110% student

next sem will be a blockbuster semester for me... i'll be a regular student!

• normal academic load (no more overloading for fun)
• no sidelines for me (i promise to do everything i can to refer all incoming jobs to other people)
• few organizations (yep, no more new commitments for the meantime. i think 3 orgs are enough for my last semester)

so that i'll have lots of time to spare! no more late-nights to finish non-academic deliverables... just plain late-night academic oil burning. something to make sure that i get to do the following :

• study like a regular student
• exercise and make sweet love with the jogging oval over at the high school
  
• do stuff without pressure (and sadly, without pay)
  
• get ready for the senior syndrome and that blue roast moment (hahaha)
  

this will be exciting. the last time i was a normal student was when i was a freshman in college.

when i got into ateneo, i couldn't believe the college topics were going to be easy. so i supplemented it with real world work. something to put the theories into application. i'm not bashing ateneo or saying the curriculum sucked - but it was necessary for me to if i wanted a good career like my parents. too many are already studying harder than me. i'm not going to swim with the current. allow me to go against the current please.

i also wanted to prove that you could get good grades while having fun. that life was not just about reading books and getting only one mistake per exam. i wanted to show the possibility of work mixing with play (and sometimes pay). hehe, and i almost proved it. no longer running for honors, my averaged grade just got a bit shy of getting that extra medal on march. but no regrets, i learned a lot and met a lot of great people along the way. great people who have helped me more than i have helped them. it's funny what zig ziglar said:

in order to get what you want, you should help others get what they want.

for people who want high grades, you should make sure your groupmates get high grades - which means performing at your peak all the time. for people who want to be successful in business, it means being fair to your partners - making sure you compensate your suppliers well enough for them to grow and serve you better. something like that.

hehe, can't wait until monday!

philo of religion - debater mode (there is no better intellectual massage)
history - favorite subject after math (because life is about tradition)
3D modelling - yeah, because i like models. (lol)
decision support systems - to be or not to be?
theo - there is a God
project management - i was born for this