If all goes well....

2nd of December I would know if I have officially graduated with my Masters in Biomedical Engineering. I have lost 1.5 years of working time already, it is about time I play catch up.

I know I am definitely no role model student, not the brightest of all, never seen straight As in my life and never really got anything much right.
Till now.
Well kind of, for the last 2 semesters at least.
I finally found what I can excel in and that is the human body. I can relate better to medical terms, how the body functions and how medical devices can help improve the quality of life for patients suffering. If only I found out earlier, I wouldn't need to suffer 4 years studying Electrical, well make it 3 because I did Biomedical Electronics in the last year and that was the best time of my life in NTU, when everything seems to be making sense and generating interest to me.

Moving on to reality, this transition, is definitely not going to be easy initially. I have seen how my friends struggled to find jobs, not receiving any response from companies, sending out countless resumes till you don't even know which company you have applied for. Well I am at the tip of it only, I have just started sending out my resumes and writing cover letters trying to customize it to suit the different job scopes.

Being an Engineer, I realized there are many paths I could take and they vary very broadly from being a sales engineer to a product engineer to a product specialist to a medical technologist to a regulatory affairs specialist and so on. Well I am pretty keen in the last 2 jobs. I can see myself doing those jobs, at least they are related to what I study and what I like. I do hope to land a job in either of these 2 areas.

Welcome to the working world for me.

No more snuggling under the sheets when I feel like it.
No more depending on my parents, they have provided so much for me and I am very thankful for it. Thank you all for being supportive, believing in me and giving me this opportunity to study here. I hope I have done you both proud. (:

As the days passes by, I have been slowly clearing up my room, packing my luggage, cleaning the house, it feels like I just arrived here again, the empty table and the empty bed.

It feels weird actually.

This post was written before I returned back to SG.... but I didn't have the time to finish it...