Monday, June 09, 2003
THE INDUSTRIOUS NEAR
Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) - Year 2 - Starting Week #01
NOTE: a weekly entry that is posted before moving into the dorm inside La Salle. includes thoughts and ideas at the start of the week.
ONE year ago I stood right here reflecting and thinking about the days ahead of me. A whole new school. A whole new atmosphere. A whole new lifestyle. One year ago, my thoughts were focused on the excitement and challenges I would be facing in my College Years. One year ago, I felt like I was taking a leap from one platform to another.
That was, again, 365 days ago. The Independent Near. Dormitory life and Campus life were my so-called realms or "areas of social living" back then. The University was one big place and there were thousands of students roaming around. I was one of them.
A year had gone by already. One whole year that had gone by so fast, I could still feel the heat from the pictures I took as they developed from the Photo shop. I thought, back then, that entering College I was this typical boy. And I hoped, back then, leaving College I would be this busy and ambitious young man entering the amusement park and circus otherwise known as the media.
To say, 1/4 of the way has already gone by, I am not the person I was one year ago. No. The shell around me collapsed almost instantaneously. The ambience and the experience, yes, that must've been it. Over a year ago, in my High School days, I had a problem. I hated going to malls, so many strangers. My head was always down. I always looked at the ground. At my shoes. And at my only friends. One computer screen and an album filled with pictures.
It isn't like that anymore. It's nothing like that. I think I've grown as a person this past year. Although my weight probably went up by three or four pounds, I'm talking about my interpersonal self. The way I interacted. The way I opened up. Like China joining the World Trade Organization. The gates in my life swinged open and in came all that I was deprived of in High School and in my past years.
There is so much variety when it comes to the past year. Right now, hundreds of students flood the streets of La Salle Dasmari?as during a dismissal interval. My head isn't facing the ground. My posture isn't shy. My chin is up. My posture is confident. Not over-confident. But confident in such a way that I know where I want to go and know exactly how to get there. I have never been this determined.
One year has gone by. And it makes me want to cry because that one year contained so many new experiences. And from what they say, "it gets better every year in College.".
I live on this established social life I've put up. Before, I hated strangers. Now, I love to meet people. I've opened up, joined organizations, cooperated with friends in my block, and experienced the joys, comedies, actions, and dramas of dorm life.
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Now comes the Sophomore Slump. I don't like to use the word "sophomore" for College year levels, but the thought is right there in that phrase. Will this year live up to last year? I'm no longer a Freshmen and that sense of innocence when roaming the campus has gone down the drain already.
There are now thousands of students younger than me, going down that acacia-lined Lake Avenue. The feeling must be different with their presence. Not that I am in any way against them, but in such a way that I now need to set my own examples to the new generation. What is it? A few points must be added to my own level of maturity.
The Industrious Near. I've decided to keep the title in-tact with the predecessor. Industrious? Hard-working, willful, and challenging are some words to describe what I mean here. If I don't get a good boost, the weight of my last half as a undergraduate College student could be heavy.
I look at 2nd Year as the launching ground. If in 1st Year I observed, I applied, and I learned from the others who were older than me. I think in 2nd Year I must apply what I've learned and observed.
Unlike a year ago, it was the opening stretch of College. I had focused mainly on two social realms. The classroom (JOU1-1) and the dormitory. And I had applied for organizations: VPAPU (1st sem, resigned from probationary membership afterwards), AB COMM CHANNEL (member), and HERALDO FILIPINO (writer for Feature section).
This year it's a four pillar monument I feel like I'd like to construct. ACADEMICS (JOU2-1), HERALDO (University Paper, Feature staff), CHANNEL (AB Comm Channel, segment producer), and DORMITORY (pioneer occupant, first batch).
Without anymore math and science subjects, and if I continue to improve my academics, my GPA should increase. This year, all initial efforts is directed towards ACADEMICS.
With VPAPU off my priorities, I'm hoping to improve efforts in working for the students as a campus journalist. Am I really a journalist? Or should I lean more on broadcasting? My course is Broadcast Journalism and I need to pick which one I am more comfortable in. How? HERALDO.
With the faith of a few good friends of mine in the AB Comm Channel, I seem to have renewed interests into practicing the production of shows. CHANNEL is my key to working next to upperclass AB Comm students and learning from them and from myself when I work with them.
DORMITORY. One big challenge this year. Three buildings. Only a few of us pioneers from the first batch remain. More people. More rooms. More challenges. But that's what makes it more interesting. More people to get to know.
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Those are the four pillars for my 2nd Year College. Also known as the social realms I'm interested to get involved in and to evolve in.
Here's to one great year. Hopefully by the end of the year, I can appreciate all that I've done and totally have that feeling of being an upperclassman.
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