Life After Raffles

Commentary, Life After Raffles, Student Features

Interview Feature: Tommy Koh, 2014 President’s Scholar
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Michelle Zhu (15A01B), Valerie Chee (15S07B)

The President’s Scholarship, awarded to only the most deserving PSC (Public Service Commission) Scholarship recipients, is arguably the single most prestigious scholarship awarded in Singapore.  It is awarded to ‘students who have gone beyond excellence in academic pursuits and co-curricular activities to distinguish themselves,’ and who have ‘strong ethos in public service’. This year, three of our Rafflesians, Eugene Lim Zhi Wei, Lee Zi Xin, and Tommy Koh Kit Shaun have had the honour of being awarded the scholarship. We speak to Tommy Koh, now studying in John Hopkins, about his thoughts.

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Internships, Life After Raffles

Diary of an RI Intern: The Other Side of Changi Airport
Reading Time: 5 minutes

Article and pictures contributed by Chan Ze Ming

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We bring you this week’s Diary of an RI Intern, where we invite ex-Rafflesians to share their interning experiences. In this edition, Chan Ze Ming shares his experiences working as an  intern for the Changi Airport Group.

The author is a second-year Economics undergraduate from the University of Warwick. He graduated from Raffles Institution (RI) in 2009 and received the Changi Airport Group Overseas Undergraduate Scholarship in 2011.

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Internships

Diary of an RI Intern: Writing is No Child’s Play!
Reading Time: 8 minutes

Article and pictures contributed by Jasmine Liu

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Making a comeback after an extended layoff, we bring you this week’s Diary of an RI Intern, where we invite ex-Rafflesians to share their interning experiences. In this edition, Jasmine Liu shares her experience working under local children’s writer Adeline Foo.

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Commentary, Internships, Life After Raffles

Diary of an RI Intern: Writing for The Straits Times
Reading Time: 8 minutes

By Regina Marie Lee (13A01B)

If the name Miranda Yeo sounds familiar, you might have read some of her articles in the Straits Times earlier this year. Before graduating from RI in 2011, Miranda took History, English Language and Linguistics, Literature and Math in the Humanities Programme and was Vice-President of the Boon Lay Youth Club. After graduation, she interned at Singapore Press Holdings’ Straits Times Newsdesk from March to June 2012 and is currently studying at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at NTU.

Miranda, pictured here with Boon Lay Youth Club President (2011) Wu Wai Choong Teacher-In-Charge Mr Chan Ter Yue

As some of our Year 5s head out to internships this holiday, Raffles Press talks to Miranda about her experiences. We find out whether her initial interest in journalism persisted after a challenging yet enriching internship, where she had a Hougang resident set his dogs on her while requesting for an interview! She recounts how the eight times a story she wrote didn’t eventually make the paper were “veritable stab(s) to the heart”, and how her initial ideas about “boring old Singapore” were disputed as she met interesting and diverse strangers on the job.

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