What I Have to Say About My Subjects This Semester

I am torn by how will I budget my time this semester. I have four BA subjects and a major Economics subject. Some of my teachers are quite hard to understand like my professor in Finance 2. All we know is that he had three MA's and two PHD's. So he's either strict and will expect a lot from us or he's not. Last Thursday during our supposed to be first discussion, he was giving us the lecture on how to derive the formula for the future and present value of amount (or so I thought). That discussion seemed to have summed up everything in Chapter four of our book. The class dismissed 45 minutes earlier. I couldn't tell if I was happy for the class ended earlier than I have thought or confused because honestly, I have not understood a thing or two about what he was blabbering about. When we asked him why? He said and I quote, "Well, there aren't anything left to say." Just like that. I looked around watching the expression on the face of my classmates and concluded that they weren't different as mine's. Maybe they're thinking of studying by themselves when they got home or during the weekend. The thought of transferring to other section has occurred to me but what the heck? I'm not going to strain myself with the whole change-mat process all over again. I'm just gonna have to stick with it like what most of my classmates in that subjects are probably going to do.

While I find myself all confused and terrified in my Finance subject, I have my fondness in my other subjects. I just really wished that I would feel the same as the semester comes to an end. There's one thing that I find very troubling and I hate to say this but very irritating as well. The thing is one of my classmates (Let's call her Bea) in my Marketing subjects has not been a very good student before. Sh seemed to lack focus and well, just plain lazy. However, she keeps saying that this time around, she'll do her best. She got a 5.0 grade in our Mathematical Economics last semester and is apparently on probation. If she does not get a grade past the required grade in Econ, she'll be dismissed from the college. This is very sad because in just a year, we will be graduating. So, back to my problem, I am grouped with her and with a couple of some students from Econ. The problem is one of my groupmates ( Again, let's call her Marie) wanted to change places with someone from another group and I am betting it was because Bea. It so happened that Marie here has had the chance of being grouped with Bea in our BA 101 subject and the group had not performed well because of her. I thought it was okay if she wanted to switch with someone else but she wouldn't tell us who she's switching places with and I am betting again that she hasn't found one. It just puts me off a little because it seemed clear to us or at least to me that she doesn't want to be grouped with us which I find a little too impolite and a little bitchy. I am not really angry per se. I just don't understand why some people would have to be like that just to avoid irresponsible people. Or maybe I should understand, shouldn't I? I don't know what to think. But one thing I now for sure is that it's not the very best thing to do when dealing with a groupmate that is not doing her part. I am not backing out and I am glad that my other groupmate are sticking with me. Well, good luck with her.

So far, I am liking my Managerial Accounting and Econometrics subjects. Ma'am Hui seemed very nice and she like to compliment her students which I find very motivational. In fact, I had a really crazy but funny thought last Friday. We were discussing about the importance of financial statements and when we were asked what the cost to equity is which may result to an overstatement in the net income if not considered, I knew I said that it is the opportunity cost but I said so soft that it did not reach my teachers ear but I am sure that it was not too soft not to be heard by my classmate (Let's call him Laurie- accounting geek) who spoke of the answer but only louder. I had the very funny thought that maybe, just maybe he had copied my answer (you know just by impulse like the times when we tend to copy what we hear from someone else just because we are pressured or when we copy what out teacher say just to prove that we actually know and understand what he's talking about when the truth is we don't). Anyway, I am not saying that he actually copied my answer maybe I was mistaken and he actually knew the answer only that he was able to say it aloud. Whatever it is, it has really made my day. :D :D

Anyways, I have stop writing for the time being for I must sleep now.. Ta ta!!

Friday the 13th of November

Today, after my classes, I went to the UP cashier so I could pay for my dorm fees. Hoping that the line was not long, I hurried to the first jeep that came in to view. When I arrived at PNB, the line was unbelievably long and the ATM machines wont dispose of money. I decided to go back to the dormitory and spend my wee hours reading "The Lovely Bones". After leafing a couple of pages, I met with Penny and Niezl for we are going to visit the bazaar and check out some of the books that are for sale. I was able to buy "The Lakeside Cottage" bu Susan Wiggs and "The Plains of Passage" by Jean Auel. Mike (who was my classmate in Econ 106 last semester and Econ 131 now, by the way) asked me if I even know these authors. I said I didn't but I was hoping that they're of good reading. I remembered last June when I bought a thick novel entitled, " The Rebels of Ireland" which I haven't even started reading yet. I wondered whenever I will have the time to read all of my new books nonstop.

At 20 minutes past 9, we decided to do back. There was an activity in out dormitory which we didn't want to be involved with that was we thought of the most productive escape (going to the bazaar). The TV area where the even was being held was filled with my fellow dorm-mates rather eating and throwing darts to hit the balloons. They were actually having fun. I say a variety of foods. I ate a couple of sweets, took some fruits and immediately walked out. I couldn't take the crowd. I am not such a social person. I enjoy some having fun with some of my friends and a couple of acquaintances but a room filled with people I haven't even exchanged hi's and hello's with is just a little superficial for me. So, now I am here, after I copied the file for my Econ 131 which I borrowed from Mike, installing The Sims n times now, and listening to my roommates who have just gotten here blabber about the movie "2012" that they watched this afternoon.. I couldn't care less. I am just so swamped with my own thoughts that I am turning unfavorably introvert at the moment...