Last term, I realized how dependent students have become to Old Testaments (OT’s are a student’s old quizzes, seat works, reports given repeatedly by some professors). It’s not that I’m exempting myself. In fact, I confess that OT’s have saved me for a number of times last term. What I am saying is that just like any other valued thing in this world, OT usage somehow is on the abused line. It’s really okay to use them as long as we understand them, as long as we take time reviewing them. But merely memorizing them like AABBCDADBC is another thing. Once we get outside, there’ll be no more OT’s. And I myself am scared to get outside not so confident of my skills. The number figures we would have later on in our transcripts could be questionable, not maybe by professors or by employers but by ourselves. We should not let one day come that we would question our own skills and our own licenses. Let’s consider it a sin against our being engineers if we graduate not knowing how to use breadboards.
During school days especially during hell weeks, seldom that I am left in the kitchen to prepare something edible for the family coz usually, I am left there just to put something in my mouth for basic human survival. Hehe. So most of the time, I take advantage of the free one week between terms to do something very different from circuits and papers. The first day usually is for me to gather up all the paper works of the past term, have them compiled, organized and stack neatly on my cabinets. After that is saying goodbye temporarily to my usual life and there go for lighter and sweeter things such as cooking with my mother, watching movies with the whole family, laughing and chatting with my them and friends, visiting my granny, cousins and other relatives, just walking around at night, eating with and just sitting beside Kitkot without thinking of reports after, sleeping!!!!, thanking God for such a wonderful time to relax for a while, etc. How I love simple things.
