I'm so cranky whenever I don't get enough sleep. I found myself waking up dazed and irritated a while ago from an afternoon nap, with much of my mind cursing my late sleeping habits and my new load of homework for the weekend. My head was still in a hangover from a morbid dream concerning moving corpses and from the math homework I was trying to finish before I fell asleep this afternoon, and anything that felt stupid enough to rant about just bothered me-- including the stupid way the remaining bits of tissue hung in our bathroom and the stupid way my comforter lay beneath my head before I tossed it irritably on to the other bed because it was just stupid.
But then the funny thing about it is that everything suddenly brightened up when my grogginess finally faded off. Just minutes later, random thoughts on how much I was loving college and my math homework (for now anyway. neerd hehe) and the size of our new computer mouse (it lights up when you touch it! and its the size of a 1/8 sheet of paper!! ang kyut) and the strawberry crinkles I ate a while ago gradually began taking over. Heheh. I guess I'm just weird like that. Anyway...
COLLEGE
My first week of college has been okay so far. Im still getting used to the random schedules and the school buildings and having to look at my dilapidated map from time to time (sorry na). I've made friends already but it's weird that I haven't been getting the chance to spend time with much of my psych blockmates as often as I expected. Parang anlabo nga ng concept ng course blockmates eh... wala pa kaming class na lahat magkasama (except INTAC). Oh well. My English block's also fine... I have a feeling I just might get closer to the latter overtime. Anyway we'll see.
I'm loving my schedule because it's generally convenient. All my subjects start no earlier than 9am so I get the luxury of a break before school begins (and sleeping time!). And I have dismissals like 12:00nn and 2:30pm so I have more sleeping time in the afternoon! Yey! The only thing I don't like about my sched is the fact that we have a 4-hour lab on Tuesdays, but I like the class anyway so it's ok.
Likewise, my subjects seem to be okay... and as of the moment, I really like our Botany and English teachers. They're so motherly and fatherly and odd and nice. For now anyway. bwahaha
Our English teacher's actually supposed to be one of the most infamous terror teachers in school or something but I really like him as our prof. He's probably already in his late thirties and yet he makes it a point to treat us as equals all the time. And he definitely knows what he's teaching us-- he shared a lot of his thoughts on ADMU's English system and other random things on our first 2 meetings and it was hard not to get ourselves absorbed in what he had to say. I don't know if this is going to change in the next few weeks but I think I'm going to enjoy his class somehow. I think. I HOPE I will anyway. =)
Our ENG Prof: (on working as compared to studying) Your boobs will begin to sag. And I'm talking to the guys.
LIT 13's another story though. Egh. I'll leave it at that.
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Oh and I look dead in my ID picture! My ID pics just never seem to turn out decent. Oh well.
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and back to HIGHSCHOOL
Yesterday, I got another glimpse of what we left behind in highschool as my friends and I paid a brief visit to MC to 1) meet Jess on her 18th bday, 2) give Helen her long-awaited pistachio nuts (hehe), and 3) reminisce and feel old. :) Stepping into the old campus we practically lived in for a good part of our teens felt really weird, like all the anxiety and perks of being a highschool student started seeping into us again without warning. The undergrads we used to attend school with now looked older somehow... and the campus drew us with that inevitably strong tinge of familiarity you can only attain by spending a good part of your life within it.
When we reached our old classrooms, I was surprised at how everything seemed so planned and organized now, at how the tables and lockers came in straight lines as though to remind the students that they already had much planned out for them. This was one of the things I probably took for granted in highschool-- the fact that we had 4 good years to enjoy an atmosphere that didn't require the same amount of independence college now gives us. I seriously didn't realize this until I saw the classrooms again-- where all the classes take place on a fixed schedule with the same people. Although I'm enjoying the newfound freedom ADMU is giving me with regards to my sched, I think I'm also going to miss sitting in a single classroom with classmates I'll be bonding with 5 days a week, 8 hours a day everyday. It just makes you feel more secure and bonded when you go through the same things as a class each day. It gives you a sense of belonging... and it's something I won't experience as much with the different scheds we have now.
Yea I actually miss highschool. :) I hope we get to organize batch reunions ten years from now when we're old and wrinkled.
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okay more college again
"I've never intended to torture my students. I'm just giving you your money's worth." - sir Acuna, our ENG prof
That's actually a good excuse for the 6 essays he assigned us to find and read and discuss on size ones over the weekend. :)
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