1ST SEM IS ALMOST OVER!!! WHAT'S NEXT?

MY SCHOOLING IS INTERFERING WITH MY EDUCATION! I know, that line wasn’t originally from me. I actually first heard it from Youtube’s Blogger Dan Brown. But I know for sure, that somehow that is exactly my point of view regarding my present education. Some of my friends told me that maybe I’m just bored, bored of studying… but WTF??? How can you feel bored if your future is at stake! Hell no! I’m not just simply bored of the way things are happening around the school, it’s just that I’m not that satisfied and it is so disturbing! I can’t even pass a day without thinking about it!

To the reader I want you to know how I am just being honest to myself, I’m not writing all this stuff because I have a traumatic experienced with either one of my profs or worst having something against my school or to anyone! THIS IS AN HONEST OPINION from a student who lately feel that SCHOOLING IS ACTUALLY INTERFERING HER EDUCATION! THIS SOUNDS CRAZY!

I dunno when and how this thought came up to me. It’s just that I woke up one day, went to school, and on my way to school suddenly I gave in to a thought, I was wondering, how and why everyday seems like a “replay”. Like you need to wake up and avoid being late… ( yes.. I suck on being on time! I’m always late! Arrr! Hate you Tina!) go to school, study some of the lessons your “instructor” instructed you to read but barely given you time for them to discussed it on class! WTF? Some will actually teach their students, yes that’s good, but what isn’t right is that they just give you an hour or so for a “talk-the-blah-blah-blah-and-let-the-student-understand-only-what-they-could-understand!”. What I mean is the traditional ways of learning! Like you sit in a class, you start to listen then scribble some of the notes written at the blackboard by your teacher. This way of learning is so passive! Yes some questions from the students were actually answered, but some was like, “ OK? And that’s for you to find out! Go on the library and do your research!” WTF?
It is as the old saying that goes, “Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a night. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime”. Having knowledge and knowing how to use it are two completely different things. Schools should not simply give facts to students, they should teach them to use the facts. The education system for me I think fails at the latter.
I’ve been into a class were in I just sat for like an hour or so then started getting confuse rather than absorbing the new concepts or ideas about what my professor was trying to teach us, not because I’m dumb, it was because I have honestly no idea about what my professor was talking about in the first place, and I supposed when we learn new things, first thing to do is to introduced it itself and I believe the professor miss that part! They tend to give us facts yet they fail to teach on how we could use it! In my own native tongue, “Kulang kulang ang turo ni ma’am or ni sir… sabi ko nga.. minsan ang pagtuturo.. parang chismis yan eh.. minsan kahit totoo na yung chismis eh kung kulang magiiba ng definition! Oh chismis nga Diba?” It is not enough to leave it all to the part of the student, learning is hand to hand system.
Schooling could have been exciting if everyday each students becomes so enthusiastic regarding their studies, and we could have got to that point only if we established “productive-ways” of learning! Like students will be able to have at least experience the touch of the “actual-thing” or the reality itself about their chosen career!
I’ve been in electronics engineering course for years but still I’m so sad because I feel unequipped about the area of my chosen career. Its not just about the school or the professor to blame, I admit as a student I’ve committed mistakes. It’s just that lately I’ve realized that there are actually so many ways to improve my “schooling”.
And now as the first semester has reached its end a new chapter is ready to open. Hello second semester! Haha. As for my friends, classmates and schoolmates or to everyone who think they must do the same, I encourage you all to start this coming semester with a bang! It’s not just about going to school. Let’s make it more like going to school for learning and for “my education”. As we all know schooling is essential in order for us to have a better education, so we just can’t simply give it up because we’re bored or unsatisfied, in fact we must make it more like us. I know sounds confusing and ridiculous somehow but what I mean is that we should make our schooling more interesting in our own ways. Focus on the things that will make us equipped and will help us to face the battle grounds of real world. And remember we don’t have to make all things perfect, but I think there’s no harm in trying. It’s better than doing nothing.

So smile lang tayo… take optimism at its best! Embrace your inner weirdness!

WELL DONE IS MUCH BETTER THAN WELL SAID! So let’s make it happen! Go Tina!!!! Haha.. ( 5 stars for Christina! Maybe she has taken her optimism vitamins! Lol)