Contributor: Tanjayanon
Final General Weighted Average: 1.75.
I can’t help but smile after seeing my grade. This is indeed the most fulfilling part of schooling – knowing that the fruits of your labor are paying off. For me, it was the semester that I got the highest general average grade. One point seventy five – not bad! Well, if only my life didn’t take its most remarkable turn that semester, these things will never happen.
I remember how far I’ve come after that best semester of my life. Today, I will reminisce who I was.
Just like others, I was all alone. I was like some students who sheepishly stay in one corner without anybody to talk to. To be exact, I was a loner. I did not make friends other than my original friends and all I ever wanted was to be out of school! During classes, I couldn’t raise my hands nor utter a word. Worse, people stare at me as if I have committed something bad against them. And I hate it.
It seems like my world that time stopped turning. While walking in the university hallway, my head used to be always filled with wishes, wishes, and nothing but wishes. I would always wish that I should have not enrolled, that I should have been out of school, that I was eating at home, that I was dipping my body with the caresses of my pillows and with a remote control in my hand, and that my wishes would happen the moment I’m wishing for it.
There was one time when amidst my wishes and daydreams, I woke up with the dreaded face of my teacher, looking at me like a beast that have just gone out from its cage. He was the worst! I could remember how he irritates me with his never-ending tests (which were, well, done once every week), his projects that I often call “paper torments”, and his unending lectures about anything and everything under the sun. It bored me to the fullest!
Day after day, I wished I was with my friends. In the last few minutes of my last Friday class, my toes were literally itching. Disco bars in Dumaguete City are at reach every Friday night. Driving in the streets and searching for some hot chicks to ask numbers from was one of the best things to do every Friday night. And when Sunday evening comes, and I think about school, my life suddenly turned like a river running dry, drier, and even drier…
For one school year, a day at school for me was like a year of anguish and torment! For me, everyday is just the same old day. But not until I met someone who changed not only the way I look at studying, but the way I looked at my whole life. She was someone who influenced me to suddenly make a painful-yet-better turn in my life.
I met Shine in one of those pensive Friday nights with friends. From the time our eyes met, I knew she was the one. She was imbued with almost everything a guy wishes for. Unlike the typical Friday night girls, she knows how to mix fun without risking her studies. And when I talked to her, I realized how much I’ve wasted my days at school with all of my daydreams. She talks about what she learned from even the tiniest interesting ideas in her class to the learning she gets from the few requirements that we often make together.
When Shine came, I did not only realize that as a teenager, I can mix enjoyment with studying and learning. I also realized that LOVE can be used to maneuver a person to be inspired in doing better things. After knowing Shine, I was never the same person. I found myself doing my best in class, knowing that learning and studying is something that will soon bear lasting, sweet fruits.
One point seventy five – not bad! I know this is only the start of a fruitful life. Now that I’m 20, I have never been much thankful to someone the way I’m thankful to Shine.
*Tanjayanon is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration student of the university who is a confessed Facebook.com addict. He loves studying with Shine and plays his favorite Facebook application, Farmtown, during his free times.
Final General Weighted Average: 1.75.
I can’t help but smile after seeing my grade. This is indeed the most fulfilling part of schooling – knowing that the fruits of your labor are paying off. For me, it was the semester that I got the highest general average grade. One point seventy five – not bad! Well, if only my life didn’t take its most remarkable turn that semester, these things will never happen.
I remember how far I’ve come after that best semester of my life. Today, I will reminisce who I was.
Just like others, I was all alone. I was like some students who sheepishly stay in one corner without anybody to talk to. To be exact, I was a loner. I did not make friends other than my original friends and all I ever wanted was to be out of school! During classes, I couldn’t raise my hands nor utter a word. Worse, people stare at me as if I have committed something bad against them. And I hate it.
It seems like my world that time stopped turning. While walking in the university hallway, my head used to be always filled with wishes, wishes, and nothing but wishes. I would always wish that I should have not enrolled, that I should have been out of school, that I was eating at home, that I was dipping my body with the caresses of my pillows and with a remote control in my hand, and that my wishes would happen the moment I’m wishing for it.
There was one time when amidst my wishes and daydreams, I woke up with the dreaded face of my teacher, looking at me like a beast that have just gone out from its cage. He was the worst! I could remember how he irritates me with his never-ending tests (which were, well, done once every week), his projects that I often call “paper torments”, and his unending lectures about anything and everything under the sun. It bored me to the fullest!
Day after day, I wished I was with my friends. In the last few minutes of my last Friday class, my toes were literally itching. Disco bars in Dumaguete City are at reach every Friday night. Driving in the streets and searching for some hot chicks to ask numbers from was one of the best things to do every Friday night. And when Sunday evening comes, and I think about school, my life suddenly turned like a river running dry, drier, and even drier…
For one school year, a day at school for me was like a year of anguish and torment! For me, everyday is just the same old day. But not until I met someone who changed not only the way I look at studying, but the way I looked at my whole life. She was someone who influenced me to suddenly make a painful-yet-better turn in my life.
I met Shine in one of those pensive Friday nights with friends. From the time our eyes met, I knew she was the one. She was imbued with almost everything a guy wishes for. Unlike the typical Friday night girls, she knows how to mix fun without risking her studies. And when I talked to her, I realized how much I’ve wasted my days at school with all of my daydreams. She talks about what she learned from even the tiniest interesting ideas in her class to the learning she gets from the few requirements that we often make together.
When Shine came, I did not only realize that as a teenager, I can mix enjoyment with studying and learning. I also realized that LOVE can be used to maneuver a person to be inspired in doing better things. After knowing Shine, I was never the same person. I found myself doing my best in class, knowing that learning and studying is something that will soon bear lasting, sweet fruits.
One point seventy five – not bad! I know this is only the start of a fruitful life. Now that I’m 20, I have never been much thankful to someone the way I’m thankful to Shine.
*Tanjayanon is a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration student of the university who is a confessed Facebook.com addict. He loves studying with Shine and plays his favorite Facebook application, Farmtown, during his free times.
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