Midterm Week

Midterm Examination is here again.  It was just a month ago that I took our trinal examination.  Time flies so fast.  it would be finals again before I knew it.  I wish to survive this semester with satisfactory grades.  Midterms officially started last Saturday with my Shariah subject.  I am now on my second day (Criminal Procedure).  Two down and five subjects more to go.  I hope I can pass all my examinations.  

This afternoon before I went to school, I touched the tummy of my two pregnant office mates while joking that if I would get a perfect score in my Crim Pro and Negotiable Instruments subjects, I will treat them to a free lunch.   Well, it won't hurt if I would really get a perfect score hehe.   I am not expecting to get that, I only wish to pass all my subjects but if God wills that I would get that elusive perfect score, it would be a big bonus for all my hard work.  It is not a big deal anyway, passing is already enough for me.


This is all for tonight guys, I have to go back to review my lessons in preparation for my Negotiable Instruments Law exam tomorrow.  Good luck to me!

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A Working Student's Life

Hello guys! How are you all?  It has been a long time since I was here.  I have been very busy as always with work and studies (hmmm…the irresponsible me).  I am sorry.  I am reading a case for my Constitutional Law subject tomorrow night.  I am in the middle of reading one of our assigned cases (Bautista vs. Juinio G.R. No. L-50908 January 31, 1984) and then I got bored and feel sleepy so I have to stop reading.  I can’t force myself to read anymore as it is just a waste of time.  I won’t understand everything already if I force myself to read.  I decided to blog for a few minutes to divert my attention.  I feel tired and I want to sleep already.  Maybe I will just continue reading tomorrow.  

 Last night, I set my cellphone’s alarm at 3 a.m. but for some reason, it did not go off.  It was already 6 a.m. when I woke up.  It is so frustrating.  I am still having difficulty waking up in the morning but I do not have a choice.  I can’t study during daytime as I am working the whole day.  I do not have the luxury of time.  Sometimes, I envy my classmates who are full time students.  They have time on their side. They can study whenever they want.  I want to think that this is the happiest month but when I think of the upcoming trinal exams I forget all my reasons to be happy.  I have six subjects and I do not know how to divide my time between studies and work.  Sometimes I only sleep for four or five hours.  I do not know if it is still healthy but this is the best thing to do for the moment.  It was a good thing that I do not have a class in my last period in tonight’s class so I was able to go home early.  I got time to read my assigned cases and of course update my blog. 

By the way my friend is talking about Inaul Fashion show next week.  I will just share some pictures here for you to have an idea what it is all about.   Good night guys.   

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Semester Break Here I Come

Hurray!  After two grueling weeks of not being able to sleep, now I can say that I can finally relax my tired mind and body.  I had my last exam earlier in Political Law.  It feels like I am in heaven right now.  Although the feeling is not absolute happiness as I still have to pass 30 digested cases in Criminal Law on Tuesday and 4 digested cases in Statutory Construction; deadline will be on Saturday.   The last requirement was given to us only yesterday.  Maybe it was just an afterthought of the professor.  And I am laboring on it right now but since my hand is aching, I had to stop writing for a while because you know guys; I have to do it handwritten on a long coupon bond. 
  

I don’t like writing in a coupon bond as it has no lines.  My words will get as high as the peak of Mt. Apo without the lines.  I wished that she let us write it on yellow pad.  I am more comfortable with it.  Well, anyway I am not the boss so I have to follow the instruction.

I am thinking of a worry-free semester break.  I have plans of going to General Santos next weekend to buy books for the second semester.  I have to read in advance to prepare myself for the battle as my professor in Criminal Law 2 would be no less than the Dean himself.  I know of his reputation.  I have heard stories like when one of his students was not able to answer during a recitation he told the student to look outside the window.  Their conversation more or less went like this:

Professor:  Look outside the window, what do you see?

Student:   Nothing sir because it is very dark outside.

Professor:  That is your future in the college of law!

See, how embarrassing that might be on the student.   If I am that student, I would have killed myself in front of him due to humiliation hehehe... I don’t know if it really happened but a lot of students say the same thing.  So I think this not just an urban legend, it really happened in the past.  I would need more than just luck next semester.  I need your prayers.

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Exam Week

Just done with my Criminal Law exam for midterm. The MCQs are quite harder than essay. This will be the format of the bar exam next year. One of my professors said that the bar will be 60% MCQs and 40% essay. Wow, this is kind of hard. You cannot just choose as all of the choices are plausible enough to believe as the right answer. The MCQs gave me a headache actually. 

It’s a good thing I don’t have an exam tomorrow. I have a lot of time to do my papers on Legal Research and Foundation of Laws subjects. As of the moment, I try to relax and my idea of relaxing is playing a Frontier Ville on Facebook. This is the only game I play since June. This is some sort of deviation to entertain myself and forget for a while the rigors of studying and working. I am sort of living a double life being an employee by day and a student at night. And oh this reminds me, I have to get copies of the latest COMELEC Resolutions for our exclusion cases set on September 15, 2010 after the Ramadan. I also have to look for some books that I would need in some of my subjects. I am getting impatient too. My sister has not yet bought the book that I would use in my political law. Actually, I already have one but unfortunately, I feel like the author is from another planet that I do not get what he says. I want to have a book of an author that I am most comfortable with and that’s Rolando Suarez. 

