Junior College

In 2011 I was in my sophomore and final year in Junior College. Then, I was 17, and pretty much all I could do -- and must be doing -- is study.

JC life makes you different. It's hard to pinpoint how exactly you change, but yes, you do change. For better or for worse, you still change. People say in JC you just 'mug', but you think studying continuously for a year is easy? No it is not. The mental agility that you need... Not everyone has that.

Each JC and even each individual civics group (CG) is unique and this gives everyone different experiences there. I come from a really small CG of 11 people and hence there is a need for the class to be closely knit, or at least be in harmony. It is really obvious when two people are not getting along, also it is just difficult and inefficient to split 11 people into separate cliques. Thankfully in general the people in my CG are friendly enough and we get along well.

It is only by around the mid year papers did I start thinking about what the college meant to me. Every school day I would stay back in school and sit down at the study benches. I would always face the assembly plaza, since I would be able to see a large portion of the school's architecture. At then, I knew that I will miss that place in the future, and boy am I missing it.

I don't know if you rapidly 'grow up' in JC. Every moment in your life you are growing up, whether physically or mentally. As long as you keep thinking and reflecting, you will mature, even if you are just sitting at a coffee place doing absolutely nothing or even lying on the bed staring at the ceiling. You don't have to go to JC just to grow up.

Apart from just educating you for the 'A' Level papers, what JC does is dig a hole in your memory and bury itself there. It stays firmly rooted within you and you are just no longer the same again.
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