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Year: 2011

Internship 101

January 16, 2011 by Zoe Leave a Comment

So, according to my senior Fiona, it’s very difficult to get internship with life sciences companies after February and hence I started sending out emails to Principal Investigators.

I received the first reply from a Prof and I was so excited that I thought his reply meant that I was accepted into their research internship programme. But he reminded me that I was being overly anxious, and that I had to undergo an interview before they decide if I can join their team.

Then 2 other profs replied, I got confused and troubled. Am I supposed to go for all of them? Or am I supposed to just put all my eggs into one basket and hope it’s not a broken one? What if I got into all 3? How do I reject the ones which I less prefer, when they had already accepted me? I have never been so anxious about internship before.

My interview is this coming Tuesday, and I’m scared out of my wits. What are they going to ask me? Will I be able to present myself appropriately, and am I suitable (smart enough) for their team?

I’m reading up on their research and hopefully I will think of some intelligent questions for the prof who will be interviewing me.

I am DAMN SCARED. So this is how you feel when you try to step out of your comfort zone. It’s not as easy as people think, whenever they say, “This is the year when I’m going to step out of my comfort zone.” It actually entails facing your  fears head on and dealing with whatever that comes. You’ll face the unknown, and that’s hell of a scary thing.

But I guess if I have the end in mind, which is hopefully a time of constant learning and benefitting from the internship, I am more willing to jump into it.

Wish me luck!

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Posted in: Biology, Business Tagged: Biotechnology, cancer biology, Education, Internship, interviews, work

Easy + High + No sense of awareness = 1 wasted girl

January 5, 2011 by Zoe Leave a Comment

I was reading the Chinese newspapers and this particular news caught my attention.

A girl went clubbing and got drunk, accepted a ride home from a stranger, but got more than what she’d bargained for. The man brought her back to his home and forced her to have sex with him before he would allow her to go home.

The girl doesn’t know where she is, doesn’t know how to go home, because she had been too tipsy to realise something was wrong.  A friend had seen her dancing intimately with the alleged rapist in the club earlier on.

In the end the girl was sent home by a sweeper in his motorcycle with a sidecar.

What would I say about this? It is just plain disgraceful.

What do you expect after you tried to arouse a guy by dancing intimately with him in the club? Bodies glued together, hips gyrating in the same motion.

Sure, you think you’d get away, because that’s what everyone is doing, isn’t it? No, you’re wrong. Girls just don’t think bad stuff would happen to them, and that’s one of the main problems with Singaporean girls. They simply do not have awareness.

I have friends who club every week and sometimes accept rides home from males who drive. To them, it may be for convenience’s sake, to for the guy, I wouldn’t be so sure. By accepting rides from people you met at the club, you may appear to them as loose, and ‘easy’. That would increase the likelihood of the guy pulling some stunt, like that one above. Did I mention that they would also most probably be tipsy after downing all that jugs of alcohol?

Easy + High + No sense of awareness = 1 wasted girl.

I know I’m gonna sound like a mother nagging, but I’m still gonna say it. Sure, getting high and dancing to the loud music in clubs may be your cup of tea, but don’t accept rides home from strangers!

Whatever happens in the club stays in the club, don’t bring it home.

Call a cab, approach the bouncers at the club to call a cab for you if you’re too wasted to do so. If you have money to go clubbing so often, you definitely have money for a cab ride home.

Don’t be an accident waiting to happen, and when it does, cry and lament. Nobody will pity you because you do not love yourself in the first place. The only people you’ll hurt most are your parents and yourself.

Be more responsible for your own safety!

Read the STOMP article on the case I mentioned here.

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