Tuesday, June 11, 2002
THE GPUTZ ENTERS COLLEGE
The First Report on my new Lifestyle
EDIT: This is the Premiere "The Damage Report" post. (TDR 01a)
There's absolutely no way on how I can actually start this off. There's just too much and it's still unorganized right now. So forgive me for the lack of a proper sentence at the start. Below are just mini categories for things and aspects of my newly founded college life.
THE DORM
It's still empty. Only a few things in the corners. Lance's Corner and my corner. Our third roomie, "Ramoncito Gutierrez" is no where to be found. He could be roaming the campus somewhere but he's not in the dorm yet. At least not in the first two days.
The size of the room is just average. The location of it is next to this lagoon, the whole corridor outside is covered with trees, and at night insects are attracted to the light.
There are privacy issues to note so far. Lance doesn't give a damn, "hang a rug" instead. When if the three of us (the missing 3rd roomie included) can pitch in and pay one dollar... we can get a whole new set of blinds that would slide perfectly into the holders
the former occupants left behind.
On the back window, it's pretty large and it's back to back with a room and back window of another dormitory. Except that dormitory belongs to the girls. We hear a radio, and I heard "PANGAKO SA YO" from the teledrama series. Must mean they have television as well.
So we're pretty much exposed still. There's no shower curtain, Lance doesn't care too. So, the water during our shower splashes throughout the bathroom leaving one small dirt patch become a sticky wet brown thing on the ground. Not a pretty site. It's a f*cking turn off that makes you just want to take a shower back home.
Around the dorm, the third roomie has the worst of all the places in the room. I hate having such a deep conscience that I have to constantly feel sorry for Ramoncito, or whoever will take his place if Ramoncito doesn't move in. The third roomie will get the
middle bed. His closets will be located annoying behind the main doorway of our room. His cupboard above the mini-kitchen has a dirty looking fuse box with some switch... it also takes up some room. His bookshelf happens to be in the middle as well. And his
study is also being displaced.
What did I add to my dorm? The basics, and I should have listened to my High School friend Erika that a form of entertainment is MUST. There was absolutely no form of entertainment in my room. That was a killer. When waiting for Lance (we haven't seen each other since Summer Classes back at Old Atheneum)... I was there in my undershirt and black pants just staring at the white wall... for like 30 minutes.
I added a small oval shaped rug to customize my corner of the room and keep things a little more "at home" and comfy. The floors were painted dark red and waxed, which reminds me of my First Year High School classroom back at Old Atheneum. I added a
hamper and also added weights as one way to keep doing something. My corkboard was up, and a blue tray to hold knick knacks, loose change and coins, scissors, etc.
ON OUR OWN... WELL, SORTA...
This feeling was tremendous. It's not full independence until about a year after we all graduate college. Of course, our parents and legal guardians remain extremely supportive of us financially. And until we can survive on our own hard earned money, there's no such thing as full independence yet.
BUT leaving my house and having a location elsewhere to live, eat, and sleep in was just different. This kind of independence is heavy though, and with it comes responsibility. That damn word- Responsibility. You got to wake yourself up, you are the consequence
of your actions, yata yata yata. It was both exciting and tiresome.
MY NEW FRIENDS and CLASSMATES
Our course code is JOU11 and happens to be the 1st Section of the course AB Broadcast Journalism. In our class of 49, there are only 10 guys. I didn't count, some professor did. Of the guys I met... Jerson (Jesus Jr.) from Amaya, Tanza. Maybe this guy is my version of Erika's friend from her hometown. Then there's Eric from Bacoor, who is entering this field to pursue in his father's footsteps in the media. Then there's Keith "Kit" from some place in Laguna. He kind of looks mean at first impression, but he's a nice guy... fluent in English (a surprise), and funny. Then with Kit would be a personality I haven't met before... his name is William. And then there's Christian Joy, this one is a guy ok. He's from St. Andrews in Paranaque, a boys-only school. I asked him "how it felt to be in
DLSU-D, in a classroom of 49, 10 guys, and 39 girls?", his reply was how strange it felt. He's kind of a loner, and he doesn't hang around with Jerson/Eric/Kit/William/and Myself. But he's also fluent in English and wants to pursue Law... with Journalism as a
foundation for it. His batchmates went to MAPUA and to the College of Engineering at DLSU-D.
