It's been a week from
Hogwart's Day aka Graduation and it feels great and reminiscing! Yes, my 4 years in college has come to an end. Though in Nursing, we had 2 graduation days last week: Clinical Grad and University Grad.
The clinical grad (March 25) is a commencement ceremony after completing a thousand hours of RLE duties since we started during 2nd year college.Oh I remember the moment when we just had our capping ceremony last 2011...
Then last 2013, I became an usherette on the said event..
Me and Kristine,doing selfies during the 2013 clinical grad (lol)."i wonder how will it be by the time our batch reaches that point?"
And yet,here we are!Wearing gala uniforms and the Paulinian nurse's cap.
Me with my crazy crew,clinical graduation style!Haha ;D
It has been a great accomplishment after moments of travel-duties,graveyard shifts,community immersion and intensive practicum.I also received a certificate for being part of the BSN cheering squad---THAT is what i can never ever forget!
"we run the world like n-u-r-s-i-n-g NURSING!♥
March 26.The day after that was the University Grad.We stayed at the school gym for 8 hours from Baccalaureate Mass to the Commencement Exercises--having said that the heat was immense!But anyway,the event was well worth it.Thank God I have made it this far. :')
Now this is my crazy crew,university graduation style!! :))
Do check out my facebook and instagram for more pics with my other college friends.Indeed, my college alma mater gave me a new life as I used to say before. I remember how excited I was when I first entered there: Chemistry was our first class on that very first day and I even got lost in looking for the classroom(the Chem. lab).Haha! That was also the moment when I met the new people--my blockmates.I actually gotten to know some of them from Facebook already especially the ones I met during the orientation.Haha.And that's where cliques started to form in class.The first clique that I have gotten into were avid in going to Gateway or Mcdonald's (courtesy of the school's Mcdo Shuttle Service). At some point,
I thought I was going to eat chicken fillets forever!.LOL. Then as time passed by, I moved on to another clique. It was called 'IZUNIA' which was derived from the second letter of our names :)We used to be a fun group, but it fell apart as some of us became closer to another clique and one shifted from another course. However, I stayed in touch with the one who shifted because she was my closest friend on our group. Soon enough, I'm on a different clique again together with my other closest friend from "IZUNIA".So yeah, I really tend to hang-out with different groups in class rather then settling myself to a permanent group of friends. Because with a permanent group, it has always been a 'one for all-all for one' decision and I do not like it that way.Hence, I always have different partners when it comes to dyad activities...until me and my other closest friend surprisingly jives up with my point of view(and vice-versa).Okay,too much about
friend stuffssss :p
It was not only my blockmates who formed my life way back then. Happily, I get to join the cheering squad for the College Freshman Society (CFS)and there, I also get to meet new people from different courses. I never thought that I'd still be dancing throughout my college life! On my 2nd year, I get to join the BSN cheerdance squad aka
The Real Life Champions. This is where I met my older fellow schoolmates from Nursing. I knew I was a dope at first but thanks to them, they have taught me to do stunts and improved my dancing skills.
I cannot believe that I learned how to do cartwheels,backrolls and other skills.Those after-duty practices had certainly build up my confidence and how to balance my time amidst the academics.
At first, I was thrilled to learn my major subjects from the course.I find it very interesting to learn more about the human body from Anatomy to maternal and child until...
shit happened on Medical-Surgical.It was supposed to be exciting to learn further about body diseases; but with an unattractive approach of teaching(Say,sharing life experiences instead of referring to the book)?I don't think a single concept could be retained then!It is hard doing self-study on vague terms. Maybe that's why I cannot even manage to finish one chapter of the book!Thus, I started to lack interest on the subject.Then eventually, I hated it when we needed to apply it at the OR---then I hate it even more(or perhaps,the MOST) when we studied about
Acute Biologic Crisis and had an exam on it.ughh.I started to despise my course since then like the pressure is on from our cut-off grade and the overflowing requirements.I had no choice of shifting since my full hatred began between my 3rd and 4th year.Though on the other hand, I adore my minor subjects instead.And yes, I enjoyed my minor subjects very much especially the social subjects :D Thank you to the CASE faculty for their kindness and support. They are the best professors, I should say.Haha! Aside from the subjects,I would also not forget our
#TEAMFLOATING days on our thesis! We started from 9 balls and ended with 9 balls. Ergo, that's consistency marks the spot! ;p
So my college life has been filled with love-hate situations that lead to new point of views.At the end, I had the craziest crew friends.I have gone to places I have never been and perhaps, I did things that I never thought I could. The duty exposures has fed up all my curiosities on being a nurse.My college bucketlist would have had a lot of check marks if I had made one from the start!And that is something to be proud of.
A Paulinian created by the image and likeness of God. :') Although, this ain't the end for my nursing journey yet! There is still, the
deadly board exam.
So yeah, I might remain idle here again on the coming days. But I'll try to make more new entries soon!
'til then!!
CONGRATS TO US ALL, BATCH 2014!!!!
