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levityDid you know that ecology comes from the Greek word oikos (home), like economics does? Does that mean that home economics is redundant?
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What I did not do today, was miss a train. Well, that's not the only thing I did not do today. I did not study math today, or look for a Kom topic today, among other things. Let's be more accurate: one thing I did not do today that I fully expected to do, was miss a train. You know what they say about miracles? I do now.
Yup, you can fully expect to hear about trains every week.
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Being part of the cream of the cream of the crop has its disadvantages, the least of which is having to hear the phrase cream of the cream of the crop every day, till the day you die, and maybe even after. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not part of said cream of the cream of the crop, or selling something, or both.
For instance, if you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, you will not be labelled as arrogant before you even open your mouth. If you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, announcing your math score while jumping up and down with glee would be the joy of a student whose hard work in the subject has paid off. If you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, chatting with friends from other classes, greeting old schoolmates, sleeping in class, and generally being happy college students would be just that- being happy, if incredibly noisy college students. People laugh at you or laugh with you or shake their heads in amusement. They don't storm out of the room in disgust.
If you are, however- if you managed to get one of the slots many students in the country would kill to get into, and act like a normal colege student in any way, you are in trouble. You also happen to be entitled to have teachers walk out on you or threaten to stop teaching your class for talking while she is or saying hi to old schoolmates who pass by your classroom. And you can't complain, even when said teacher is bringing her personal life into the classroom, even when she says that she can drop your class at will because she isn't being paid for the amount of time she spends in the school (without stopping to wonder if we want not to graduate on time because of her subject, or if she would have walked out on, say, the Bio block or the Nursing block, or why she consented to teach our class in the first place even though she knew she wouldn't be paid for it), all because no one wants to teach your class. You should be grateful anyone is willing to teach a class of arrogant, irreverent idiots like you.
Being an iMed student is all it's cracked up to be, and so are teacher biases, if only because teachers who are mad at you for the principle of being you do not use the phrase "cream of the cream of the crop".
Dapat may mantra ang iMed students. Hindi kami mayabang, misunderstood lang. XD
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What I did not do today, was miss a train. Well, that's not the only thing I did not do today. I did not study math today, or look for a Kom topic today, among other things. Let's be more accurate: one thing I did not do today that I fully expected to do, was miss a train. You know what they say about miracles? I do now.
Yup, you can fully expect to hear about trains every week.
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Being part of the cream of the cream of the crop has its disadvantages, the least of which is having to hear the phrase cream of the cream of the crop every day, till the day you die, and maybe even after. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not part of said cream of the cream of the crop, or selling something, or both.
For instance, if you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, you will not be labelled as arrogant before you even open your mouth. If you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, announcing your math score while jumping up and down with glee would be the joy of a student whose hard work in the subject has paid off. If you are not part of the cream of the cream of the crop, chatting with friends from other classes, greeting old schoolmates, sleeping in class, and generally being happy college students would be just that- being happy, if incredibly noisy college students. People laugh at you or laugh with you or shake their heads in amusement. They don't storm out of the room in disgust.
If you are, however- if you managed to get one of the slots many students in the country would kill to get into, and act like a normal colege student in any way, you are in trouble. You also happen to be entitled to have teachers walk out on you or threaten to stop teaching your class for talking while she is or saying hi to old schoolmates who pass by your classroom. And you can't complain, even when said teacher is bringing her personal life into the classroom, even when she says that she can drop your class at will because she isn't being paid for the amount of time she spends in the school (without stopping to wonder if we want not to graduate on time because of her subject, or if she would have walked out on, say, the Bio block or the Nursing block, or why she consented to teach our class in the first place even though she knew she wouldn't be paid for it), all because no one wants to teach your class. You should be grateful anyone is willing to teach a class of arrogant, irreverent idiots like you.
Being an iMed student is all it's cracked up to be, and so are teacher biases, if only because teachers who are mad at you for the principle of being you do not use the phrase "cream of the cream of the crop".
Dapat may mantra ang iMed students. Hindi kami mayabang, misunderstood lang. XD
