having a great summer vacation?

April 10, 2007- I started my summer class… And since then… . .. . . . . . . . . . …… well… I lost track of everything except for my studies.

My class is from Monday to Friday from 8:00am-6:00pm. I have 11 units (4 subjects) in which I take everyday. These are Nursing Care Management 101, Bio-Chemistry (Lecture), Bio-Chemistry (Lab) and Principles and Strategies of Teaching and Learning. I must admit that I don’t have enough time to prepare for my everyday class/subjects or maybe I just don’t know how to manage my time. It is a good thing that I don’t have a class on Saturdays but the burden is I don’t get to enjoy my lunch break. Would you believe that my lunch is only for 30-45 minutes, plus you have to worry on quizzes and graded recitations? Well you have to! That is the real score. I spent almost 9 hours sitting on my chair, listening to the professor in a classroom which is sometimes frigid and sometimes sweltering, holding my pee for almost half an hour (I almost acquire UTI (Urinary Track Infection)), 2 hours of traveling time from home to school and vice versa. I can’t watch Grey’s Anatomy because I don’t have time to do a marathon, don’t get enough sleep—meaning 12 hours, for me and don’t get the chance to have a chit-chat with my new classmates, to be honest I barely know all of them (WE DON’T HAVE FREE TIME!). We are so wasted and bombarded with school works.

College life isn’t easy because your “Summer Time—-Vacation Time” will no longer be one instead, be the “Toxic Time” (God bless me). It’s either you enroll for summer or you will loose the chance to go to the next level. I’m glad that I was one of those who are blessed that qualified for the dreaded Far Eastern University – Institute of Nursing. I finally graduated from AHSE (Associate in Health and Science Education). In our orientation, the speaker said that if you are in the Institute of Nursing, you don’t have to be “Choosy” as his term. Well in that case I think I have to erase the second paragraph on my post (laughs). The main excuse for that is: This is the first time that I had a Summer Class–it is required. Is that valid? Anyway, I just need time for adjustment or coping should I say. You see, I m not with my friends anymore because unfortunately, they didn’t make it. It gives me a hard time because I m surviving in school because of their support or simply of their presence. Yes I have my classmates whom I knew before but my “Friends” ( I don’t call them “barkada” because in my own point of view “barkada” is somewhat of short term than “Friends—Real Friends”) are different. I really miss them. We can’t see each other that much because we have opposite free time. How sad…= ( Nevertheless, I have to continue and move on because I need to be at my best in my chosen course.

I don’t have my nursing skills yet but the toxicity is high, what more if I have RLE (Related Learning Experience) classes from the start. I just hope that I can balance my time, fulfill all the requirements and pass all my subjects in just 6 weeks. So help me God!

Posted by: Dianne Peña | 04-20-2007 | 02:04 PM
Posted in: Rhapsodies