A student has posted on FB about being ashamed of her SIM education and wonders if her peers think the same way.
She feels that the education from SIM will not be able to meet her lofty life goals and ambitions in terms of education and career.
Here is what she said:
“I don’t know whether some of you are ashamed that you guys are studying at SIM (To those of you that views education just as important as your parents and have sizable/lofty life goals and ambitions in terms of education and career/ GPA >= 3.00).
Honestly, I am ashamed that I am currently studying in SIM and I am ashamed to tell my friends and probably people that I meet in the future. My GPA is above 3.00 which I find it is respectable to an extent (not 1st rate peeps from 3.7 to 4.0).
With my GPA, I firmly believe that I can get into SIT (diff case for me as I am neither Singaporean or PR).
This has unfortunately become a deep rooted insecurity for myself. To the older asian generation (singapore context), SIM is viewed as where academic underachievers (fail O level/A level) enroll or those who don’t view education as a paramount importance.
I have heard people around me talk about this about 5 years ago.
I know, I know. The situation at SIM has improved recently with the establishment of connections to industries to provide students with internship opportunities to boost employability upon graduation.”
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