Being a Student in Singapore

I fucking hate being a student here. I lived here my whole life and it's not great at all unless you're rich or smart. I'm studying in polytechnic and despite what everyone told me it sucks, we barely have free time and every failure we have literally traps us further in this hellhole of a cramped and fast-paced country. The teachers don't teach, they toss work at us and expect us to figure it out ourselves, scolding us if we're wrong and failing us if we don't finish it on time.

Every free moment if either studying or doing projects. If I wanted to take a mental-health break I can't because there's no MC for that, I can't just tell the doctor I'm stressed and about to break down and expect get a day off, furthermore if I went to the wrong doctors and get the wrong MC it's not counted and the money I spent going to the doctors is wasted.

I didn't even get to choose what I'm doing, I didn't get a good grade in O levels(18pts) so I was made to attend polytechnic (seriously who even makes 16-year-olds choose their future??????) in a course I barely have any passion for, if I stayed back a year I would be made fun of and my siblings would constantly belittle me if I continued I won't get a good grade and be trapped in Singapore with nothing but a specialised degree and a dead-end job.

My parents aren't well off so I can't take IB or private candidate for A levels and if I transferred to MI it's gonna be hell because all my friends there say it's hell as well. Fuck everything, I wish I was born in a country with a straight line of education or being landmass so I'm not constantly trapped in this monotoned grey.

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anonymous School February 28, 2020 at 5:29 am 0 0