The Epic of Muzza Wu

Good whatever-the-time-of-day-it-is-you're-reading-this-post-at, if you've clicked on this post, you're either entering the University of Malaya's medical programme (UMMP-University of Malaya Medical Programme) this September or you're just a curious soul who is wondering what life in medical school at UM is like. Whatever you're reason, I'd like to thank you for giving my blog a read and I hope that I can help you accomplish whatever it is you've come here to do. Briefly, my name is M***** and as of me writing this post, I'm currently a first year medical student at the University of Malaya. I vividly remember the months before entering my degree life when I would scour the internet for blog posts on what life in UM as a medical student would be like to no avail. Most of the posts out there are about Minggu Haluan Siswa, MHS ( which I also made a post on, so feel free to check that out) . Thus, I'd like to share a little bit about how life at ...

Introduction Today's post is going to be about PASUM, my experience through it and how the program is structured (at least how it was during my time). A little bit about me before we begin. My name is Muzza and I was a PASUM (Pusat Asasi Sains Universiti Malaya) student of the year 2017/2018. Initially I had never intended to enrol in PASUM (I actually changed my mind the week before PASUM began) because I had never heard of the program nor really been interested in it. However after considering the prestige of the University of Malaya, I opted to give it a shot for a year. I enrolled in PASUM (taking Life Sciences) in 2017 under JPA's Program Penajaan 9A+ scholarship. A word of warning, if you really want to get into PASUM, study hard. Apparently it's quite competitive and a very popular program. They also don't take too many students in comparison to other public university foundations. And so the journey begins.  Academics So PASUM or sometimes referred...