TGIF
I got an A for my assessment class. YAY! =)
Funny, my professor wrote this comment on my portfolio: "You've done a great job of finding ways to do that (applying concepts to education outside the classroom). I hope the course met your needs without causing too much awkwardness in assignments for you."
If she only knew how much I bitched about the workload. Anyhow, I'm glad and thankful I got an A for the class.
I decided to reward myself by updating my blog. Haha =) Talk about procrastination. Amgine, thanks for the tip. I created an account on Blogrolling, as you suggested. And NV, you'd be so proud of me. I figured out how to insert codes in my template. I even figured out how to change the color for the text displaying the links to other people's blogs.
Btw, to everyone I linked to this blog, I hope you don't mind. Let me know if you want me to delete your blogs from the links.
Okay, gotta go. I've been in this computer lab for almost three hours, just blogging my ass off. More after my finals are over. In the meantime, pray for me, everyone. Hey i.n., good luck rin sa finals!
Take care and happy weekend!
One down, three more to go
Tonight is one of the rare moments when I can see light at the end of the tunnel, as far as my life in grad school is concerned.
I just got done with one final project about an hour ago. My groupmates (in my Philanthropy class) and I did our final presentation tonight about the foundation we did research on the entire semester. We examined different programs or aspects of the foundation (whatever we covered in our papers) and the foundation's ability to deliver change for our paper, in the format of a trial. It was tough putting all our stuff together, and we ended up revising our slides till the last minute, but in the end, we pulled it off. I have to say, we did a good job in our presentation. Career to death
talaga. Hehe =) I was a bit nervous because I didn't I knew my stuff that much, and remembering my sucky paper just made things worse. I also didn't get to prepare for my part that much because I bummed around (due to burnout)--all weekend and worked on my statistics assignment till 4AM today. I also had to do a guest lecture on the Philippines for a class taught by Mark, a student in the Ph.D. program in sociology who has become my new friend, this morning, and I didn't get back to campus till 130PM or so. I had to work, so I didn't get to organize my section till 4PM. I'm also pretty shy about speaking in front of a group. I had offered to defend the foundation and I felt I had a weak case, compared to my groupmates who were more critical about it.
Surprise, surprise. I, as well as my groupmates, ended up winging it. Since I'm usually quiet, shy, and soft-spoken in class (and in general, haha), I think I was just as surprised as my classmates to find out that I can actually argue well in public and get other people to consider my side, or even agree with me. One of my groupmates ended up building on my case and she prefaced her remarks by saying, "To add to what my good defense colleage has said...yada yada..." Hehe,
natawa naman ako. With the exception of one groupmate who was assigned to be the devil's advocate, my groupmates ended up alluding to what I had said throughout the presentation, so we pulled off a convincing defense. I also came up with good facts and "objections" on spur of the moment, which surprised my groupmates, who later told me they would never have thought of the points I raised. The guy who did the "prosecution" piece later commented about how he was caught off-guard by the way I challenged him. My professor and our other classmates, who also got into the trial we had staged, told us that we did a good job, overall, and they liked our style. Hehe, God is good
talaga. Oh, by the way, my professor hinted that she took the side of the defense.
I'm not gonna tell my parents or my
ate about the group presentation because if they find out about my sudden self-realization about my argumentative skills--the little of it that I have--they might use it as a reason to bug me about law school for the nth time. I can imagine what my dad and older sister would say to me, given their "career-centric" tendencies. Haha =)
One of our groupmates was absent tonight and we never heard from her the entire weekend, either. I wonder what happened to her, and I hope she's okay. She was always really detached from the group. She never sent us her slides for the PowerPoint presentation, and until tonight, we were wondering what the heck she would cover if she hadn't sent us her part of the presentation. But then we figured out she wouldn't come to class at all. We were right. We just had to tell our professor we hadn't heard from her.
I'm just so glad the presentation is over. I'm getting my paper back next week, and I don't want to worry about it. For now, I have three more finals to work on--my stats assignment, my thesis (whatever comes out of it), and my project in the workshop I'm taking on Designing a Syllabus or something--and another guest lecture (on EDSA Dos) to do for my roommate's class, and I'm done for this sem.
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I'm turning 25 on Sunday and I'm still in denial about it. Haven't even figured out what to do for my birthday.
Another song I like and an angsty note
For R--I should have known better. Then again, it's hard to talk sense into my heart.
I'm still searching for that part of me that disappeared the day you cut me out of your life.
Walk Away
Bree Sharp
The moon is pulling at me, The moon is pulling at you
You swear to me it's the sun that's shining through
It's hard to push for the truth when lies are easy to find
I'm left with I'm left with this trouble in mind
I'm left to counting the days
While my life drifts away
Cause you come and go again like the tide
While on the shoreline I stand washed of my pride
and the truth I keep pushing aside
is that it's time to walk away
Big guns are pointed at me, Big guns are pointed at you
Everybody's waiting to see what we're gonna do
You spin around and disappear under the floor where i stand
I'm left with I'm left with a bag in my hand
I'm left to counting the days
while my life drifts away
Cause you come and go again with the tide
While on the shoreline I stand washed of my pride
and the truth I keep pushing aside
Is that it's time to walk away
Night closes in but I hear the water rush in
To his song I'm a slave
I start to sink where I stand I become part of the sand
he covers me like the sea- like a wave
The road is turning for me The road is turning for you
The light is red like a fire but you drive on through
I stay behind and hear you call
You should have known this from the start!
I'm left with I'm left with a piece of my heart
Cause you come and go with the tide
While on the shoreline I stand washed of my pride
and the truth I keep pushing aside
Is that it's time to walk away....
On self-censorship
After reading NV's post about people losing their jobs after ranting about the companies they worked for, I realized I'd better be more careful about what I write about work. So I deleted my recent posts about the turn of events at the place I work for right now. Granted,
bilang na ang araw ko sa office. But I've come to realize I should still play it safe so I'm censoring my thoughts and issues about work for now. I don't want to risk anything.
My finals are coming up so I have to lie low on blogging for the next couple of weeks. Pray for me. I need more than divine intervention to make it through this sem.
Peace out, y'all!
found herself @ 7:19 PM
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