wednesday, thursday, and friday--Judgement Day for me.

why?

because it's time for monthly exams. syet.

who would've thought that the day will come na i will have to force myself not to go out of the dorm and run to the nearest netshop?! whoa. tuesday afternoon was killing me. all sorts of questions kept popping in my head. how do they do the exams? which lessons do i need to focus on? do i answer in pencil or in pen? what if i had erasures? do we take it as a class lang, or do we have a big place where all the other freshmen also take the exam? mahirap kaya? pwede bang relax-relax lang, or seryosong aral talaga?

anyway, talagang nung tuesday night aral na aral ako. as in like, aral talaga. it was so not like me to focus on one subject and try to take in every single word from the hand-outs. syet talaga.

by wednesday morning, i woke up at 4.30am, waited until about ten-to-five, and went to shower. i had everything done, ready to go na ako by 6am--eh ang class ko is 7.30am pa. i had planned to go to school at around 6.50am, kasi iba yung room namin today, and since all i know is that sa third floor yun, i imagined i'd be going around in circles pa before i get to the right room. that 50minutes' waiting time at the dorm was the most unbearable 50minutes i've ever had. i was shaking, i was so nervous. at one point i wanted to run to the bathroom to barf--good thing that didn't happen. at last 6.50am came, i ran across the street and straight to the Dapitan gate, then to the med building. the classroom wasn't so hard to find, since i saw a classmate of mine going there too.

first test was psych1. i like psych. i dunno why. basta, astig. sir maglalang gave us a 41-page hand-out the day before (tuesday), so i spent the whole tuesday night reading it. thankfully, lumabas naman sa test yung mga nasa hand-out. medyo nakakagulo lang yung exam, kasi it's like the entrance test, except instead of shading the circle on the answer sheet, para siyang yung lotto ticket where you mark a diamond with a straight line. hehe. eh natanga ako kasi hindi ko alam kung tama ba yung pag-mark ko. we had a break from 9.00am-10.30am. filipino yung next, ayos lang naman. the typical things to expect sa exam. by 12nn, i was back at the dorm.

second day, thursday. exams were math101, english101a, and philo2. math, i didn't study much--read and scan lang sa notes. it's math eh--application ng pinag-aralan. it's not so much as memorizing notes or anything like that. the problem was, our teacher gave us a solution sheet nga, to put in our solutions, eh the problem was sobgrang liit nung boxes! as in dapat solution for number one is only here, for number two, only there. eh hindi ko mapagkasya! letsch! hanggulo! di ko rin natapos--i kept solving one item again and again eh, kasi wala yung answer ko sa choices. or maybe mali kasi yung choices. weh, bahala na. english was easy, parang pinaglaruan lang yung exam. basta, ganun. like, 6th grader stuff. hehe. kasi yung mga nakasama na sa long test last monday, hindi na niya sinama sa exams. eh nung monday, half yata ng lahat ng lessons namin yung nasa test, so we only had to think about the other half of what we've discussed for the past month or so. philo2--nakaka-ewan! haha. i dunno, it was sorta easy na hindi. the good thing was, kung ano yung mga nasa protocol namin, lumabas din sa exam, so may ready answers na kami.

the bad thing during philo2 was we had to take the exam in a big room--together with another section. they had like, more guys on their class (no gwapo, unlike sa amin--haha, kahit iilan lang, may mga mukha namang ihaharap! naks!). tapos yung guys pa nila sobrang ingay--as in grade-school-kids ang dating. (i wouldn't know kung high school ganun kaingay ang guys, di ba?). so anyway, our class is so full of mababait and studious people, so when we went inside the room, straight to studying and reviewing na. eh sila, puro maiingay--both the guys and the girls, mas maingay lang yung guys. so one of us shouted out, "pwede po bang tumahimik, kasi may mga nag-aaral eh?!" they other class shut up--pero afterwards, one of the guys started clapping in this annoying, and rude way. basta, nakakabastos. then one of us said, "ay, ang bastos!" then parang walang narinig yung kabilang class, nag-ingay ulit. hmp! sabi ng classmates ko sinabihan pa daw yung class namin, "lecheng section naman yan." ha! kami ang leche?! sino ba yung mga bastos and maiingay?! syet.

when friday came, parang my execution day came--chemistry111 Lec and Lab, tapos theology. weh, wala naman ako talaga masyadong care sa theo since basta nabasa ko yung CFC stuff, madali na. i was far too worried with chem111. syet. kakatakot talaga. the really bad thing was we were going to take it in room 603--kamusta naman yun! first exam, sa sixth floor! syet! eh sa dorm nga nasa 5th floor ako, so work-out na sa 'kin yung paglakad up and down ng dorm, tapos biglang sa school nasa 6th floor kami! syet. chemistry111Lec was hard. hehe. damn. pero chem111Lab was easier. haay. we finished both exams by 10.30am. eh theo was at 1.00pm pa! whew! hehe. i was inviting my classmates to go to SM eh, hehe. kaso we took a long time eating sa cafeteria. er, more like, watching our guy classmates sa kabilang side. we were on the 2nd floor kasi, eh may height limit ng 5'8--we were looking to see which of the guys were higher than 5'8. syet. napansin ata nung isang classmate namin, si pepe, hehe. kahiya! nagloko pa siya nung paalis sila, kunwari tumama yung head niya kasi he's more than 5'8 in height eh. ewan. sino pa ba more than 5'8? hmm...si francis ata and si gimo. i dunno. basta yun. tapos finally, theo came and nakapag-test na kami. of course it's theo, so there were stuff i didn't agree with, especially sa true or false set. may answers ako which i would say false, pero since ang tinuro ay true dapat, i marked yung true. hehe.

the sucky part about friday was we still had the freshmen welcome walk in the afternoon. so by 3pm, we were already drained. yung other colleges naman kasi hindi nag-monthly exam, yung mga nasa med-building and pharma people (like us) lang yata. so sobrang tired na ako, eh ang gulo. tapos siyempre nakasama na naman namin yung class na maingay. haay, naku! basta. magulong-magulo. the walk itself naman, when we finally walk through the arch of the centuries, maganda yung execution. we had the cadets there and stuff. parang grad ceremony yung dating, wahaha. kulang lang ng red carpet. then nag-mass sa labas ng main hall. nabinyagan pa namin yung grounds ng main hall! hehe. they've been fixing it kasi to become the alumni park (i think, haha) in time for UST's 400years in 2011. basta, freshmen from different colleges nandun. nakita ko pa si arnel after nung mass--he's in archi kasi eh. hehe. nice to see old classmates. sana pala di ako nakita nila aizel na naka-uniform. i've been trying to avoid bumping into her pag nasa school--titirahin talaga ko nun pag nakita akong naka-nursing uniform eh.

after the mass, may welcome rites eklat pa, then PAAARRRR-TAAAAYYY! yeah! haha. may party sa main hall grounds. i didn't attend, though. kasi gusto ko na umuwi. my classmate said tumugtog daw yung three bands (baka mga UST peeps lang), then soapdish.

syet. kapagod talaga yung week na yun. paano pa kaya sa prelims? waaaahh!!!