letters to a modern-day Job

I got 211 for my PSLE (Primary School Leaving Examination) in Singapore in 1987. This score is considered between the 40th and 50th percentile nationally. I eventually scored 4As for A-levels, then got into an Ivy-League graduating from Chemical Engineering with a Cum Laude.

I fed ChatGPT my educational statistics. I asked it to give me the odds of such happening for a student. This student was also diagnosed with “near erythrodermic atopic dermatitis” (severe eczema) in his teens to adulthood.

The results were < 0.001% when healthy, and <0.00001% with severe eczema.

The conclusion is: a “Once-in-a-Lifetime Anomaly” and “nearly unprecedented.” It goes “beyond normal statistical reasoning.” This kind of success would require “extreme divine intervention.”

I already suspected such odds, because I am the only person I know with average results at 12 that had such 3-sigma academic success later at 24. Furthermore, in all my hundreds of dermatologist visits, finding another patient’s eczema as severe and long-lasting as mine was also rare.

Thanks, ChatGPT, for validating why I am writing this book.

The journey of how I got to graduate Cum Laude in Chemical Engineering at Cornell University from humble beginnings is only one chapter in the book I am writing, tentatively called “Disease, Debilitation, and the Christianity that Changed Everything.” It’s in the process of editing now.

This crazy episode of my life is only one chapter of the book. I assure you that the rest the 30 chapters of my story is more eye-opening. They consist of the fall into the future crazy lows of my life, the struggle to explore Christ in the misery, and the unexpected resurgence of life when no one expected it.

I am writing to encourage those in their personal Abyss, where hope has died, and the world has overlooked. Stay tuned.

I have attached the ChatGPT calculations below.

God bless you all! To Him that can keep you from falling and can do more than we can ask or imagine.