Now that the hardest hurdle is over, life has been pretty much slack and at times boring. I've contemplated bringing my guitar in but i'm too lazy to carry it :P. I think I shall just bring it in to OCS next week. Thinking if I should perform for commissioning ball...can't think of a song or someone to do it with. puzzles.
So I was shortlisted for an Interview for Law at Oxford. Interview didn't go as i had imagined it. Skype interviews definitely remove a lot off the tension from the whole process. It's like being protected by the computer screen. Somehow, being in a place you're comfortable with (in this case my brother's room) you don't feel as nervous.You feel a sense of control over the whole thing. But then again, it's Oxford, so I guess it had to still be really hard. They asked questions that allowed them to see if you could reason and justify, and apply it to subsequent cases etc. For one, they asked if you and your friend had drinks at a bar and got really drunk. Your friend decides to go for a joy ride and you tag along. He crashes the car and you get injured. Can you sue your friend? I said yes, but I found it really hard to provide a justification for my answer that would carry on to the subsequent cases they gave me. They kept tweaking certain bits of the case so that your reason and justification couldn't hold in the next one.
The strange thing is, while I did apply for Law in the UK, i'm slowly becoming less excited about it and more excited at the prospects of studying computer science in the US. Slight dilemma there.
Been trying to keep up relationships and I find it really difficult for me. Maintaining conversations with multiple friends at one go is not easy, and I really think that Whatsapp which in a way has made communication so much more easier has become a bit of a bane. I feel disconnected from the people I am around with at the time especially when you have multiple conversations going on, on Whatsapp. You don't become fully absorbed into the social interaction that is happening between you and the person you are with. Imagine you are hanging out with your friend X and you have multiple conversations with A, B and C. It's like you're not talking to him but instead listening to X partially and talking to A, B, C of which X has no idea what's going on. Imagine A, B, C as little small people hovering around your head while you engage in a social activity with your friend X. I just find that over the years with the advent of instant messaging on smartphones, push messaging etc, we have lost the ability to hold our attention to one thing. I think the princples of social interactions are slowly shifting, slowly changing to something that i think will be difficult to grapple with given the our original ideas of how interactions should take place. Oh the next generation is going to be more different from us in many ways.
I also feel that because instant messaging like Whatsapp gets us talking all the time, social meetups aren't as valued anymore and when we do meet, the feeling of catching up with friends is slightly removed. To put it simply, conversations are becoming less meaningful and slightly dumb.
Just something i've been thinking about. Hmmm.
So I was shortlisted for an Interview for Law at Oxford. Interview didn't go as i had imagined it. Skype interviews definitely remove a lot off the tension from the whole process. It's like being protected by the computer screen. Somehow, being in a place you're comfortable with (in this case my brother's room) you don't feel as nervous.You feel a sense of control over the whole thing. But then again, it's Oxford, so I guess it had to still be really hard. They asked questions that allowed them to see if you could reason and justify, and apply it to subsequent cases etc. For one, they asked if you and your friend had drinks at a bar and got really drunk. Your friend decides to go for a joy ride and you tag along. He crashes the car and you get injured. Can you sue your friend? I said yes, but I found it really hard to provide a justification for my answer that would carry on to the subsequent cases they gave me. They kept tweaking certain bits of the case so that your reason and justification couldn't hold in the next one.
The strange thing is, while I did apply for Law in the UK, i'm slowly becoming less excited about it and more excited at the prospects of studying computer science in the US. Slight dilemma there.
Been trying to keep up relationships and I find it really difficult for me. Maintaining conversations with multiple friends at one go is not easy, and I really think that Whatsapp which in a way has made communication so much more easier has become a bit of a bane. I feel disconnected from the people I am around with at the time especially when you have multiple conversations going on, on Whatsapp. You don't become fully absorbed into the social interaction that is happening between you and the person you are with. Imagine you are hanging out with your friend X and you have multiple conversations with A, B and C. It's like you're not talking to him but instead listening to X partially and talking to A, B, C of which X has no idea what's going on. Imagine A, B, C as little small people hovering around your head while you engage in a social activity with your friend X. I just find that over the years with the advent of instant messaging on smartphones, push messaging etc, we have lost the ability to hold our attention to one thing. I think the princples of social interactions are slowly shifting, slowly changing to something that i think will be difficult to grapple with given the our original ideas of how interactions should take place. Oh the next generation is going to be more different from us in many ways.
I also feel that because instant messaging like Whatsapp gets us talking all the time, social meetups aren't as valued anymore and when we do meet, the feeling of catching up with friends is slightly removed. To put it simply, conversations are becoming less meaningful and slightly dumb.
Just something i've been thinking about. Hmmm.