There are other guys in the classroom. Three or four I think. But it appears those guys are the ones that either have friends in a neighboring section OR prefers to hang out mostly with girls only. But hey, it's just been two damn days so things can still change fast. I just hope not rapidly. All the guys I've met so far are down to earth cool and funny.
Now on to the girls. And no, not all 39 of them. With 39 girls and 10 boys in a classroom, the names of the guys will be easier to remember I think. So anyways, the first person I ever met and engaged in a conversation in AB Broadcast Journalism is a title belonged to a girl named Jennifer... nickname, "Upper" (really, it's spelt that way). About everyone thinks the name is cute, I do too... hey, it's unique. She's from Paranaque and she's dorming on campus as well... but in the new ladies dormitory with 5 people per room. Our meeting was held steady though as we both focused on meeting other friends. We can relate to each other in ways like "needing someone to walk with to class, cause i don't want to walk alone." ... "i want dinner... in the square canteen... but there's no one to eat with". She's extremely nice.
Then there's Joanna. Jerson and Eric join Joanna and I join them too. She's had a tough time already, I mean... she's nice and simple, funny... and her uniforms haven't been made yet, so she has to walk around campus in civilian thus sticking out in the waves of uniformed students. We've gone on two or three trips to the Linen Department with her already, tough luck over and over again. Hopefully she has a uniform on Thursday.
Then there's May-Ann. She is definantly an instant personality in our class. I don't want to compare my new friends and classmates to the old, but she's like Abigail from my First Year College except she cuts with the questions Abigail would usually ask and replaces that with laughter. Her posture is like Nina Williams in Tekken, and she's the bratty yet funniest of all the girls. She jokes with the professors, her voice has a deep tone to it but is loud and very clear. She's the one who yelled out "GEORGE!!!" to point a reserved seat they made for me (that's where I met Eric) during the Orientation for the NSTP in the upper auditorium. She yelled "SPOKEN DOLL-HER! AND I'M SPOKEN PAY-SO!" as well, attracting the attention of everyone within the vicinity of seven rows to look up and down, left and right, to see this "spoken dollar" boy. (it's a long story, but it's how i kinda became known by after some screwed up introduction i made during the first thirty minutes of my first college class session).
There are other girls. There's Leah, who reminds me of Leslie from way way way back... ah hold on. There's just so many of them... well you'll eventually hear from me about them in the days to come.
There's nothing negative to say about anyone. Everything has been all positive. Positive energy is being put out by everyone. There's nothing to conclude yet, but all I can say to wrap this part up is that each and every person I've met has an individual trait I've never encountered before. Outside the circle of friends I had in Old Atheneum, it kind of tosses the personalities of other old classmates into Black and White for a while. But to think, there's only one of everyone out there. No one will ever be exactly the same. And everywhere you turn and look at DLSU-D, there's always somewhat a new face in front of you, passing by. Be it an upperclassman heading for the Marketing Department or a lost Freshmen searching for her dorm mate while holding her cellphone... there's something new everywhere.
I am glad to have met these people. Meeting them helps me move on from the pain of leaving my friends of the past behind. No one is being replaced if that's what my friends and pals of the past would think. The friends I meet now will never replace them, old Atheneum was like taking part in an eight-season "Dawson's Creek" kind of show with all the drama, suspense, comedy, action, etc.
UP NEXT
I return to my dorm on Wednesday night because my class on Thursday is at 7am. I'm trying to get myself into other extracurricular activities... mainly the VPAPU. But the VPAPU won't pick me because I messed up the initial interview with backfired questions. I'm still going to try for the VPAPU because if I just quit now "I'll never know.". Plus when I fail this one, I'll learn from it and prepare myself for applying in my 2nd year college. I am interested in the TAEKWONDO, HERALDO FILIPINO (i won't have a chance here, i can't speak and write tagalog, but i am interested), and even the MOUNTAINEERING group... but iono where they're at and if they accept freshmen.
On Friday I have my 2nd step to applying for the VPAPU which is a hands-on exam or whatever.
