You Really Need To Choose!

Well, every student needs to sleep. It is really implied that a person needs to sleep at least 8 hours a day so his body could still manage to do works for the next day, but what if certain circumstances blocks this daily habit? Would you rather sacrifice some good and awesome sleep with some awful and risky long study night?

I guess my answer will be a very big fat no. Well, after that habit, I guess I need to retake some of my subjects for the next semester.

It is really difficult for people like me to sacrifice a very nice sleep. I just do not know why some people can live a week without those very essential tool for life. For me, I would rather have a big fat 5.0 than to have some big eye bags.

No matter what they say, before, I will choose sleep than study. I think nothing will lose if I choose that kind of habit, but when my grades were given, well, change habit for me in the next semester.

As a famous quote in UP goes, “Ang tulog nababawi, ang singko hindi.” God bless for me in the next semester!

Well, Money Not Well Spent

It is really tough to live independently. All the struggles and hardships will be given to you. No matter what the people say, having your life in your bare hands is not really a good one… for now.

I thought that going to college will give me some sort of freedom. I guess I could have some partying all night long while having some fun. As a probinsyano, I have my expectations. Oh, I could go this place! This thing! I want to try this stuff. In the end, I end up sobbing. I spent all my money.

My friend Winna is my savior. She lent me some of her baon to help suffice my lost weekly allowance. It is really uplifting to know that I have a friend like her that will save in times of emergency. Nonetheless, I do not know what I will do without her.

All my life I have been suffering from this kind of disease. I do not know what I will do if I do not have this kind of friends. I guess, I’ll live my miserably.

Notes, A Student's Savior!

As a student, our life is basically surrounded by notebooks, papers, and pens. Without this stuff, our student life will never ever be complete. We do have our long exams, periodical tests, short quizzes, but where are we going to have our refines for those examinations? Well, you got it right. From our notes.

Being a student, we are really bounded by our own beliefs in what methods we are going to use for our our examinations. Some may say that they have very good listening skills; thus, they do not need any of those notes for their struggles.

What if they are like me? I am not that kind of person.

I really need to have some notes, but because I am that kind of person that sleeps rather than listen to the teacher while in class, well, that is kind of a problem.

Notes are the basic foundation of student life, as if it is like an atom in a matter. Without this notes, your life will be ruined. A person will not know where he or she will be in the next 24 hours (it may be because he will get a very low grade in Environmental Science, so he will not go home after the test). Notes will always be as important as it is right now. Without those, a person should expect that his life will be a living hell.

Well, this semester is having an end already. I guess my notebooks also have their breaks.

A Monster named Procrastination

Oh well. College life will never be known without its difficult projects, terrifying long exams, and lastly, terrible deadlines. I guess all students fear all this stuff, but I? Well, it doesn’t really matter… for now.

I thought life would be easy during college (that’s my resolution before going to this tertiary level. I will never ever be as studious as before). I just sleep during classes, do my home works and requirements when it is almost on the deadline, and stuff like that. What matters for me is just to have fun. I do not care what my grades will be. All I want is to show the world that life will not be ruined because you just have low grades (duh, what really matters most is what you have learned during those times).

Until I got my score in Natural Science I. Yes, I had a passing score, but it is really discouraging to know that a student which is leading in the class when he was in his high school years now has a score of just 69.73%. What a shame. I just cried and ask the Lord to erase all my wrongdoings this semester, but nothing happened. All I did was to regret all this things.

I grasped the reality of life. As students, we will always be followed by these monster called grades. I guess it is time for me to study for my next semester.

Numbers Are Just Numbers

Life. It is so complicated. No one really knows what will happen in the next few moments, or even just in the next millisecond. Everything could happen. There are an endless number of possibilities that could happen in this time. It may come a time that earthquakes can be predicted, but not on what will happen on someone’s life. No one can, and no one will.

Grades. It comes in many varieties. It may be in letters, words, of even numbers. It will show how much you have scored on a test. It will testify that you have learned something in your classes. It will give you respect. It will make you famous sometimes. It will you give you hardships. It will give you tears.

What if you will combine these two variables? Can life control grades? Can grades manipulate life?

All my life I have been brain washed that grades will give you good jobs. Grades will make you earn more. Grades will you have good fortune. I should study and acquire good grades. It will be an endless cycle. This mindset changed when I entered UP.

I thought I was the best among all students in our class. I was making so many Pabida during classes. I raise my hands frequently. I ask questions. I even did some interruptions during our discussions just to let them see that I am superior. I am MJ. I am their fears.

Something bad happened during my Essay writing class. I wrote the worst article. My professor told me my flaws and my wrongdoings. He even said that I was looking so pitiful during those times. After that incident, I was in the state of shock. I cried during that night.

I realized that life does not really go hand in hand with grades. What really matters in life is what you have learned in school and how you will apply them in life. Grades are just numbers and it will never ever be equal on what life could give you.