What?

What happened to my hair?

When I wanted it to curl outwards (a bit like sticking out) so badly, my hair remained straight.

Now, when I want it to lie down on my head properly, it is sticking out in all directions instead. And no amount of water seems to be working!

Is this a sign that my hair is trying to rebel against me?

Hmmmm.......

Life

Things don't always go according to plans.

More often than not, things do not go the way you want it to be.

Maybe you will feel sad. Maybe you will feel disappointed. Maybe you will be depressed.

No matter what you feel. No matter how much you want it to change. What has been will remain.

Scream all you want. Cry all you want. Nothing will change.

Find comfort.

Then get up.

Get on with life.

Life does not stop just because something happened. Life IS a series of happenings.

You have a choice. To make yourself miserable or be happy.

Be grateful for what you already have. Do not fret over what you have lost. After all, how can you gain without first losing? :)

Life is wonderful.

Take all that it has to offer. And savour every moment of it.

Live life to the fullest!

It is much better to look back in life to say 'I'm glad I had' instead of 'I wish I had'. :)

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I wonder

I wonder.

If I am not a private student.

If I am a government sponsored student.

Would I still face the same fate?

Answer me.

Would I?

Rejected

I was rejected.

I was disappointed, to say the least. The first thought that crossed my mind was that my application rejected because it was late.

Then, I thought, was it because of my BMAT?

After being sad for a while, I thought, Oh, whatever. That university has never been that easy to get in anyway.

Then my BMAT results came out. Only 5.7 and 6.2 out of 9.0 for the first 2 sections, and only 7.5 out of 15.0 for my third section.

Good grief... Such lousy results!! They must have rejected me because of my results then.

However, after I got over the first bouts of depression, I compared my results to the graph showing the results for this year's BMAT.

Hmmm.....Though I can't say that my results are good, they are not that bad either! I'm considered average. So, why then was my application rejected? Did they require a much higher score than the one I got?

Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to request feedback from them as to why I was rejected.

After a few rounds of Dear Admissions Officers emails, I finally got the reason I was rejected.

your application was submitted on 20 October, five days after the deadline. Late applications are not considered.

Heaven help me!!!

That was not the end of it!

I got another rejection. From a comparatively lower ranking university when compared with the other universities I applied to. The reason being :

Unfortunately your application was submitted late
and therefore could not be considered. The deadline for applications is the
15th of October. We are not able to consider any late applicants.

I was totally shocked!

2 universities rejected me on the grounds that my application was late.

Is there even hope for the other 2 universities?

Didn't THEY say that they were going to sort out this problem for me? Didn't they say that they were going to personally inform the universities about the reason for the late application? Did they actually do that? Or was it all talk and no action?

To think, even the university which only looks at personal statements and results when considering candidates rejected me. Not that I think that I'm real good, but I seriously don't think that I can't even get an invitation for an interview.

To think, all my dreams of going to UK; all my hopes of getting offered a place by UK universities.......

Dashed.

And only because of a single mistake made by a single person.