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An Event That Changes My Life Essay

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The topic I choose is “what event that changes my life” as this is the more relevant to my reason in pursuing education. I been being through the high and low of education from EM3, normal tech, ITE and polytechnic, during each phases of education I experience event that changes my mindset and life.
The first event occur right after primary 4 streaming exam, I fail the exam and placed to EM3. So for this my teacher punishes me, she told me to bring a cane from home and during morning assembly; I have to stand in front of the school with the cane visible. I felt deeply hurt, not entirely because of the punishment but how my teacher had given up on me and uses me as a tool to warn the others. This led me to reflect on how I think of education, under my parent influence I used to think education is not important as they …show more content…

His way of teaching is interesting and fun. So the event happens during a project submission of his, I am very worries that my project is not able or work or crashes when I hand over it to him. At that time, he told me this “I know how well you worked on this, by all means I will make the program run able for grading” with a confident look. Because of this I am inspire by his words and action, although his words may be simple or he may say it because it is his job but he make me to want to became a programmer who is confident in his own skill and able to let others place their trust on you.
The last event happen during my polytechnic internship, I was assigned to Singapore airline purchasing department. M y job scope was to create application that will improve the work flow of department and assist the office worker to lighten their workload. I manage to complete what I am tasked and I get to see my application put to practical use. It give me a sense of satisfaction when I see that my application is being use and able to help the user with

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