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A fresh grad who finds herself waking up after lunch (GMT+8, mind you). She is into videogames, anime & manga , certain book genres, a bit of music, and dogs. An introvert, she is generally slow in warming up unless she sees that a person has at least a common interest. She knows too little of HTML so she had to download this pre-made layout.
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enero 12, 2005
I never thought that the 1st week of classes could be so busy! Pramis!^_^ It's the start of the 3rd term over here and I submitted 2 assignments in 1 subject, read 4 chapters total for 2 subjects and had a short quiz awhile ago. I wonder if there are those who'll say "I had worse in my 1st week!". It isn't that bad but when you're still hungover from Christmas break, you'd go "What, quiz kaagad?!" on something you've just read and hasn't discussed yet in class. I know that's how some teachers chack if you've been reading.For this term, I'm taking up 5 majors and 1 floating. My major subjects are: Experimental Psychology (Expsych), Experimental Psychology - laboratory (Expsyla), Methods of Research 1 (Metres1), Cognitive Psychology (Cogpsyc) and Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Sikopil). My only floating subject is Literature 2 (Litera2), which tackles world literature as opposed to Litera1 (Filipino literature). Given the majors I'm taking now, I'm guessing that there's less memorization involved compared to last term. If you're taking up Developmental Psychology (Devpsyc) and Theories of Personality (Theoper), you should recall the different theories that goes under each subject and they're A LOT! Thank goodness that I haven't taken up Biological Psychology given the teacher who's teaching last term and this term because I'd be memorizing brain parts and their functions. The brain as an organ isn't exactly what I'm interested at in Psychology. Add a Statistics class with its formulas last term and I'm pretty busy with those last trimester.
However, I'm also guessing that we'd be much busier than last term. With names that have the words "Experiment" or "Research" in it, it shouldn't be surprising if we do a lot of activities that involve both. Last week, my Metres1 prof sent us out of the classroom to perform a short experiment. We were asked to smile at 2 strangers, 1 male and 1 female, in separate occassions and see if they smile back. Being the shy and not-so cheerful girl that I am, it wasn't easy for me to do that. We should be away from each other when doing it. Nakakaconcious lalo na kung guy ang ngingitiin ko. Try as I may, I know it's a fake smile that appeared on my lips. Last Monday was a bit easier. We were sent out again but this time, to interview strangers. Dapat hiwalay kami nanaman. The questions were "IF you smile at a (male/female) stranger, do you think that person would smile back at you?" and "WHEN you smile at a (male/female) stranger, do you think that person would smile back at you?". Note that the 2 questions are actually different. I asked 1 guy using the IF question twice, 1 for male and the other female. I also asked the same question to 1 girl in the same way. I asked the WHEN question to 1 guy and 1 girl in the same manner I delivered the IF question. If experimentation and using other methods of research are to be done by groups often, I hope there's no social loafing involved so help me God. Social loafing BTW is when people slack off in group activites because they believe that someone's doing the job anyway.
Unlike last term where I have at least a couple of blockmates in a major, this term I barely had any blockmates in the same section with the exception of Sikopil. Thank goodness that I have my kabarkada Tina in 3 out of the 5 majors I'm taking. It was originally 4 but Tina decided to drop Sikopil because she was afraid of the prof. Me? I survived being under that prof in Devpsyc so I guess I can do it again. Besides, I don't know where to adjust. The reason why he's my prof because the other section for Sikopil taught by another prof was already closed when Tina, my blockmates and I enrolled. So ngayon, sumasama ako sa mga kasama ni Tina na Psych majors, some of them from the batch right ahead of us na nagshift to Psych. It's weird but right now, I feel a bit more comfortable sa mga kasama ni Tina na Psych majors din (kasi kaklase ko rin sila sa halos lahat ng sections na kinuha ko) kesa sa blockmates ko. Hindi na ako maka-relate sa blockmates ko. It also happens that I share the same 1st name with one of my classmates this term. Buti na lang at may nickname siya so yun ang tawag namin sa kanya. Wala akong nickname per se.
Yung teacher ko sa Litera2 reminds me of a couple of my lit teachers back in High School - young, bubbly, hindi boring (yung subject matter ang boring), etc. To complete the "back in High School" feel, kaklase ko rin ang 2-3 sa batchmates ko nung High School. Dalawa sa kanila hindi ako comfortable up to now. So... hanggang dito lang muna. Sorry kung bitin kaso malapit na rin magklase.
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