Saturday, October 15, 2005
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For lack of things to do (and that is an understatement because I don't want to do the things I have to do!), I went through this pile of old exams and test booklets from early college, plus my barkada's journal with the pretext of cleaning and organizing my room. I didn't really finish doing that because I couldn't really help but feel sentimental and nostalgic about what I found. I cannot believe I kept my MathSci and Geom exams. Ugh. They were some of my more difficult subjects. I can't understand the x's and y's anymore! :P I don't understand how I got through those classes, but oh well. It's over, really over. And oh noooo, my Metaphysics exams. Some of my friends cannot believe we had exams with questions like, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Gaah. I was reading my finals--I only got 2.5 there which was a big relief for me--where I wrote all about phantasms, passive and active intellect. I haven't heard those words for the longest time! My answer would have: "The phantasm is then presented to the active intellect which dematerializes it... the active intellect separates the being material and singular as well as being changeable in time and space..." Eep. I can't believe I wrote about an ordinary day applying all Metaphysics concepts under two hours for that final. The more interesting exams/papers I found were from my LL (Lit/English) class. My Fil classes were... hard. I don't speak Tagalog well and writing, talking about Job's and Edipo's trials was not as fun as writing and discussing Shakespeare, CS Lewis, etc. I appreciated my teacher, though, who completely understood my somewhat barok essays, although I did fail a paper once and that teacher wrote me a note asking why, etc. As for English Lit, I would get devastated with a 2.0 paper (1.0 being the highest). I don't know, I guess it was a Lit class and I always thought I would do well. Anyway, the Lit exam I found had me answering Shakespeare's definition of man based on Hamlet and The Tempest... let's just say I surprised myself reading what I wrote. I thought I would cringe and think how naive I sounded, but then I realized I seemed more mature and smarter then than now. How sad, I feel like I'm not as creative and insightful as before even if my world is bigger now, I feel like I haven't grown. Well. Let's see what we can do about that. But onto lighter things, the journal has so many memories! I have the second in the series, covering from second semester of first year, summer and the first sem of second year. It was fun! When I read the entries, I couldn't help but grimace over my impossible crushes over these guys (hahahaha my friends can attest to this! Ewww), giggle over the silliness we wrote about (hanging out in school with *ahem* Chewy and the gang following), muse over all the code names we had for these people, remember the stress (tiring all nighters, Biology dissections, more papers, class on Saturdays from 7a-1p for the Mandarin girls) and the fun (ULTRA days for PE!) and so on. One of my favorite entries/memories was when Tet grabbed the notebook away from our Civ 120 teacher when he saw her writing in it. She actually wrote, "Bastos ba? Inagaw ko yung notebook kay Sir." Haha! We were in the first row in that class (but then, my friends and I sat in the last row during our Ethics class, which prompted our teacher to ask me, "Why do you and your friends always sit in the last row?" -- as if it was so far, the classroom had only three rows!). Those were the days! When I remember college, especially the first three years, it was in a happy daze. Even if some classes were just too difficult, my friends made it so much fun. :) Just seeing their handwriting (and their personality) on the journal made me miss them a whole lot: Ina's big and quick strokes, Trins' featherlight script, Tetty's decisive print, Jo's expressive hand, Anch's trademark teeny handwriting, Loids' neat detail, Pam's friendly scribble. See how I can never finish cleaning my room in a day because I have to stop and reminisce! Next week or on my leave, I still have the latter part of college (also fun, but not in a happy-daze kind of way) to look through. That should take quite a while too, plus I'm sure it's interesting.
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2 Comments:
Awww, this entry got me all nostalgic and scared. If you can't remember why all the Xs and the Ys are x and y, I wouldn't know those things anymore too!! Not that I knew what they were before too. I told you I'm finishing MScM right? I have tons of CAS back subjects. I'm pretty sure I flunked MatSci so I think I'll be needing your notes!!! Eeek, I'll be seeing you soon dear!! Probably around Feb/March. I just need to fix my sched coz it seems like Tedi's going to take his internship here when I'm supposedly there in Manila already. Haaaay.
Yup you told me about finishing MScM, plus Anch mentioned it to me before. Feb/Mar yet? Ooo... I was expecting October already (yes, highly anticipated among the girls! *grin*), but that's okay. Can't wait to see you then!
As for MS... eek. School's so different now! As in!
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