batch did not have any formal graduation ceremony (it all got disrupted due to the pandemic), it was still a huge moment up to this point in my life that I realized I was finally going to end the most exciting yet the hardest and most painful 2 years of my life. In this blog post, I will be writing about what it was like studying at one of Malaysia's premier colleges. I will be dividing these 2 years into 4 different stages (one stage for each semester) because it really felt like living through 4 different TV show seasons when I was studying there. General view on what studying in KY was like : One of the best experiences of my life. I got to meet so many amazing people there like everyone was so unbelievably nice, and smart to...