the last time i fully participated in organizing an event in school seems such a long time ago. but it was one of the things i always jumped at, as part of what i wanted to do in university, which was to try EVERYTHING. that was back in year 1 and 2. i'm year 3 now (oh, the horror!!! i dont want to graduate anytime soon...) and i got lazy. well...with exchange coming up and all, i didnt really want to do so many things anymore, considering how every day was a mad rush when i was in my first two years. no doubt, it was an enormous amount of fun, and extremely satisfying and fulfilling. but i wanted to take things easy and spend more time with friends & family etc. well, that didnt exactly work out the way i'd expected - year 3 sem 1 as i previously mentioned (i think?) seemed as crazy hectic as any other semester i'd been through, despite the fact that i was doing a lot less. and till now, i dont really understand why. but i hope that my last two semesters (after i get back from exchange) would either be chill, or rushed, the way i would like it to be (rather than uncontrolled madness -.-). anyway, i digress. haha. the point of this post is AUDACITY2013!!!! :)
so when last semester scott asked me & a few other friends to be in the organizing committee of this inaugural career symposium one of our profs was intending to organize, i was pretty excited! but i was also thinking that i wanted to relax, so i was having some internal debate about it. but i decided to go for it in the end, since i couldnt stand NOT having anything else other than studying in my school life. and i'm so glad i did. the way it turned out, the final event we had, makes me so proud of what we did, cos i think it was really meaningful, and i enjoyed all the moments we shared as a team :))
Audacity 2013 is the first nation-wide career symposium that reached out to undergraduates from SMU, NUS, NTU, SIM, SIT, SUTD, and even had participants as young as A level graduates who hadnt entered university yet! the purpose of this inaugural symposium was to show students that it is possible to break out of the cycle, to go beyond what their degree dictates and pursue what they are truly interested in. i guess the biggest reason why i agreed to organize this event was because this resonates with me. unfortunately what i'm studying is not the career i intend to pursue, at least for part of it i'm pretty sure, the other half i'm still so-so but i really dont know whether i'll fit. so yeah. this event was really inspirational for me, to hear our speakers from different educational backgrounds, different careers (some very prestigious ones) going off the traditional career paths to do something NEW, BOLD and most importantly, what they LOVED. i always think it's very admirable to pursue your passion to the end. i guess this is something that i need to work on for myself - i dont know what i REALLY want. i know i'm interested in a lot of things, but i dont know where i really want to end up for my career. is it because i havent found a place that fits me? or is it just because i'm never satisfied where i am? :( i dont know :(
but anyway, this career symposium showed me that these people eventually found their calling. their passion. where they wanted to be. and this encourages me. that i still have one year to figure this out, and even if i don't it's not the end of the world. and it was such fun organizing this event! :))) i'm really the lazy kind who hates dragging my ass to meetings, and mind you, since i'm not having classes in SMU this semester, it's the weirdest feeling coming to school. plus there arent many familiar faces around since so many people are on exchange/6month internships. booo. but i had to much fun with this bunch of people! definitely a huge huge part of it was having ngan & scott there, whom i'm so comfortable with ^^ and then getting to know my prof (and his wife!) better was definitely something unexpected. and to think i used to think he was terribly intimidating haha. and i made new friends as well, which was really nice :)
our team with Adrian Pang (he was our closing speaker!!) hehe everyone was SO EXCITED to take a photo with him. and he's really nice! :)
big thanks to the hopers who came down to support ^^ and my darling of course, who was one of the earliest, and bought breakfast for me <3 :*
oh oh! and omg how could i forget. haha. it was the first time ever that i got the chance to moderate a panel! ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING EXPERIENCES REALLY. it was a stepping-out-of-my-comfort-zone kind of decision, and i didnt think too much about it, until scott kept being so nervous about his panel and scaring me -.- haha. and i was literally trembling when i went on stage in the end. until i forgot how to use the mic at the start, and totally embarrassed myself when my mind went blank when i was supposed to introduce the speakers and babbled some nonsense. i swear i wanted to dig a hole and jump in haha. my voice was so wobbly and i just tumbled over my words, sped past the introduction and asked the first question so that i could pass on the time to my speakers instead of having the attention on me. GOSH. embarrassing ttm. i could totally hear my heart pounding in my ears for the next 5min or so, but eventually i calmed down, and i think things improved tremendously from there and went pretty smoothly :) *phew* some people actually told me i did quite well (but err..haha maybe they were being nice. i just couldnt get over how my first 5min was sooooooooo terrible. but thankfully, i recovered haha. so i guess it wasnt that bad after all).
so that was my first TRY this year :) cheers to an audacious year ahead! :)
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