As I continue to traverse through the education system, it made me realise that competition doesn’t get any easier. From being in a selective-entry science high school, completing my undergraduate degree in Biomedicine, to now doing Dentistry at a post-graduate level – it’s getting harder and harder. I am reminded of what my high-school computer programming teacher in Year 9 said to me upon asking for his advice when I got into this selective science school. He said something along these lines:
