UST Files: Second Week of MA

I am going to be very honest with you. I can say that I am struggling just to get by in my MA in UST, and it's only the second week.

There were some difficulties that I eventually encountered since the first day of classes. First, I had no idea what my professors and classmates were talking about in English class. And you ask, why don't I have any idea, it's an English class anyway. It would be interesting to note that the class is not just a regular English class where you have to learn about grammar or whatsoever. What's being discussed in that class is higher English. They talk about linguistics, acquisition of English as a second language and things like that. English is not my major, literature is. English majors talk about English and the society and stuff like that. Literature concentrates on a different thing.

Yesterday, one of my classmates delivered a report, and it was excellently done, but the professor was still asking for more. San ka pa, di ba? What would happen to me next week when I deliver my report? I haven't even read my report, for crying out loud!

What's even more annoying is the fact that the professor in my English class consumes up all of the time that we have. Usually, professors should dismiss the class 10 minutes early so that the students would have time to transfer from one building to another. Our professor consumes even five more minutes passed the allotted time. I had to run from the graduate studies building to the Creative Writing classroom which is still found on the other side of the campus.

My classmates from Literary Criticism class are very accommodating and all. What I don't get that much is our lesson. I have a great fear that this won't be an easy semester for me. I didn't get any of the prerequisite subjects that I should have gotten this semester because all of the subjects are closed. I wasn't able to enroll on an earlier date because of the faculty retreat.

Anyway, we were dismissed early by Prof. Dimalanta in Literary Criticism class because some of the students eventually brought food for her birthday. I wasn't supposed to go and eat because I was too shy to do so. Just imagine someone whom you do not know crashing into your party and you'd just see that person eating the food off a plate that you bought. That would be weird. But anyway, they invited me to come despite the fact that they didn't even know my name. :D

Food! :D

We ate inside the UST Creative Writing Center, and I ate as much as I can so I would not drop by Jollibee anymore. Kapal ng mukha, no?

How they treated Prof. Dimalanta was reminiscent of how we treated Sir Jess before. It really brings back memories.

Prof. Dimalanta (the woman, of course)

More food! :D

I dropped by the library before I went home, causing me to arrive at about 9:30pm. Went I was home, I instantly fell asleep. That's how tired I was.

This part of the Humanities library amazed me. :)

As early as now, I decided that I won't pursue my studies for the second sem, with money as the foremost consideration. I'll tell you about that sometime.

Oh well. That's life.