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Never.Say.Die

Dear Students, The news about the increasing deaths by suicide because of academics among your age group is saddening and alarming. As a teacher my mind set is to give you the grades and the policies that you deserve. So it is important that I be as objective as possible at my evaluation techniques and calculations. In the first place, you are the ones responsible for what you get at the end of the semester. You have the whole semester to build it up. I am just supposed to facilitate your learning during that period, compile your work, evaluate it and compute the final output. Grades are supposed to be a measure of how well you have learned or performed at a certain subject. I have observed that many of you, though not all, easily give up once you encounter things that you have no solutions to. This is manifested by: forgetting that your exams are scheduled on certain dates; submitting your papers too early because you do not know the solutions to your exams and laboratory

parang masaya maging mundane...

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Tapos na ang sem ko at libre na akong magsulat at magisip ulit ng kung anu-ano. Not that I do not think naman of kung anu ano when the semester is on-going (I am weird like that), pero ngayon naisip ko parang masaya maging MUNDANE. Una. ano nga ba ang ibig sabihin ng mundane? sabi ng Meriam Webster Dictionarydefinition 2: characterized by the practical, transitory, and ordinary: commonplace <the mundane concerns of day-to-day life> In short pagsinabi mong mundane, ito yung mga bagay na hindi importante. yung tipong mababaw lang. Pangalawa: Bakit ko naisip na parang masaya maging mundane? Kasi feeling ko (eto nagbubuhat na ako ng sariling bangko, pero honest lang) hindi ako mundane. to the point na kahit ako nakokomplikaduhan ako sa sarili ko paminsan. I am weird like that. I think about ways on how I would want to change the world, how I would want to create a positive impact in the Philippines, how I would like to get the coveted scholarship to further my studies para balang