vacant_junk_lot (where i dump these thoughts)

Thursday, February 19, 2009
4:04 AM

Surprisingly, i still got the nerve to make a blog entry when i have loads of important articles to write. Well i guess this is what procrastination is all about, though I'm not that proud about it.

obviously, everyone's been raving about "the last two weeks" and since it is most probable that those last two weeks, which will begin this coming monday, will be hectic, I might as well do away with my pre-graduation post. i'll take it as the non-laude graduation address. ;p

When i first entered college, I was a mere happy-go-lucky person who happen to always have lady luck by her side. four years later, I am still that kind of person only that this time I wasn't as lucky as before. it slapped me square in the face that college isn't a roller coaster ride as i've expected, instead it was chaos; a totally different ballgame from highschool. but i realized that that is because college is an immersion into the things that will matter in life.

In college, i morphed into some sort of nocturnal creature. I became accustomed to keyboard-clacking-in-the-wee-hours-of-the-morning. A rough estimate is that i spend almost half of my day in school, a few hours travel time, and the rest of the remaining hours in front of the computer. The computer became my next best buddy (because the friends go first yessss naman). I almost went blind because of computer strained eyes.

I learned that in college you are not who your teachers think you are and that they grade you by their own judgment. i learned that your marks are not somebody else's responsibility but yours. i learned that hard work pays off and that slacking sometimes pays off, but more often don't.

I learned that low grades doesn't make you less of a person and high grades doesn't make you any better. Despite that, we all wanted to take things a notch higher just for self-fulfillment. In college, i tumbled down then rekindled my drive to get up and stabilize my footing.i learned that pretending to be smart doesn't make you smart and that an idle mind will remain that way if you keep it that way.

I learned that it's okay to mess up and to feel like crap; that it's okay to ask for help because we all need hel sometimes. i learned that it's okay to whine and complain to all your friends. i also learned that the things we want most in life we can't always have.

I learned that college life is so much easier and sweeter if you have true friends. and the best thing about college is that I was given four years;four years to make mistakes and learn from them; four years to change and make myself a better person; four years to discover "the essentials" in life; and finally four years to make memories that i will carry on to my grave.

This has been long enough but there's still so much more to say. Let's just put it that four years in college cannot be encapsulated into eight paragraphs or so. This year I am going to march as an average student and i can't say that my college life was so much better or different than yours because just like everyone else we all just wanted to get through these four long years unscathed.

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it's 1 a.m. and i wasn't able to accomplish anything worthy. worse, is that i have allergies all over my body (must be that beta-carotene rice of Nutri-Options), I keep scratching every three seconds arrrgh and Amber by 311 keeps ringing in my head (Woah amber is the color of your energy..woah)

it's bed time for me, my eyes are starting to get that burning feeling.

think happy thoughts!

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