Lost

For the past few weeks, the Psychology majors failed to keep track of what's going on with the world of English 2. It is for the reason that our major course required too much of our time. This is especially true for our Educational Tour, which is a mjor requirement for us to uplift our grades. For the term paper writing, I felt so anxious of starting it. I haven't been able to Consult Teacher Lynnie for our outline. The situation also got offhand because we weren't able to meet last week because of the seminar that our teacher has attended to. All of my classmates was worried about not having to finish our term paper and the probability of not being able to submit it on time also lies. Last meeting, I have scannned through variuos reference materials and was able to come-up with an idea. It seemed that at that moment, I was enlightened.

We are now facing various kinds of paper works, especially for our major courses. It is really essential to utilize the writing techniques that English 2 has to offer. This course enabled students who will be taking up English 8: Technical Writing to have a background of the things that should be done.

I am looking forward for positive outcome on my term paper. For I know that finishing this will be one of the major achievements for this semester.

Our Last Meeting

For our term paper, we have discussed about Thesis Statements. As far as I know, it is like a formulating a hypothesis. The atmosphere in our classroom has been evolve into a very good place of learning. The brainstorming is really a good idea. We have been able to interact with our other classmates, as well as we have shared what we have in each of our thoughts.
About the APA format for the bibliography, I have just learned recently that it stands for the Psychological Association of the Philippines. The format is such a convenient tool for cititng the different references that we will be using for our paper.
We will be in for our outlining tomorrow and we are looking forward for a good outcome for our group. Last time I was not able to join them because the Psychology Majors were not around due to our scheduled class picture-taking.
I think making an outline will be a task that really requires critical thinking and I do hope we will be able to live-up with that.

Take Your Time

A lesson regarding life occurred to me like a light. It told me about few things that I must make for my own day and as well as sharing this thought to others. I can still clearly remember the first time I encountered this. I have leaped through the pages of the book a Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren and it said there that “each day, we should live our lives as if it’s our last day on this earth”. The reason behind this is that people will set their minds to accomplish satisfactorily their plans for their living. Now, as we come to our last topic in Developmental Psychology which is Death and Bereavement, this thought has been acknowledged once again. Often, we just don’t realize that every moment of our life is a precious one that once spent; it will never go back to us again.

There are some things that I realized how all of us are getting ourselves too preoccupied with the idea of laziness. We are stunned by procrastination, and in fact, this would just generate failure for all of us. An old friend has told me the difference between Time and Money, because Money can still go back to your hands no matter how you spent it. There will always be ways of looking for Money, but Time, no matter what degree of effort you exert on it, there’s no way of receiving it again. That is why the cliché stating that “time is gold” hits us like a speeding bullet. We are not able to feel the pain at first but after a while, we’ll just realize that we are bleeding. We should know enough of what to do with all our priorities. When we think that we have still so much time, we should also think that only very little of it remains as we waste it.  At one end of the rope remorse lies and it just keeps us from blaming each of ourselves. Often we waste opportunities to let people know how much we would want to show our affection for them. We believe in the idea that everything last forever but no it doesn’t. All things under the sun perish at the right time.

Time is an essence of our lives. It goes with us in every second and with every wink of an eye. The meaning that you give to death will reflect the meaning that you give to your life. This was stated by our professor, Dr. Alma G. Maranda. This is definitely true; we should be able to make our priorities worth for all our sacrifices, so that at the end we can proudly say that “life is not a struggle to be solved but a gift to be enjoyed”.

           

Twist Of Reality

It came to me like a splash of a wave. This is another manifestation of change. It’s just like transferring from one classroom to another. Eventually, it did bring me an aura of adjustment. Learning is a task in human life that needs to be characterized by enjoyment and it should not mainly be characterized by pressure and induced themes of stereotype knowledge. It would always matter to me that I take pleasure in what I’m doing for school rather than resent for it. Blogging is a task that I haven’t done previously. This has enabled me to broaden my horizons of learning rather than limiting it at one hand. Doing this task seems like transferring to a virtual classroom where everybody is capable with interacting; it’s like letting loose of your whole reservoir of latent thoughts to the heeding world.

The schedule for our English 2 class illustrates boredom. The reason for this is the time; it starts at one-thirty to three o’clock in the afternoon, which only implies that people are commonly fond of sleeping and there is a great tendency that they’ll just eventually fall asleep amidst the discussion. This is also a problem that persists through most students. Our new professor, Ma’am Lynnie Ann Deocampo told us such thing. When she discussed about the term paper, it awakened me. This is one thing that made me interested in English 2. While most students have developed a fear for it at the same time I am getting excited about it. I could never deny the fact that it would require time, enough dedication and hard work from a student, as well as it needs capacity for it to be finished in due time. But looking at the brighter side, it would let us explore what we can do in times of pressure. It tests our ability to go beyond what we presently know of. To sum it all up, it just simply means challenge. A challenge that would let us know how resilient we can be, how much are we able to spend time just so we can surpass the impediments of this course and let us inherit the skills for our future major requirements. It also lets us view procrastination as a killer of time.

Although I have a partial view of how can this be done, I still can’t assure myself that it would be a smooth-sailing task for me. Yet it is my utmost desire to make this as a satisfying work for me, inorder that I can improve my ability to partake in my chosen field which is Psychology. I am looking forward towards presenting substantial data for my future final paper, and merely hope that it would be a successful one for me.