Boo-frickity-hoo

My first day of college was….weird.

My biggest mistake was waking up at 7 a.m. for my 7:30 class. I assumed that I would get everything ready by 7:15, but being the slowpoke that I am in the morning, I finally left the dorm at around 7:20. I made my way across Katipunan Ave. to Gate 3 and just as I was about to enter, a woman with a microphone and a cameraman stopped me.

“Umm, excuse me, could we have a few moments of your time?”

Apparently, they wanted to ask me about stuff like what do I think about the traffic situation of Katipunan and if I approve of random drug testing among students. And do you know how I started off the interview? “It’s my first day of college, and I’m very nervous.”

Watch out for me in the news. I don’t know what channel or time though; I stupidly forgot to ask.

So I went on my merry way to my English class at Berchman’s Hall. And then…the ultimate college freshman’s nightmare happened. I got lost.

Sure, finding Berchman’s Hall was easy. It said in my schedule that my English class is supposed to be at B-306. But when I took a peek through the back door of the room, I saw a bunch of unfamiliar faces. So I went all the way down to B-206, thinking that I might have read the schedule all wrong. Even more unfamiliar faces! I made a mad dash to the restrooms, SMSed SOS messages to my English blockmates, and came thisclose to panicking. When I got no reply a few minutes later, I decided to risk looking like a stupid moron lost in the wrong class. I went back up to B-306 and apparently, I did go to the right room. A couple of people from another block joined our English class and sat at the back, which explained the presence of the unfamiliar faces. I was late, but our professor is this really nice effeminate guy with cool glasses and he said he’d forgive me for now because this is our first day.

Our next class was Introduction to Fiction. I thought that this would be my favorite class because what would be better than getting graded for reading and talking about books? But now I have mixed feelings about it. Our professor has the most annoying voice in the world. She reminds me of a lot of my teachers back in high school, who sound like they’re trying way too hard to speak in English. To top it off, she actually assigned us homework on our first day of college. We have to write a bibliography of five reference books about fiction. Tell me–is that fair?!? NO! Especially because the stupid Ateneo library is being renovated at this most convenient time. I think the admin scheduled this renovation on the first few months of school purposely, just to torture us freshmen. Our prof said we could do our research at the UP library, so I made a mental note to do that after I get through all my classes.

I might have made a mistake when I thought that Environmental Science would be easy. Apparently, if you get a class standing of B, you get exempted from the final exam. So I guess that means our professor is rather fond of giving out Cs. Afterwards, I had Filipino class with my block and we took this really hellish diagnostic test that is bound to send me spiralling down to the lowest Filipino class. Looks like I’m gonna have to take up summer classes this year. After Filipino, I told Charlie I needed to go to UP to do some research, and since she needed to find this certain book for Biology, we took a jeepney to UP. My first jeepney ride in ages. We got dropped off at the entrance to the UP campus and walked allllll the way to the UP main library, only to find out that we couldn’t get in because we aren’t UP students. >:O We tried to get Charlie’s best friend Laureen to get us in the main library and the library at the College of Education, but she didn’t have her ID yet so we couldn’t get it. Bah. I suppose I could try to browse through the library books at school tomorrow. If that can even be done. Anyway, we ended up hanging out at Laureen’s boarding house and eating a lot of food at the co-op. You know, I am so glad I don’t study at UP. The food there is so good, I’d be overweight in a week!

Ooh, and I ran into Jill while I was getting my block pictures! I just had this feeling that I would see someone from LJ at school today. Hehehe.

Overall, my first day of school wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Thank God my first class tomorrow is at 11:30. I’m dying to sleep in!