Thursday, June 14, 2007

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Let's face it.

Everyone loves writing about their first day of classes.
Everyone loves talking about it. Everyone loves writing about it, typing about it, raving about it.

But not I.
I break tradition. I break the norm. I break expectation. I also break a lot of things beside what was mentioned, including promises, expensive Ming vases, and hearts.
RIIIIGHT. Super corny na.

Anyway, I'm breaking the usual by talking about my second day naman. Haha yun lang yun. After all the drama with the introduction and stuff.
So anyway.

Second day of classes. I have tons of blisters.
Damned flats, I say. Never wear them if you have a class in Kostka and Bellarmine the next. They make your feet hurt like hell. I still haven;t learned my lesson. Im bringing lots of band-aids tomorrow.

Everyone's new to everything.
Every freshman, I mean.
We all suffer from the same disease, this being the disease of ignorance.
We hardly know anything, therefore, we are constantly being embarrassed by our own idiocies.
We don't know how to swipe our IDs to enter the Rizal Lib. We don't know if the rows of chairs outside the MVP bookstore is for the purchasers. We don't know what we're going to do with all our diagnostic tests. We don't know if we'll be demoted to Math 1. We always don't know.
We always just don't.

I still don't know the proper locations of the proper buildings of my proper classes. I can't tell the difference of SEC A and all the other SECs there are upon appearance. I can't stand being alone during free periods and I walk like an idiot in my blue flats.

College feels weird. It feels new, but it doesn't. You somehow feel your freedom, but you also feel the pressure. I haven't gotten out of my summer vacation trance, though. I feel like college is all part of a very long summer break. With all the new rules and all the new people, you feel very, very unacquainted, and yet very, very familiar.

Oddly enough, I didn't feel anything particularly special about my being a college freshman. Before, of course, I used to take pride on being a HS freshie. Long sleeved uniforms possesed me and has made me this arrogant little biatch who looks down upon the Grade School people, who, in my opinion, knew nothing in this world that really mattered. Those scumbags used to look adoringly upon us, staring at our circular patch with a stitched number 1, and we felt great and powerful and ready to take on the world.

I used to bring my Bio and Chem books (my thickest ones) everywhere I go, lugging them around just to mock the lower batches of their incapability to inderstand genetics, balancing equations and phospsholipid bilayers.
I instantly loathed anything Grade School- and anything else that reminded me of my Grade School loserness, back when girl crushes are highly abundant (yuck) and lesbians ruled and dominated the population (double yuck).

Right now, I feel anything but superior. I won't be exactly jumping for joy if student of a lower batch from my HS giddily asks for college life details. It's just so random and so usual, even though it's not. College feels more like a large scale review center, swarming with different people of different 'cliques', with classes to catch, teachers to please, hallways to rush through and schedules to follow.

Of course, I didn't feel inferior as well. Upperclassmen don't seem to look down upon our newbie status, the obviousness of which has been very evident whenever we walk through SEC buildings clutching our backpack straps, not knowing where to go. The OrSem had been very welcoming, and not to mention, sort of weird in a way. Whenever we were asked to mobe out and all, a group of upperclassmen were sort of lined up t create a pathway for us, cheering and screaming and clapping and dancing and urging us to go and run to the next station. Then suddenly you sort of feel conscious and weird and suspicious all at the same time. You feel like you're Palm Sunday Jesus when he was welcomed by the same hypocrites who led him to his own crucifixion.

Not that I'm saying that upperclassmen are totally hypocritical, of course. I just felt like a star of a flop TV soap opera or something- they all cheering for me for a very shallow reason- or for none at all.

So ANYWAY, I'm putting up a list again, since I lovvvvve lists so much:

10 Fabulous Things About College:

10) SOM Mall- a less crowded, breezier version of the caf
9) Zen garden- there's something oddly appealing about it. Perfect for meet-ups and reviews and stuff.
8) CoEd-ness - finally after being forever surrounded with girls
7) More allowance - which translates to more savings
6) Study Hall - for cool-offs and babbling with blockmates
5) Excessive breaks - time to catch up with the latest gossip, or for nostalgia tripping
4) My awesome blockmates - (feeling) artistic, weird minds unite
3) New faces - I love new people, and meeting them, especially when they get to show you their inner awesomeness
2) UAAP Season- the perfect chance to show some school spirit. This time, when asked about my Ateneo support, I have no more excuses to make up.
Lastly,
1) It's ATENEO. (and Ateneo is love)

5 Sucky Things About College

5) My ID picture - I look like sh*t
4) Math - no one should take it personally. I just realy suck at math. Always have.
3) Diagnostic tests - those unexpected add-to-the-unpleasantness tests- gawd
2) Caf - the ordinary caf, when it's packed, it's PACKED
1) Blisters - the inevitable pain of blisters

Cheers.

Devious and Twisted,

Therese

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face it, sucko.

i'm the hero of fools.

all quoted.

"The sad truth is that the truth is sad."

"It's amazing how people are always willing to listen to a man in a funny costume"

"People don't always get what they deserve in this world"

"You can not be a supermodel."

"I'm beginning to think that washing my face is a complete waste of time"

"Most women would rather be Cindy Crawford than Marie Curie"

"The world is a harum scarum place."

"If a guy is witty, charming and artistic, he is probably gay."

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaraunt, filled with odd waiters who bring you items you never asked for and don't always like."

"In relationships, it is best to assume nothing."

"Not only am I very intelligent, but I am also very smart."

"Hey, I heard your friend died"

"Yea"

"Well, don't feel bad. He's an old guy, and that's what old guys do. They DIE."

"Certain things they should stay the way they are.You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know it's impossible but it's too bad anyway."

"I remember how, a couple of days ago, you and I killed a couple of hours with a computer game. Perhaps the game amused me more than it did you; I desperately needed a little respite from all my thoughts. But each time we 'died' in that game, a new screen immediately came up, and we were off again. How can we know that there isn't a 'new screen' for our souls as well? I don't think there is, I really don't. But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope."

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