Hi guys,

I’m sorry for a very late reply. Thank you for all your concerns and suggestions. All of that are very helpful.

Last night, my uncle sent me a message (since he is in Qatar) telling me that someone she knows graduated cumlaude this year. He is telling me that why can’t I be like that person. He’s expecting me to be a cumlaude. I tried to explain that I am doing my best but there are some professors in my university that give such low grades even though you excel in their class. But he’s thinking that I am not doing my best that’s why I am saying that maybe, just maybe, I can’t be a cumlaude when I graduate. I told him that I am still not sure if my general QPI will be acceptable to be a cumlaude. He says that my course is easy enough to get high grades. What’s so easy in accountancy right? It’s not just computations because if it is, then it will be easy. My uncle is also an accountancy graduate and that is, I think, the reason why he also wants me to be an accountant. He wants me to be entitled as CPA. Because if I will be a CPA, I will easily get a good job in a high standard company. But my point is, yes, he graduated from accountancy. But he is not entitled as CPA because he got sick during the board exam. He is not a CPA, but why does he have a good job right now? It’s my point that he can’t understand. Yes, I can get more opportunities when I have a CPA after my name but I can also find a job without that entitlement. I can be happy even if I am not a certified public accountant. But as always, we still end up talking about me, being a cumlaude, being an accountant in the future.

It’s not that I really don’t want to be a CPA, but can’t he give me a break? I am doing my best to achieve his expectations, why can’t he see that? As far as I remember, he doesn’t even say that he’s proud of me since I was young. When I was in elementary, I always join in the math competition, and for me, that’s enough experience counting numbers. Why do I have to balance others’ money for the rest of my life?