sometimes i feel how ns makes us more mature is in the way it exposes our young innocent males to the working world outside, especially to the nerds out there whose world is just made up of plain formulae and books. politics fly everywhere in the office and suction pads are just personified simply. decisions are made with dumb nobility and inconsistence, won't you just remind me of what we learnt in social studies- about good governance and ultimately good leadership. oh, sorry there i just brought in the academics and they are just not relevant to the working world. you make the decision as to whether the things we study are relevant to modern society today. pure science and mathematics and humanities are not spoken of unless it is used for alluring purposes. it seems to me then that it's the subtle things that we learn and gain out of school that brings us far, not the book knowledge. still, the word personified was learnt during literature in secondary school and boy, am i already in the middle of the real drama unfolding before my very eyes. politics are played, need we even learn about the science of it? maybe i should just further elaborate on my opening statement then. that ns makes us more mature because it actually fuses both the academic and cold hard truth of life.