Vacation Mode
It has been half a month since my first year in law school officially ended, with our last examination in Legal Ethics (although I still had a requirement to pass the following Monday for our Theology class- yes, we have Theology class and Thank God that we have it!). I capped the year by singing with my law school buddies at Music Match just to relax and release the stress caused by the final examinations.
So now, I am back to being a bum while waiting for the summer classes to start. I have INTENDED to do some backlog readings in Obligations and Contracts (Naks! INTEND lang naman, eh) during the last week of March to keep me busy, but I have not been (completely) successful (yet). I have only managed to read a few articles and commentaries of the Civil Code because of plain laziness and my current addiction to the old movies shown in Studio 23 and Channel 2 during lunchtime and afternoons. I just saw the movie Jologs for the first time the other day.
The complete grades for the first semester were released two weeks prior to the finals week, and my grades turned out to be higher that what I expected. I was hesitant to get it at first, thinking that it might affect the way I perform in the upcoming examinations. But after failing to contain my curiosity and assuring myself that nothing can be worse than my dismal Criminal Law grade and that I am mature (?) enough to accept whatever the results were, I eventually got my grades. I still did not meet the required retention grade, but the good thing is I am only 0.5 short of it and it is still possible to catch up! Had my most incompetent teacher in the first semester given me a higher grade than 75W in his subject, I would have nailed the retention grade. I would have been thankful had he given me 76. But that is already the past and I will try not to dwell on it.
I just hope that my efforts in the second semester will pay-off and translate into good grades. Although I think that I performed relatively better this semester, I still try not to be confident because my fate still depends on the powers that be. It is best to follow Albus Dumbledore’s words and “not count my O.W.L.S. until they have been delivered” (i.e. until the lady in the Dean’s Office tells me in my face whether or not I have been retained). I am sure that the school authorities will be stricter in screening us students this time, given the school’s not-so-impressive performance in the 2005 Bar Examinations (the school’s lowest passing percentage in the last 15 years). If I eventually don’t make the cut, it’s okay. I’ll live.
But I was not entirely unproductive in the last two weeks! In fact, I spent the last two weeks by writing a speech for an aunt who was asked to be the commencement speaker in her high school alma mater and processing my cross-enrollment in UP Diliman this summer for the 9 units of English and Filipino subjects that I still lacked. I had planned to find part-time work this summer to earn some extra cash for my summer escapades and future expenses (i.e. law books, daily allowance and cell phone loads) but unfortunately I had not found any. And I also doubt if I could actually work, since I would be taking 3 units of English and 6 units of Filipino this summer, which would obviously eat up my day. I intend to enroll in English 12 (World Literature), Filipino 25 (Istilo ng Pagsusulat), and Filipino 50 (Introduksyon sa Panitikan ng Pilipino), which I hole will be fun, easy and interesting. I would have also wanted to enroll in a Spanish class, but cross-registrants are only allowed to enroll a maximum of 9 units, and I don’t think they will bend the rule just because I happened to be fascinated with the language. So I would just brush up my Spanish on my own because I have already forgotten much of what I learned. I am even watching Dora the Explorer now because my nephew now knows a few Spanish words because of the show.
I have not planned or gone to a single outing yet (because I am cash-stripped!), but I am hoping that I could come to the get-together cum outing which my friends from DFA had planned.
So now, I am back to being a bum while waiting for the summer classes to start. I have INTENDED to do some backlog readings in Obligations and Contracts (Naks! INTEND lang naman, eh) during the last week of March to keep me busy, but I have not been (completely) successful (yet). I have only managed to read a few articles and commentaries of the Civil Code because of plain laziness and my current addiction to the old movies shown in Studio 23 and Channel 2 during lunchtime and afternoons. I just saw the movie Jologs for the first time the other day.
The complete grades for the first semester were released two weeks prior to the finals week, and my grades turned out to be higher that what I expected. I was hesitant to get it at first, thinking that it might affect the way I perform in the upcoming examinations. But after failing to contain my curiosity and assuring myself that nothing can be worse than my dismal Criminal Law grade and that I am mature (?) enough to accept whatever the results were, I eventually got my grades. I still did not meet the required retention grade, but the good thing is I am only 0.5 short of it and it is still possible to catch up! Had my most incompetent teacher in the first semester given me a higher grade than 75W in his subject, I would have nailed the retention grade. I would have been thankful had he given me 76. But that is already the past and I will try not to dwell on it.
I just hope that my efforts in the second semester will pay-off and translate into good grades. Although I think that I performed relatively better this semester, I still try not to be confident because my fate still depends on the powers that be. It is best to follow Albus Dumbledore’s words and “not count my O.W.L.S. until they have been delivered” (i.e. until the lady in the Dean’s Office tells me in my face whether or not I have been retained). I am sure that the school authorities will be stricter in screening us students this time, given the school’s not-so-impressive performance in the 2005 Bar Examinations (the school’s lowest passing percentage in the last 15 years). If I eventually don’t make the cut, it’s okay. I’ll live.
But I was not entirely unproductive in the last two weeks! In fact, I spent the last two weeks by writing a speech for an aunt who was asked to be the commencement speaker in her high school alma mater and processing my cross-enrollment in UP Diliman this summer for the 9 units of English and Filipino subjects that I still lacked. I had planned to find part-time work this summer to earn some extra cash for my summer escapades and future expenses (i.e. law books, daily allowance and cell phone loads) but unfortunately I had not found any. And I also doubt if I could actually work, since I would be taking 3 units of English and 6 units of Filipino this summer, which would obviously eat up my day. I intend to enroll in English 12 (World Literature), Filipino 25 (Istilo ng Pagsusulat), and Filipino 50 (Introduksyon sa Panitikan ng Pilipino), which I hole will be fun, easy and interesting. I would have also wanted to enroll in a Spanish class, but cross-registrants are only allowed to enroll a maximum of 9 units, and I don’t think they will bend the rule just because I happened to be fascinated with the language. So I would just brush up my Spanish on my own because I have already forgotten much of what I learned. I am even watching Dora the Explorer now because my nephew now knows a few Spanish words because of the show.
I have not planned or gone to a single outing yet (because I am cash-stripped!), but I am hoping that I could come to the get-together cum outing which my friends from DFA had planned.
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