UP Manila StuDentista: How My University Life Has Been Going

My life as an isko-studentista so far has been a pressure cooker okay i guess. Carvings, drawings, reports, exams here and there. 4 exams again next week! And I'm supposed to study but i ended up here in front of my laptop blogging. I dunno, maybe i'm just too tired to even look at any study material right now or maybe this is just some sort of a temporary escape from the harsh reality that the pressure here really makes you crazy af.  I was culture shocked to be honest 'cause i've never ever imagined that i would experience this kind of pressure in school. You know what i mean, if before i really aim for a grade above 90, right now? just getting a 60 already calls for a celebration (yey you passed haha!) But thank God i haven't failed any exam YET (i'm not looking forward into receiving my first ever kwatro or sinko tho lol) *sigh* I remember how excited i was to go to school weeks before the start of classes after learning that i got accepted. Back then i was already imagining how wonderful my life's going to be in my dream school. Don't get me wrong, apart from the things that i just said, i love love love it here! Getting exposed to students who are pretty much like me, GC's (grade conscious) which adds to the already existing pressure. On top of that, the grading system which is zero based.. So the values of the exam grades are really uhm, motivating(?) he he he he huhuhuh :'( 

(First exam results in Oral Anatomy. So depressing este motivating diba?)

Tho i start to feel like my enthusiasm is about to drain mL by mL as days pass. Learning crazy scary facts about the college's history of having students who stayed for like 9 ("magna"-nine years), 10 ("summa"-sampung taon) or even 12 years?! God! Really unbelievable, but true. (That student topped the boards tho) So that is what keeps me going. In UP, NOTHING is spoon fed. You'll really be pushed to the limit by the kind of professors you didn't even know existed. It's a humbling experience actually. But at the end of it all, it's going to be worth it. As what the college dean Dr. Medina always says, "You're among the top 5% in the whole Philippines. You're the cream of the crop." So we should all better get our asses moving to prove that. I still have lots of reading to do pa haha! 

Thanks for taking the time to read. I'll post again when i can.

Don't forget to wear your smile. :D

-E.R.Q.Y.