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Christmas Break: Day 1

Posted on December 19, 2009 Posted in Journal .

It’s finally Christmas break and I ended the “year” with a Christmas Party with my org friends. Actually, there was a lunch for my friend’s birthday awhile ago, but due to my recent bout of cough, colds, sore throat and that ever intrusive monthly visitor, I wasn’t able to wake up in time to attend.

Either way, I’m breathing a heavy sigh of relief that I have a break to do the things that I need to do. Early this week, I had to submit the first draft for my thesis paper, which I can honestly say is very much lacking. Compared to my thesis proposal which I had submitted last semester (about 2 months ago), there were many parts that had to either be replaced or removed so practically my thesis paper has to start from semi-scratch. This break, my goal is to re-edit the parts that I’ve written so far since I can afford the time to do so, as well as add on the parts that I can add on which I wasn’t able to include into the first draft. Also, I have to do some content analysis for my paper, which I have to do this Christmas break, or else I’m screwed. Plus 2 midterm oral examinations on the first week back from school next year, both on the same day. One for my Theology class, the other for my Philosophy class. It’s surely gonna be a treat. Note the sarcasm please.

For the Christmas season, I always dread its coming since I never really know what to get my friend’s for Christmas. Sometimes, I just end up buying them food since it makes it a whole lot easier not to think about their individual wishes and such. It doesn’t help that people answer “You can get me anything” whenever you ask them for what they want. Either way, the mall closest to where I live is one of the “hotspots” for Christmas shopping, so going there anytime before Christmas would be suicide. The best time to go there would probably be around end of December to early January, if I have the time and money to still buy my special friends a gift. Poor me, since my personality is the kind that wishes to get everyone a gift. Would seriously do so if I could afford it.

Also, besides today marking the first day of Christmas break, today is also the 22nd wedding anniversary of my parents. Whoopdedoo. To make it something that can be remembered, it’s my age plus one year. Sometimes, I can’t imagine that my parents have already been together for 22 years. Then I look back on my own life, and still can’t help imagine that I’m 21 already. Haha.

Time really flies by quickly. Looking back at everything here, it sometimes strikes me as odd how I’m close to graduating from college. Who knew time would pass me by so quickly?

Do or Die

Posted on November 19, 2009 Posted in Journal .

Professor announced it a week ago, but the deadline for Thesis has been pegged at February 23,2010. Failure to submit = FAIL. Had a talk with my professor awhile ago, and I just need to talk to one of my professors in the department to confirm him as my thesis adviser. Also, discussed the errors in my thesis proposal. God, every page had so many comments on them. It’s just so depressing when I think about it. I’ve only got 3 months left before the deadline, and i have to do so many edits (basically a revamp of my thesis proposal) plus following through with my plans for thesis.

SO LITTLE TIME LEFT. T_T

Fearing the finality

Posted on June 17, 2009 Posted in Journal .

After being asked countless instances if I had a thesis class, my answer has always been a “I don’t think so” or “I don’t know”. On the second day of classes, while on my way to my Research Methods class, I found out that that class was in fact my thesis class. Oh boy. So much for not worrying so much about my thesis for the first semester. In addition to that, the clarification I got from reading the syllabus for class is that it’s more of a pre-thesis thesis class, than a simple thesis class. For that one hour and a half of our first meeting, I’ve already seen a glimpse of what that class entails, which is work research work.

I’m sort of scared, I guess. I have no idea what to write for my thesis, and this semester is going to be really important because our homework 2 weeks from now requires me to take seriously, what thesis topic I’ll be considering, seeing as we’ll begin collecting info as early as now.

Scary, freaky, scary. This is one glimpse of being a senior that I really hate, writing and researching for my thesis. Every time an adult mentions college, they always look back and mention their dissertation, their thesis, their last paper, etc. It always manages to make me insecure, how one can research and decide on any one topic, the one topic that sort of defines your college life’s work. If only my major wasn’t in it’s first “official” graduation year, in other words, this is the first time that anyone from our course is graduating since the course was created as a major while in my second year. If only we weren’t the first batch, I’d have some idea from previous theses as to what to write.

Oh well. I just have to deal with the workload, and the fear. Oh plus working for the yearbook. What I once thought to be an almost stress-free last year at university, will in fact be the total opposite.

This is me, fearing the finality of what all that I’m doing, means and will become. The final-ity of my last year in university.