IN SLICED BREAD

Being granted the APEX University status, USM had been soaring up high - not only to justify the stature, but also to set examples toward others too. Many have been done for this purpose but currently the desasiswa application is the hottest cake!



As you can see, the peaceful, soothing week of exam -where students from all walks of years, be it the seniors & the juniors are busy burning their midnight oils - suddenly, compelled to an outburst of knowing the fact... that about a quarter of all the students particularly the undergrads are being rejected from staying in the desasiswa for the next semester!

Some people suggested that the selection were based on merits - the more you contribute to the Univ, the more points you have & the better chance you'll be in the list.

To my dismayed, that hypothesis seems to be flawed because true as it maybe, some who are not involving in any activities at all - let alone representing the Univ elsewhere - are now happily celebrating their joyous victory of being selected when others - who really deserved the place - are in one of their greatest sorrow reminiscing the countless days of hard work - be it in International level, Univ level, School level, Desa level etc. - giving the very best of them for the sake of the Univ.

Yet, these people are being rejected? If it's to be selected randomly, then, who's finger it is to trigger the random button? There must be someone, somewhere doing it off stage unless you are implying that our computer is automatically operated 24/7.

Again, random acts required sorting. Even if it did found to be sorted randomly, then this leads to another questionable doubt, is this how an APEX Univ. doing their job in coherent to the USM's credo "We Lead"?

This conundrum leads me to have my say.

First of all, let me be straight here, I don't know what others might think @ expect, but me myself as part of those who have rolled my dice & played my card feel that I deserved to be rewarded at least, for the desasiswa enrollment. Like it @ not, nothing's free in this world! *Even air suam will cost you 10cent in Halim Cafe*

Actually, I'm not against the system - eventhough wasting my time in this crucial exam week - but, the improper selection of students & time of implementation of all this crap by the system is mainly the cause of this much stirred feelings.

We (the current students esp. undergrads) understand greatly of what it takes to be the so-called country's first Ivy League institution but we cannot simply just pretending to be calm & laid back when thing especially as important as the desasiswa application is off hand.

Some said "We have done a lot for this & that and now they are all bygones... hopefully, they'll review the selection and God's willing, we'll have our desa... it's hard to live outside, so many constraints, rental price increases doublefold overnight...bla, bla, bla..."

I'm no master in "mitigated speech" like others but from what I understand, all this voices simply mean that WE NEED OUR DESA BACK!

Till the next posting.

p/s Still, Butterscotch Bread is my favorite...