The First Report on my new Lifestyle
EDIT: This is the Premiere "The Damage Report" post. (TDR 01a)
There's absolutely no way on how I can actually start this off. There's just too much and it's still unorganized right now. So forgive me for the lack of a proper sentence at the start. Below are just mini categories for things and aspects of my newly founded college life.
THE DORM
It's still empty. Only a few things in the corners. Lance's Corner and my corner. Our third roomie, "Ramoncito Gutierrez" is no where to be found. He could be roaming the campus somewhere but he's not in the dorm yet. At least not in the first two days.
The size of the room is just average. The location of it is next to this lagoon, the whole corridor outside is covered with trees, and at night insects are attracted to the light.
There are privacy issues to note so far. Lance doesn't give a damn, "hang a rug" instead. When if the three of us (the missing 3rd roomie included) can pitch in and pay one dollar... we can get a whole new set of blinds that would slide perfectly into the holders
the former occupants left behind.
On the back window, it's pretty large and it's back to back with a room and back window of another dormitory. Except that dormitory belongs to the girls. We hear a radio, and I heard "PANGAKO SA YO" from the teledrama series. Must mean they have television as well.
So we're pretty much exposed still. There's no shower curtain, Lance doesn't care too. So, the water during our shower splashes throughout the bathroom leaving one small dirt patch become a sticky wet brown thing on the ground. Not a pretty site. It's a f*cking turn off that makes you just want to take a shower back home.
Around the dorm, the third roomie has the worst of all the places in the room. I hate having such a deep conscience that I have to constantly feel sorry for Ramoncito, or whoever will take his place if Ramoncito doesn't move in. The third roomie will get the
middle bed. His closets will be located annoying behind the main doorway of our room. His cupboard above the mini-kitchen has a dirty looking fuse box with some switch... it also takes up some room. His bookshelf happens to be in the middle as well. And his
study is also being displaced.
What did I add to my dorm? The basics, and I should have listened to my High School friend Erika that a form of entertainment is MUST. There was absolutely no form of entertainment in my room. That was a killer. When waiting for Lance (we haven't seen each other since Summer Classes back at Old Atheneum)... I was there in my undershirt and black pants just staring at the white wall... for like 30 minutes.
I added a small oval shaped rug to customize my corner of the room and keep things a little more "at home" and comfy. The floors were painted dark red and waxed, which reminds me of my First Year High School classroom back at Old Atheneum. I added a
hamper and also added weights as one way to keep doing something. My corkboard was up, and a blue tray to hold knick knacks, loose change and coins, scissors, etc.
ON OUR OWN... WELL, SORTA...
This feeling was tremendous. It's not full independence until about a year after we all graduate college. Of course, our parents and legal guardians remain extremely supportive of us financially. And until we can survive on our own hard earned money, there's no such thing as full independence yet.
BUT leaving my house and having a location elsewhere to live, eat, and sleep in was just different. This kind of independence is heavy though, and with it comes responsibility. That damn word- Responsibility. You got to wake yourself up, you are the consequence
of your actions, yata yata yata. It was both exciting and tiresome.
MY NEW FRIENDS and CLASSMATES
Our course code is JOU11 and happens to be the 1st Section of the course AB Broadcast Journalism. In our class of 49, there are only 10 guys. I didn't count, some professor did. Of the guys I met... Jerson (Jesus Jr.) from Amaya, Tanza. Maybe this guy is my version of Erika's friend from her hometown. Then there's Eric from Bacoor, who is entering this field to pursue in his father's footsteps in the media. Then there's Keith "Kit" from some place in Laguna. He kind of looks mean at first impression, but he's a nice guy... fluent in English (a surprise), and funny. Then with Kit would be a personality I haven't met before... his name is William. And then there's Christian Joy, this one is a guy ok. He's from St. Andrews in Paranaque, a boys-only school. I asked him "how it felt to be in
DLSU-D, in a classroom of 49, 10 guys, and 39 girls?", his reply was how strange it felt. He's kind of a loner, and he doesn't hang around with Jerson/Eric/Kit/William/and Myself. But he's also fluent in English and wants to pursue Law... with Journalism as a
foundation for it. His batchmates went to MAPUA and to the College of Engineering at DLSU-D.
