My Bored College Life

Happy New Year. It means another year to waste. When I graduated high school, I was prepared about the hassles of college life. All those guys bringing in big bunch of books who sits with you in a public transit with those tired expressions from the night's studying battles. I was prepared for that or at least, my alma mater did a good job preparing me so. But my parents were so reluctant of me going to the college of my choice--- University of San Carlos to take up a computer course, Information Technology. Well, my fourth year computer teacher exposed us to HTML, Java programming so dynamically that it enticed me to this in-demand course most geeks are taking. After heated discussions with my dad that universities are a good environment for learning and that training they give is way too cool to the computer school he has been planning to throw my ass in. But my other motive is because most of my friends are gonna have a heck of fun in there. My mom was on my side. Days passed on my eerie summer days when my parents finally decide to enroll me. But to no surprise, my mom took me to AMA Computer College somewhere in Jones, Cebu. A small time franchise of a big university in Manila. When I started last June 2007, no one (I repeat) no one there was familiar to me. Not even childhood classmates or acquaintances of some sort. I spent the whole week, eating lunch alone, finding some good place to stay for long hour breaks. I was in total emotional distress and cursed my father every minute of it. Well, the school is absolutely small but enough to house some 200 enrollees. A three-floor old building they've been renting with a 3 computer labs (2 of which encase old computers) and a healthy group of young faculty which is contrast to the old cranky professors I've dreamt to be with. But they're intelligent just the same though, except for the broken English. It is actually my pet peeve in listening to people mispronounce or misuse words. What's nice about the school is the flexibility of the schedule (yeah, right). At enrollment, we plot our schedules we seem reasonable but in the end the teachers move them, and move them and move them. To note, in my first semester, I didn't have classes on Thursday. Speaking of flexibility, believe or not, we are so in dire hunger of classes since our teachers doesn't go in so often for all reasons even as simple as their headache! At first, we felt happiness at having no classes most of the time, but too much happiness almost got us close to transferring. One of the reasons that made us stay is the initiative of our School Director to open financial assistance scholarships to newbies. For economy's sake, almost all of us applied for one and havev our parents save some Php 10, 000.00 ($244.00 as of this post). But I didn't have any share of that because my dad, as always doesn't care to recognize his son's effort. Did I mention he forgot my birthday last year? I'm gonna post how I celebrated my birthday. But as they say, when you're immersed to something for so long you'll learn to love it. And I did love the school, I have a group of friends who I spend my time with, go malling, or just plain fooling around. We call ourselves---AMA Angels. I'm gonna post why it's called like that. But anyways, the school's got this online-learning subjects were we get to watch AMA channel in school which airs our teachers on live TV broadcast for synchronization in all parts of the country. It also has another option of logging into your student account to access notes and answer online quizzes anywhere. And our school have this Wi-Fi internet connection for students who bring laptops with them. I need one! But in the meantime I could suffice my hunger using our internet labs, it's free. For more info, visit our school's official website. Totally, I call this bored college life of mine, in its happy ending so far.