Are you brave enough?(BLOG2)

                                                                Are you brave enough?

 Nowadays, I get to know something about USP (University scholars’ programme), which aims to help student develop a creative thinking, an innovative mind as well as an enterprise spirit. Anyone taking part into this programe can gain a comprehensive education including science, engineering, arts, law and social science. What’s more, all students in this programme can live in Utown halls for four years without any additional condition. Utown is a newly established area located in the Kent Ridge campus, which follows the example of American Liberal Arts College , integrating teaching places into living places. However, for those who do not participate into this programme, they should have enough CCA credits(which reflects whether you are active in hall activities)to ensure that they can remain in the hall after Year 1. Therefore, this programme may be more suitable for you if you want to put your full heart into study and do not want to distract yourself on finding suitable living places everywhere when you lose the qualification of living in the hall.

What should be emphasized is that there will be many reading and essay for you from economics, science, law to ethics if you take part in USP, hence, your study stress may be very heavy, especially for our Chinese students, who got Chinese education domestically and are not used to English essay writing or intensive English reading.

Are you interested in this programme? It takes our courage and braveness to make this choice and it lies in the problem whether we are brave enough to make this decision rather than whether we are able to manage it. Also ,we should consider whether we are suitable to this programme and whether we have the ability to deal with stressful life. It is we that make a better decision, so are you brave enough to apply for it?