There are other guys in the classroom. Three or four I think. But it appears those guys are the ones that either have friends in a neighboring section OR prefers to hang out mostly with girls only. But hey, it's just been two damn days so things can still change fast. I just hope not rapidly. All the guys I've met so far are down to earth cool and funny.
Now on to the girls. And no, not all 39 of them. With 39 girls and 10 boys in a classroom, the names of the guys will be easier to remember I think. So anyways, the first person I ever met and engaged in a conversation in AB Broadcast Journalism is a title belonged to a girl named Jennifer... nickname, "Upper" (really, it's spelt that way). About everyone thinks the name is cute, I do too... hey, it's unique. She's from Paranaque and she's dorming on campus as well... but in the new ladies dormitory with 5 people per room. Our meeting was held steady though as we both focused on meeting other friends. We can relate to each other in ways like "needing someone to walk with to class, cause i don't want to walk alone." ... "i want dinner... in the square canteen... but there's no one to eat with". She's extremely nice.
Then there's Joanna. Jerson and Eric join Joanna and I join them too. She's had a tough time already, I mean... she's nice and simple, funny... and her uniforms haven't been made yet, so she has to walk around campus in civilian thus sticking out in the waves of uniformed students. We've gone on two or three trips to the Linen Department with her already, tough luck over and over again. Hopefully she has a uniform on Thursday.
Then there's May-Ann. She is definantly an instant personality in our class. I don't want to compare my new friends and classmates to the old, but she's like Abigail from my First Year College except she cuts with the questions Abigail would usually ask and replaces that with laughter. Her posture is like Nina Williams in Tekken, and she's the bratty yet funniest of all the girls. She jokes with the professors, her voice has a deep tone to it but is loud and very clear. She's the one who yelled out "GEORGE!!!" to point a reserved seat they made for me (that's where I met Eric) during the Orientation for the NSTP in the upper auditorium. She yelled "SPOKEN DOLL-HER! AND I'M SPOKEN PAY-SO!" as well, attracting the attention of everyone within the vicinity of seven rows to look up and down, left and right, to see this "spoken dollar" boy. (it's a long story, but it's how i kinda became known by after some screwed up introduction i made during the first thirty minutes of my first college class session).
There are other girls. There's Leah, who reminds me of Leslie from way way way back... ah hold on. There's just so many of them... well you'll eventually hear from me about them in the days to come.
There's nothing negative to say about anyone. Everything has been all positive. Positive energy is being put out by everyone. There's nothing to conclude yet, but all I can say to wrap this part up is that each and every person I've met has an individual trait I've never encountered before. Outside the circle of friends I had in Old Atheneum, it kind of tosses the personalities of other old classmates into Black and White for a while. But to think, there's only one of everyone out there. No one will ever be exactly the same. And everywhere you turn and look at DLSU-D, there's always somewhat a new face in front of you, passing by. Be it an upperclassman heading for the Marketing Department or a lost Freshmen searching for her dorm mate while holding her cellphone... there's something new everywhere.
I am glad to have met these people. Meeting them helps me move on from the pain of leaving my friends of the past behind. No one is being replaced if that's what my friends and pals of the past would think. The friends I meet now will never replace them, old Atheneum was like taking part in an eight-season "Dawson's Creek" kind of show with all the drama, suspense, comedy, action, etc.
UP NEXT
I return to my dorm on Wednesday night because my class on Thursday is at 7am. I'm trying to get myself into other extracurricular activities... mainly the VPAPU. But the VPAPU won't pick me because I messed up the initial interview with backfired questions. I'm still going to try for the VPAPU because if I just quit now "I'll never know.". Plus when I fail this one, I'll learn from it and prepare myself for applying in my 2nd year college. I am interested in the TAEKWONDO, HERALDO FILIPINO (i won't have a chance here, i can't speak and write tagalog, but i am interested), and even the MOUNTAINEERING group... but iono where they're at and if they accept freshmen.
On Friday I have my 2nd step to applying for the VPAPU which is a hands-on exam or whatever.
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