Posts

Showing posts with the label milestones

How an Exam Taught Me Lessons

Image
source:www.google.com Honestly - the journey towards the Licensure Examination was exhilarating . It's been a roller coaster ride, except that it's running in an agonizingly slow motion. Can you imagine that? Being in a scary, huge, high roller coaster where you feel all sorts of emotions - excitement, fear, uncertainty, depression, boredom, anxiety, hope?  I'm pretty sure we experienced varying degrees of emotions. We all had our fair share of doubts. I assume we all anticipated the worst in most of the times, only giving ourselves a chance to get a glimpse of what is beautiful once in a while. We sacrificed some things in order to come out as a victor.  Let's call spade a spade, these sorts of exams are life-changing . The process in itself is meticulous so much more when the time comes that we're facing the test questionnaires. As for me, there were times when I've asked myself why I'm doing this, what I got myself into, what future await...

Ending A Chapter

Image
  After a total of 16 years of doing home works, preparing projects and beating deadlines, at last, I am now ending the last chapter of being a student in an institution, of being in the four-walled classroom. All those times, I have been nagging about how difficult it is to study and successfully pass the exam, how exhausting it is to meet the requirements and how nerve-wrecking it is to meet new people. Thus, having to reach the graduation stage, is such a big relief, not only to me but to my family.  March 28, 2015, Saturday was the big day. In the morning, we already started the preparations. I woke up early and did my own make up. This was my face before I put on some light make up, I know it's weird, really. Haha Me, after putting on some blushes, gloss and fixed my hair. Feeling proud I was able to do this by myself. We had to be on the venue not later than 1 pm for the processional. The graduation rites was to be performed at the University of San ...