The Top 5ive Lectureboy Screw-ups

Being lectureboys, our road trip on this highway known as life is very often marred by potholes. Some of them were just bad luck but a huge chunk of these very memorable moments are very much of our own making. Here, I present to you the top 5ive lectureboy screw-ups.

Coming in at number five, getting an F for the Gastrointestinal summative exam.

Exam failing is something we always huddle around talking about over a warm glass of teh-o-ais, but beneath the farce of joke making and "you're-so-gonna-pass-and-i'm-gonna-fail" conversations deep down in all of us we want to top the next lectureboy in exam results so we can smugly feel good inside. It's called the competitive drive but truth be told, we're all damn kiasu.

LB-Ming will forever be remembered as reaching a peak so unattainable and a bottom so unreachable that from that point onwards, no matter how well he did, his friend would look at him and say, "AT least I didn't get an F in the GI exam." to which he cannot reply and then will hang himself under the ceiling fan.

+WeiJiN comes in at number four when he failed an exam he didn't even sit for. As avid readers of lectureboys, I'm sure most of you would have heard of the now familiar story which depicts how USMLE (the US' exam board for medical undergraduates) owned him.
Granted, and to be fair to the people that fail it, it isn't a very easy paper. However, he wasn't even ACCEPTED to sit for the exam. A privilege which is granted to EVERYONE else and ANYONE who would apply for it. Our hearts go out to him. Being rejected is his greatest fear so it's really sad how things turned out for him.

LB-Keat's departure from med school comes in at number 3. However, because personally for him he's currently in a much better position than he was, this wouldn't be categorically a screw-up. That is if you believe in long runs and bright sides and all that jazz. But due to the nature of how he got there, which is to record-breakingly not study at all for the finals of semester 3 then yes, this is every bit deserved so don't argue.
And I say record-breaking because trust me, no one else in the history of the university would ever so fearlessly do it the way he did. He's the one person I've met where his laziness is > his fear. Cheers.

Our bit of history so far sounds like we've been mostly shaped by our academic achievements, or lack thereof. Which is awful. No one should ever be gauged wholly by their ability to pick the correct answer in MCQs. Which is why I want to prove to you that we do screw up in a lot of other non-academic situations.

LB-Nien comes in at number two when he missed his flight to Queensland. I don't know what the reason is or whether it was anyone else's fault. Nor do I intend to find out so that I can unjudgementally tell a story. All you should know is that Mr.Nien, whom was supposed to leave Msia on a date that was set since he graduated a year ago, didn't.
And because I don't know exactly why, let me just embellish it to say that he forgot to apply for his visa.
His mum, whom my heart breaks for when I send Han Nien late home every night, marked it down as the most stressful event in her life when everything was ready to be flown to Australia. Except her son's travel status.
So given the extra few days to loiter around in Malaysia, instead of rushing his application, he decided to go to the cyber cafe and play computer games.

Well, I suppose he's in Australia now so it's all good. Cheers.