minor comprehensive exams were done and over with this afternoon.  that was to determine whether we’re ready to graduate or not.  it’s a test on all the general education subjects we took up since frosh college to present and how we could apply them to current situations.  if we get a grade lower than 50%, we don’t graduate.  i already had an a- for my thesis and i need to have an a- on this exams to qualify for a distinction.  the exam took place this afternoon and it was four hours long, from one to five in the afternoon.  in short, i had the most stressful four hours of my entire life… well, so far.

the pink paper was for philosophy, psychology, theology and english. we are to react to this problem and answer the five questions as a whole with no less than 1,000 words. the yellow one was science and math. inarguably, the deans know that we are liberal arts students and don’t deal with math well, so that other one was fairly easy. the green one was for filipino and history, no less than 30 sentences. the final one, the blue paper, is an integral question, asking us to summarize our entire four-year stay in the college with no less than 1,000 words. with all these requirements to be met in four hours, can you tell i am having the time of my life?!?!?! shoot me.

i was able to save a few bits from my pink paper.  and it says:

because we have been negligent and abusive of mother nature, she abuses us back. because we have been claiming and calling ourselves far more superior than others, the “weak” strikes back. because we have been so ignorant of the opportunities of growth and progress we have right in our faces, we jump at the one in a million chance we see only to have it turn against us.

as i ponder on these things, i am reminded of a movie entitled the american president. michael j fox, as the president’s secretary, urges michael douglas, the president, to address the issues (personal ones, i might add) posed upon him by the opposition and i quote: “the american people are waiting for you. they will crawl for you across the desert and when they see a mirage, they will drink the sand.” douglas had an amazing comeback. “people don’t drink the sand because they think it’s water. they drink the sand because they don’t know the difference.”

sigh.  i love that movie.

i hope we can get our papers back because i really liked what i wrote in that pink sheet.  when i was writing it, my hand was free flowing, like it had a life of its own and knows exactly what needs to be said.

i want my distinction.  damn i hope i get it.

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