I am very eager to share that today is my last day as an official ES 11 (Course Definition: Statics of Rigid Bodies) student. This distinctive occasion was marked by my last long examination on trusses, frames, shear force and bending moment. It seemed only fitting that I began my career as an ES 11 student by acing the first long exam and ended it by failing my very last.

Figuring out that my grasp of Mechanics is mediocre at best, I ditched all thoughts of shifting to Applied Physics. I guess I’ll just have to let Andy handle the more complicated/abstract stuff. Even then, much as I would prefer Engineering Mechanics to rest in peace, I’m afraid it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

I have always looked forward to graduating and getting a job.

Right now, I am six semesters away from graduating. That is if passing my majors is just a walk in the park. Well, assuming that I am capable of being exceptional, I’m still not close to getting halfway through college. So I resort to daydreaming.

My bumming has brought me to euphoria. Thanks to my very talented imagination, I have created the perfect life-after-college story line out of the many figments from the past. But before I could even ‘come to terms’ with this bliss, it had to crumble down to the ground.
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My fourth semester in UP finally culminated today. It felt liberating to pass by the ES department knowing that I have finished (hopefully) three of the six required ES subjects this semester.

Another semester is about to end. And after spending almost 4 semesters in college, I have realized how odd I have transformed. Here are some of the general things I believe I have been practicing since college.

1. 6 AM is sleeping time, not waking time.
2. I have mastered the art of cooking noodles.
3. I have memorized the hotlines of all the fastfood chains along with their schedule, menu and price list.
4. In college, any class that starts before noon is early.
5. An average of one full meal on weekdays, two on weekends.
6. Allowance doesn’t always suffice.
7. Breakfast, if there is any, consists of cereal or sandwich and anything with caffeine.
8. 4 hours of sleep in bed is too much.
9. Going to the library is a social event.
10. I skip a class to write a paper for another.
11. I stay up late to finish problem sets then sleep through the class in which it was due.
12. I never realized so many people are smarter than me.
13. I never realized so many people are dumber than me.
14. I have met the type of people I thought only existed in movies.
15. Printers and laptops break down only when I desperately need them.
16. Life without Piscine(laptop), my phone and Viridian(iPod) is unimaginable.
17. A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas!
18. Class size doubles on exam days.
19. An hour and a half of Philosophy or Chemistry class seems like forever.
20. You have to be street smart to survive. Diskarte=success.