Denise's College Archive

As we enter the end of 2020, I spent some time thinking about my life goals and my New Year’s resolution. This year wasn’t as smooth as I thought it would be. With the global pandemic going on, I realised I’ve taken so many things for granted . While there are things that I‘ve achieved despite being indoors such as making new friends and becoming an executive committee in an academic club, I still have some things in my bucket list I want to cross out and wishes I hope will come true. So join me as I lay out 5 hopes I have for 2021, and I would appreciate it if you can pray for these dreams of mine to realise, I’ll gladly do the same for you! First and foremost, I’m sure this goes the same for everyone, I would like to see the end of COVID-19. Seeing how the vaccines are showing promise , I really hope the virus can be controlled, better yet just vanish, but we all know the latter is complicated. Frontliners have been working hard to help people, they risk themselves and give up spendi...

I believe we all know college is nothing like the movies. There’s no party every Friday night nor meeting the love of your life. And even though it’s not as tough as university yet, there are still a couple of assignments that’ll have you scratching your head as someone who’s still not used to them. The expectations vs reality of college was clear for me but what I didn’t expect was how the COVID-19 pandemic changed my whole college experience! Allow me to show you the unexpected reality of college life during this stay-at-home period. Let’s see how many of them you can relate to!   Campus Life You couldn’t wait to explore the Taylor’s Lakeside Campus — the library , the facilities , the restaurants… but the lockdown happened and you can only stay at home. No more studying in the library, playing sports in the campus multi-purpose courts, or eating with your friends. Even if there were a few weeks of physical classes when the number of cases were low, social distancing was still ...