By Isaac Chan (25A01B)
21 February meant a lot to our Y7s — meeting friends after some while apart, catching up, and of course, receiving their long-awaited A-Levels results. In the air was tension, relief, sadness, joy. This video is a glimpse into that day: take a look at how it was like, hear what our Y7s had to say, and what advice our teachers have to give them.
How mathematics and economics have formalised my life lessons
By Koo Ii (21S05A)
Equilibrium can be fleeting. Revisiting RI 3 years after my graduation was another reminder of that: the Popular bookshop had become Casco, the cRIb no longer houses Teddy nor the lockers, and the canteen was devoid of the transparent acrylic safe-distancing screens (COVID-19 batches would understand).
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By Lara Tan (22A01B)
Hi everyone! My name is Lara, and I graduated from RI in 2022. I am a proud Raffles Press and Raffles Debaters alumnus, and I’m currently a sophomore at Harvard College concentrating (majoring) in Music and Government.
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By Wong Sze Han Darren (24S03C) and Low Jing Kai (24S03H)
The shape of this button. The font of that text. The colour of this arrow.
To most, these might seem like insignificant and arbitrary considerations, but not to Charisse Foo, a UI/UX research associate at the National University of Singapore (NUS). To her, user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design is more than shapes and colours on a website; it’s about understanding the audience you’re designing for, and crafting an experience that suits their needs.
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By Raffles Press ’24
Foreword by Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A), Chairperson, Raffles Press ’24
“What do I want to be in the future?” is a question that many of us JC students are asking ourselves. With university looming in the horizon, it’s no wonder that JC has become a time for much-needed soul-searching, where we introspect on where and how we really see ourselves thriving in the future.
At this stage, conventional career paths, like medicine, law and engineering may be the most appealing—they’re clear and well-trodden tracks that provide certainty in a future that so often feels volatile and uncertain. Yet, there may still be a small part of ourselves that yearns to look towards our dreams.
In this special edition, we complicate this train of thought—what if you can turn your dreams into a viable career? What if you can turn your “side quests”—be it your small crochet Instagram account, or time spent volunteering with kids—into your “main quests” instead?
What can you do off the beaten track?
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