Faith and Isaac compare their wildly different university paths — NUS Medicine vs Cambridge Law — and unpack culture shock, missed local uni experiences, and whether they'd choose the same road again.

We've always wondered what it would've been like to live each other's uni lives — so in this episode, we finally sat down and asked. Faith went through NUS Medicine, the well-trodden local path with all its budget backup plans and prelim disasters; Isaac took the scenic route through Cambridge Law before circling back to medicine at Duke-NUS. Turns out we both missed out on some very different things.

We get into the culture shock of formal dinners and £6 supermarket wine, the very real FOMO of never once going night cycling with university buddies, and the moments — a Moroccan desert night, a freezing bike ride blasting Jay Chou — that somehow still live rent-free in our heads years later. We also talk about how differently "success" got defined for each of us, and whether all those what-ifs actually matter in the end.

It's a pretty honest look at the roads we didn't take, the ones we did, and why — most days, anyway — we've made peace with where we landed. If you've ever wondered whether the other path would've been better, this one's for you.

Keywords: NUS Medicine, Cambridge Law, Singapore university life, medical school Singapore, studying abroad Singapore, university culture shock, career regrets, Singapore meritocracy, doctor career path, law school experience