I guess I have to stop now. I am getting sleepy and I am running out of things to say today. Good night guys.

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Baptism of Fire

It was the term used by my Legal Research professor the other week referring to the trinal exams that is supposed to start tonight.  My scheduled exam for tonight is on Constitutional Law.  However, due to some confusion with the schedule, we ended up postponing my first subject until next week. 

Earlier, I thought I was late because I stayed a little while in the office listening to President Aquino as he delivered his first State of the Nation Address.  After he finished delivering his speech, I hurriedly went to the university.  When I got there, I found out that there were just a few of us inside the room.  So, I took the liberty to go over my notes for the last time hoping to get a little more information that will come out in the exam.  I don’t know how minutes had passed before I heard the bell rung signaling the beginning of the examination.  I nervously waited on my seat waiting for my professor like I am waiting for the end to come.     The door opened and revealed my professor in Criminal Law!  I feel like my doom just came.  I was thinking, was I wrong to think that my schedule for today is Constitutional Law?  Oh no, how am I going to answer the questions when I have not reviewed everything yet in my Criminal Law?  My stomach tightened and I felt hungry all of a sudden I wanted to eat 5 plates of rice.  I was only relieved when I found out about the confusion. My professor in Criminal Law got confused with the schedule.  She thought our schedule is today instead of Wednesday.  Maybe the same thing happened to my other professor.  Whatever it is, the important thing is we do not have a scheduled exam today as it was postponed next week.  

So my classmate and I went home to begin reviewing for our next subject.  Thanks God, I still have ample of time to do my requirement in Legal Research.

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Orientation Day

I thought classes would start yesterday but when I arrived at the room assigned to us, the lights were off and students like me were also waiting outside only to find out that we have no class again as the faculty of the college of law held a meeting.  After waiting for an hour and a half, I went home with a new friend I met there. 

This afternoon, I saw one of the faculty members who happen to be one of the lawyers who regularly appear in our courtroom.  He told me that there would be an orientation this afternoon and I have to attend.  During the orientation, we were introduced to the faculty of the college of law.  Some of them I am familiar with because from time to time they are appearing in our court.  We were informed about the dress code and how we should behave as law students.  We were informed about the dress code.  We were told that being admitted to the college of law is not a right but rather a privilege.  It being a privilege, we ought to take advantage of it and explore every avenue of learning to advance ourselves.  We were further told that we should adapt a virtue of humility being law students.  What I can’t forget was the line of one of the lawyers who gave the closing remarks.  Law students are expected to become lawyer and not just law graduate.  And that if we study law for the sake of promotion we are in the wrong place.  Very well said.  I liked it. 

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I'm Officially Enrolled

Finally after days of waiting, this morning I got hold of the list of my schedule of classes.  Officially, I am enrolled as a freshman in the College of Law of Notre Dame University.  That makes me a working student.  It makes me feel like I am living a double life hehehe.  I work during the day and I study at night.  I have class from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday.  On Saturday I have two classes in the morning and one in the afternoon.  I feel a little sad coz I cannot visit my parents anymore on weekends except of course if there would still be long weekends like what we have now.  We already have a new president now I doubt if he advocates holiday economics.

Classes will start on Tuesday (since Monday is holiday) but I don’t know where Room 214 is.  Well, that would be my classroom for the whole semester.  Next thing to think of are books.  I have apprehensions about my going back to school.  It was ten years ago since I graduated and everything feels like new to me again.  Well, I have to undergo another period of adjustment.  I just hope that I can do it so as not to disappoint my boss.

Whether I like it or not, sleepless nights and piles of books here I am being a student again after ten years.  I hope I have the super power to endure this.

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Late Posting

I was supposed to post this entry on Friday, but due to a minor accident that I encountered, it remained a scribble on a piece of paper.  But since I find time to visit my blog tonight, here it is.

Beginning of classes is only seven days away.  I can already see endless pages of books that I am going to read and sleepless nights that I have to endure when the classes start on June 14, 2010.  Law school here I come.  Official enrollment will be on June 7, 2010 but last Wednesday, I started processing my documents and complying with the requirements for enrollment.  I am grateful that I am already halfway through my enrollment.  I had taken off 50% from my burden of this whole enrollment process.  When I went to the registrar's office, the personnel assigned for the college of law told me to go back on Monday as it is the official day of enrollment so that I could get my class schedule.

This enrollment is not a joke.  It took me half day yesterday to continue processing my enrollment.  My feet hurt from walking to and fro.  I was wearing a sandal with three inches heels so naturally my feet complained.  To console myself, I thought of it as having an exercise that I needed.  Sadly, I was not able to fulfill my New Year's resolution of getting healthy.  I was not able to take exercising seriously, so I think this is the right way to burn calories.  Well, I really have to think of it this way or I will be crabby and frowning the whole afternoon.

Wish me luck guys with this new adventure that I am going to take.

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