SINGAPORE — Despite five futile attempts to enter the polytechnic of his dreams, Aloysius Lim was unfazed. He finally succeeded on his sixth try and was accepted into Nanyang Polytechnic's (NYP) Infocomm and Media Engineering course. Three years on, the 24-year-old has excelled and graduated with a near-perfect grade point average of 3.99 out of 4.
Education Minister Chan Chun Sing presented awards to NYP's top nine graduates, including Lim who received the Tay Eng Soon Award for ITE Upgrader.SINGAPORE — Despite five futile attempts to enter the polytechnic of his dreams, Aloysius Lim was unfazed.
Lim is one of 5,300 graduates from NYP's Class of 2024 and is also one of the polytechnic's top eight graduates. The former Greendale Secondary School student first wanted to apply to NYP in 2017, but did not qualify as he received an E8 in English language at the O-level exams.So Lim, who grew up in a Mandarin-speaking family with his parents and an older sister, went to ITE College East and did a Higher Nitec course in cyber and network security.
Using his ITE results, he applied to NYP four times — once after graduating and thrice more while he was in national service."I tried for so long, but... I still couldn't make it in. But I am someone who does not give up easily, so I know that if I keep trying, one day I will succeed," said Lim, whose father is a food delivery rider and his mother a senior finance executive.
"I wanted to prove to them that although I actually went for a longer path, I can be successful or be even more successful than most of my peers," said Lim, who is headed to Nanyang Technological University to pursue a Bachelor of Computing in Computer Science. "Our definition of success is never about how well we do for ourselves in this generation, but how well we enable the next generation to do even better."Republic Polytechnic also marked its 19th graduation ceremony in 2024, with 4,509 graduates receiving their diplomas over 14 sessions.
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