Memoir of an Heiress

Friday, July 18, 2008
12:01 AM

Hell Week.

It's prelim examination week and although I am not a student anymore I can still say that every exam week will definitely be a hell week. Maaaan, having to experience a roller coaster attitude of students makes me want to go on a vacation and never come back again, hahaha.

I had conducted my first examination on Wednesday and as of now the number of students that received a passing grade can still be counted using my fingers, I am not happy and satisfied by the results but what can I do I even gave them an idea on where I would be getting the questions for their exam. At first I was really feeling down because I felt that I was not good enough but after 2 exams and after seeking advice from the pro, I care less anymore. It's their fault that they don't even bother reading the hand-outs that I gave them to the fact that I even told them that all the answers will be taken from the same hand-outs that they have but still only few people bother to read it and review it.

But it's still not the worse experience that I had.

What can be more worse in having a students with an attitude problem, I encountered it but never bother anymore. I need to be more patience and not get into fight with the students. I don't know. All I can say is that the students today are way different from when I was a student.

Anyway, as far as the students are having a hard time on reviewing for their exam. I, as an instructor, is also having a hard time checking their answers and encoding their grades.

Oh well, will try to update regularly and with a little sense. Next time, next time.

Sunday, July 13, 2008
5:33 PM

Photos and more photos

My life is so boring right now and that's the reason why I can't update on this blog because I will definitely bore all of you with my endless rants and whines. I'll update you with some photos instead to let you all know that I still do exist, hahaha.

Got my Police clearance already

I always do wear my glasses when I'm at work

Up close and personal with my messy table

Look at my table? Can you see something unusual? I know you see it.

Simplicity rules

I'm going crazy now.

Hope I did let you know how boring and yet crazy my life is. Remember, I'm still alive and kicking, hahaha.

Will update this blog with a decent entry soon.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
11:52 PM

Toxic

I'll be experiencing a very long week, days and even months of toxicity at work. Don't think that I am complaining because I am totally not and besides its my fault on why my paper works are all piled up. I am totally bumming around thinking that I'll have all the time in the world to check and record all of them. I just wish that I'll be able to finish all of them over the weekend or before the day that we will pass it.

Next week, July 16, is the start of our preliminary examination and because of that all faculty members are required to submit the exam questionnaire on Monday until 5pm only but I asked the OIC if I can submit some of my questionnaires on Tuesday and thank God he said yes. I guess I'll be busy for the whole week until the next week but after that I'm all good again, hahaha.

I hate myself for not being responsible enough to finish whatever things I should be doing. I don't know what I am thinking when I choose to bum around instead of doing important things such as recording the grades and attendance of my students. Now I am piled up with lots of works, urgh! Right at this very moment, I promise that I'll finish everything over the weekend or maybe before weekend.

By the way, I am pretty much having a problem with one of my subjects because both sections can't understand the lesson regarding flowchart and I've been giving them identical examples. I decided that I'm not going to follow the course syllabus anymore because according to the course syllabus, I should be discussing the conditional operators and looping but because I can feel and see that my students don't understand the basic flow charting I am going to discuss it further and let them understand it more. If they don't understand flow charting then there is no way they are going to understand programming which will use Java as a programming language. In fairness to the both sections, they did understand all the previous lesson except for the flow chart.

Another thing that I want to share is that I am going to be on of the 3 coaches on the Tagisan nang Talino event on our school and my category would be on the INTO Programming. As the name implies, INTO Programming is about creating a program using either Java or C programming language.

So there, my life's a little boring lately but I am having fun. Yes! I am. I also can't believe myself that I am enjoying my first ever work. Yea, will update as often as I can.

Miss you all.

Saturday, July 5, 2008
12:50 AM

Busy Bee.

Hey everyone! How are you all doing? I hope you did have a very great week. As for me my week is very tiring although I must admit that I did have fun. I am really in the mood to blog today but because of the week long hiatus I am not sure where to start but I do assure that I have lots of stories to share to you all. I guess I'll blog in taglish to express my feelings more realistic.

Have you experience yung super prepared ka na sa lesson mo and all those jazz when suddenly out of the blue bigla na lang nawalan nang laman yung utak mo na tipong kung ano-ano na lang yung nasasabi mo then after a while you'll suddenly realized that you just did embarrassed yourself in front of the whole class? Well I actually did experience it and I (or shall I say we) call it the basag moments and when I say basag I do really meant it. Nakakahiya lang talaga pero buti na lang mga fast learner yung mga students ko at na-gets naman nila agad noong nag-explain ako ulit this time yung tama na ang na-explain ko kasi nasa ulirat na ako. Besides it was already late at night since that subject started at 6pm until 9pm, I just I was dead tired during that day.

Another thing that I want to share is my feelings towards one of the section that I am handling. I am pretty much annoyed by the way that they are acting and their attitude are just so different when I was a 1st year college students. I never showed them na mataray ako or terror ako, nakikipag-lokohan pa nga ako sa kanila kaya lang eto talagang section na to umaabuso naman. Hindi nila alam kung kelan dapat huminto sa pagbiro buti pa yung ibang section alam nila. Another thing that I hate about them is their very loud voices which really creates a loud noise which is not only distracting me but also the other class adjacent to the classroom that I am using. Biruin mo ang harang lang naman noong isang room dun sa room kung nasaan kami is a plastic folding divider syempre sobrang rinig yun diba. Buti naman at kahit paano nakikinig na din yung iba sa kanila natauhan siguro, ikaw ba naman na makarinig nang sermon nang one and a half hour ewan ko na lang kung hindi pa tatagos sa utak mo yung sinasabi sayo e. But it wasn't me you talked to them, it's one of my colleagues na lagi ko nasasabihan about this section.

Grabe! Ang hectic nang schedule ko ngayon paano naghahabol ako nang lessons dahil malapit na mag-exam. Hindi naman dahil sa mabagal ako meron kasing time na may mga events tapos tumatama sa subject na tinuturuan ko kaya nala-late ako sa pagturo. Hanggang ngayon hindi pa ako tapos mag-input nang mga grades for the quizzes and stuffs lalo na yung ibang attendance, hindi ko pa nagagawa.

I was planning to finish it all today but I have a seminar to attend at 1pm until 5pm, maybe I'll finish it all up on Sunday.

I wished I did update you on what's going on with me lately kahit na halos wala pa sa kalahati yung na-share ko sa inyo ngayon. Promised to update as much as I can and o not abandon this blog ever again.

PS.
Kapag ba meron kang mga students na hindi pumasa sa quiz pero meron naman mga nakapasa does it shows that you are not a great instructor or not? Wala naman. Kasi nagsisimula na yung pagbaba nang self-esteem ko kasi feeling ko hindi ako magaling na instructor kasi merong mga bumabagsak sa mga quizzes ko although lahat naman yun nasa notes din naman nila. Nakaka-frustrate ha.