Oh-bley-shun

It was a very momentous week for the University of the Philippines last week.

From its first campus in Padre Faura in 1908, the University is now celebrating its centennial year as the country’s national university. A lot of excessive, unnecessary activities were lined up for the Centennial Year. Aside from the regular Centennial Lectures, a Centennial Week was also scheduled. In fact, the UP Centennial Concert: Pamantasang Hirang was held for three nights at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Being a part of the University Student Council, I was privileged to get a free ticket for the Pamantasang Hirang. In UP Manila, a new Oblation Plaza situated in the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) was inaugurated–with a new Oblation, of course.

Still, the University has little reasons to celebrate.

Off-season?

After a dozen of days, I’m now back to blogging!

Whew, I almost decided to go off-season once again. Now that I’m back to school, a lot of academic and extra-curricular stuff hound me, and I think I’m only a hair strand away from craziness.

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FCUKING ENROLMENT

I hate this year’s enrolment process. I fcuking mean it.

The minute I saw the online pre-enlistment results, I knew that this would be a hard one. Out of nineteen units that I must take this semester, I only got fifteen from the enlistment, thus lacking a four-unit Economics 102 (Microeconomics) subject, which is a major subject. Out of three classes, two are already full. The remaining class, on the other hand, is in conflict with my Political Science majors. Heck, they want me to change the timeslots of some subjects, but that would mean overhauling my whole schedule, which is too late.

I know the fact that the College’s enrolment process is not-so-efficient, and that gave me the fear that I would not be able to get that subject because it is a pre-requisite. I thought of cross-registering that subject in Diliman, but the University won’t allow me to do so since the said subject is currently offered in our fucking beloved Manila campus.

Heck. The idea of a delayed graduation scares me, so I decided to take a cognate, Speech Communication 133 (Argumentation), in advance. Then I have two options: to cross-register Economics 102 in Diliman (since it is not offered in Manila next semester) or to take both Economics 102 and Economics 151 (Government Finance) on the first semester of my senior year. Well, both options suck.

Guess what? I’m not yet enrolled because of this. WTF.

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AFFILIATIONS AND STUDENT COUNCIL

In the first place, I love all my affiliations, especially our Fraternity and the University Student Council. I know the responsibilities I should assume upon my entrance to these organizations. Moreover, I’m aware of the toxicity level the Student Council might bring to me from the first day I campaigned.

You need a lot of squirting ideas for your projects to click, without really compromising the political value the students can get from those.

You need to make kapal of your face and a witty tongue to approach and talk with companies for them to sponsor your project.

You need to have a wide range of connections, from web designers, radio station and TV personnel, publishers, artists, bands, painters organizations and other key individuals or groups up to anime whatevers and drug pushers. LOL.

Unfortunately, I have less of those skills, if not zero.

These past few days, some sort of demoralization sink inside of me. I really feel that I’ve been working less inside the Student Council and even in my other organizations. To appease myself, I conversed with some of my friends, which are veterans in the Student Council. The talks were helpful. It made me realize that I should not collide the interests of my organizations and the Student Council. After all, they all help for the betterment of the students and of the country in the long run.

This should not be the time for me to be demoralized. I just need to learn these Student Council stuff one at a time.

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Although my academics, my organizations and the Student Council start to gradually eat me up, I do hope that The Political Buzzerbeater won’t go off-season this time.

P.S. I think these things are signs of aging. HECK. LOL.

P.S.S. The “Know the Buzzerbeater” page of this blog was edited. Try to read it.