The struggle to make myself count

By Shamala Suresh Kee

I couldn’t agree more with Syarifah on the identity thing. Only, she was in the opposite spectrum if compared to my case.

I myself had faced that sh*t. To be totally honest, I am a truly-yours science stream student. Up till Form Six that is. I even accepted an offer to do Applied Biology at our beloved Universiti Sains Malaysia. Now, what made me end up here in Communication, you might ask? Don’t worry, you are not the only human being haunted by that question. *Expletive*. The whole campus wants to know about it. And, didn’t I had a wholy pleasant affair of explaining away the reason in my second year? Probing questions on my decision come uninvited. People tend to size us up by taking our education and wealth generating potential into consideration. The only flaw is this, they do that with prejudice. And very unforgivingly. It seemed to them that I had done a great sin for opting to something other than the Great Science. Alas, I’m settling into my niche. I love Mass Comn.