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                                        Treat Me As Your First Day

Thesis statement: My last year in FEU Alabang makes me feel a little sad, blessed and excited.

“Do not worry, your senior year is the easiest” my brother insisted. “You can skip as many classes as you want, it’s like the teachers don’t even care”, my bestfriend said. “It’s like your grades from senior year don’t even count”, my older cousin reminded me. Going into senior year, I had so many expectations of the perfect last year of high school, based on what I was told from previous seniors. Turns out, half of what I was told was not true. Based on my previous experiences, I can say that while senior year may be a time for making memories and having fun, it is also a time to stay focused, and prepare for future plans. The senior year of high school can be the most stressful, yet most important year in a student’s life. A few contributing factors to the stress of the senior year have to do with major life decisions. Choosing a career that a person can enjoy for their entire life is a huge responsibility.

I feel sad when I remember all is how my senior high school life started , first day of school. I felt excited and nervous. A brand new experience of my life having to leave my friends and teachers in middle school behind. I am excited in such a way that I will be able to experience another journey of my life. Nervous in the sense that I will be facing new classmates, new teachers and new friends. Nevertheless, the nervous I felt in the first day slowly gone and filled with happiness. I was able to gained new friends. Most of them are my schoolmate and some of them are transferees from other school. I really thought that my senior high school would be very boring ,but I was wrong.  I do not expect that I would be enjoying with my new friends and my classmates. I really treasure every single days with them , with their craziness in life. 

As the days passed by, I experienced lots of new things in my life. I was able to eat with my classmates and teacher if there’s a special month like teachers month. During our united nation, we are so busy . Putting makeup on our faces. Taking pictures. Also, that day is our performance day as a whole section. That day, will be performing our hip hop and traditional dance. I am quite nervous at that day. To be honest, I am not a good dancer. After we performed, I felt relieved.

This school year, I was able to joined road trip with my friends. I really enjoy and had fun with them. First in my life that I would be seeing myself hanging out with friends. Going some places that are strange to me. 

As the days passed by, we’ve planned to have a group study and group making of project. This school year really gives anxiety and emotional breakdown. Some of our subjects are stressing us. We bombarded with hours of homework every night and it interferes with our lives. We are tired of staying up late at night to finish our homework or a paper that is due the next day. 

All those struggles made me strong and this feeling of being blessed is all about the things I have learned, the experiences I’ve had, and the friends that I have met along the way. Through out life people go through so many hardships. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that comes out of the situation. One of the most exciting but yet scariest events would be graduation. For a lot of people, graduating from senior high school is a goal. It takes a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal. In the long run, it opens a lot of opportunities for people to succeed. While I am in school, there are definitely challenging times, but when I think of myself graduate, I get to look back on all the amazing people and experiences that I had at that school. I also feel blessed and proud to be the pioneer batch of FEU Alabang. It is a privelaged to graduate from a university.

The Far Eastern University-Alabang will always be a part of me. By it’s very nature, is an extreme broadening of my horizons. Being plunged into a world where a dozen or more people each taught me one aspect of what I need to know. Where I rub shoulders with people from different parts of the world, different backgrounds, different views on life. Where I spend significant amounts of time in a place I have never been before. This institustion expand my horizon as it see me the world differently, to meet people who aren’t like me. I learned something radically different from my usual learning. I grow stronger as a person, it helps me to pick something that scares me and do it.

I am also feel blessed to be a HUMSS student because to graduate in this strand, will not be easy as crossing the road, you have to set priorities to your studies. I am so happy that I chose this strand, as a grade 12 student, there are lots of activities that I have encountered, there’s times that I have to choose my health or my studies, at this point, when stress is too much and I cannot already carry the tasks, I tried to rest first. I do not surrender in these challenges.

Humanities and Social Sciences  help me to choose the career path I am going to enter in College. I feel excited every day I realize that I'm a senior. I know that probably sounds like a weird thing to say, but every day I have this enlightened moment where I say to myself "Whoa.” This is my last year of senior high school, this also means the end and also the start by another beginner. The same cycle as I first entered the FEU Alabang, but the idea of college and life after college becomes less of an intangible fantasy and more of a hard reality.

After all the hardwork and experienced of being a senior high school taught me to have a confidence because Confidence is a tricky business. I once heard the phrase “Fake it, until you make it”, and some like to relate the phrase to confidence. While this may work for a time, but real confidence comes from the inside. I feel excited to continue my education and gain confidence from a good foundational source. I belived that one of the sources of my confidence is my educational attainment, no one can take that away from me.

I am looking forward to a new school, new environment, new friends and professors, and new struggles to face.

Soon the innocent teenage hood will turn into harsh adolescence. It feels good to be in the last year but at the same time this thought scares me too. The ending of this will bring end to a lot of things. These days will never come back again and all the fun we had, Soon will be called as the unforgettable memories of school life, Which I will miss the most.

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