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Saturday, March 21, 2009

End of My 16 Years in School Life?

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I know it’s been a long long while and I make no excuses for not writing more often. But work and studies have been rather hectic. And when I'm online, a lot of things I put in small chunks on my plurk. Now, I’m going to blog my school life because I'm done with it, finally!

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My school life is a very tiring life and sometimes, a boring life that always depresses me. Every day was so occupied that I had learnt a lot and felt pleased. Every day life is wake up and brunch, classes and homework, worry about future and sleep. No hope or dream! Dilemmas like whether I should do more activities every weekend and end up moaning about not getting proper rest or take more rests and still feeling lethargic. All those things will hopefully come to an end.


My primary school life can be summarized in a Table below:


Levels Schools Years
Elementary Iligan City Central School 6
Highschool Iligan City National High School 4
Colleges MSU-IIT (Electronics Eng'ng Technology) 3
  CIT (EcE) 3


My high school life was the best part of my school life, I graduated Salutatorian among the 1,000+ students in our batch and was the Best in Math awardee (Yay! I do really like dealing with numbers.) and the President of the so-called elite section of our batch. Although, I was an honor student in my 3 year-technical course in College, the awards way back in my high school days gave me more recognitions like being the Math Olympics Champ in my hometown besting more than 10 public and private schools. I got two government scholarships (Mayor's Grantee and the DOST). All of these is because of my faithfulness to worship with Him. So much with that, I admit I'm bragging myself too much at that time in which I learnt my lesson after (You must read the next paragraph to know why).

I was reaping my benefits in my college in life in MSU-IIT, enjoyed heavily all the graces from my high school. Yeah! too much not thinking of exams and my future. All were enjoyment and for fun! I got addicted in chatting at first and then in an online game. Insecurities come when most of my grades registered very low. I took my first removal exam in Physics. I learnt how to cheat. Got several 3.0 marks in major subjects. I'm very down at that time and full of discouragements. My legacy was destroyed and so my pride. Good thing, I still passed and graduate with a GPA of 1.7067 - With Honor (equivalent to Cum Laude for BS Degree). Still thankful to Him.

My laziness continues in my college life in CIT and even worst! Cutting classes, not doing my assignments, very timid, hopeless and always lack of determination to pass. Although several factors may be considered, the problem is in me. It drives me nuts when an exam is taking place because I did not study very well. More 3.0 remarks and failure to submit some home projects! Some of my high school batch mates already have their own work, degree holders and were licensed professionals already. Thinking I was left behind more pressure I felt. It was like a big and bad transformation to me (What is happening to me?! You might asked that.)

I simply lack of balance because I'm learning how to be more social than being a loner. You want to know how loner I am when I was in high school? Probably not.

Good grades are important for college success. However, there is a lot more than just academics when it comes to doing well in college. Although we should study hard enough to get good grades, that shouldn’t be our only focus on campus. Right?

In fact, being a total bookworm is not recommended, experts say we will not develop the appropriate social skills for a successful career if we are constantly isolated. We need a good balance of studying, health and social life in order to have total college success.

So Be Balance.

"End of my 16 years in school life but learning will never ever stops!"



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