thewanderlass asked: Hello po!:) I' m an incoming Freshmen @ UPM po. Same course as you din po. :) Can you give me tips kasi po I'm not that confident if I chose the right course. :( Thank you po!:)

Hi! :D Hmmm. It’s going to be hard to tell if you chose the right course or not because only you can tell that for yourself. However, may I know the reason why you chose it? Kasi ngayon pa lang, I’ll give you a disclaimer, medyo mahirap siya. BUT! That’s a big but, haha. Lahat naman ng course mahirap. AND. If you have the heart for people with disabilities and the drive to help them, then you chose the right course. Because I have learned in the 3 years that I have been here, that a speech pathologist can make such a great impact on so many lives. But it took me 3 years to figure that out. So don’t be disappointed it you feel like parang walang pinupuntahan lahat ng effort mo sa pag-aaral because feeling lang naman un. Meron at merong pupuntahan yang paghihirap natin. All this hard work would go into learning how to touch lives. And that feeling when you know that you’ve touched someone’s life even with all the sleepless nights and stress, it’s just magical. It’s all worth it in the end. ;)

I hope I was able to help, even just a little bit. If you tell me the main reason why you chose it, I think I can help you better. Hihi. Don’t hesitate to ask any more questions. So good luck this coming school year, Iskolar ng Bayan! ;)

OMG. 2nd highest grade for our practical exam!!!!

Ok, I don’t mean to brag, but OMGGG. This never happens in my life. Like all my classmates are way better and I suck (most of the time, OK fine, to be honest, I never pass them) when it comes to practical exams. :\ And this was our Cerebral Palsy class! I mean, this is the class that makes me go -__- out of confusion and boredom. And I got the 2nd highest grade?? 

IS THIS THE REAL LIFE? OR IS THIS JUST FANTASY???

THANK YOU LORD JESUS! A MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED!

On the 2nd day of 2013

It’s only the 2nd of January, year 2013, and UP Manila students were tasked to go to school already. It sucks because all the other universities, yes, even other UP campuses, go back, the earliest, on the 3rd. 

Another thing was, our class today included a 4 hour lecture on APHASIA. Aphasia is so complicated because it is a problem in a person’s already established language system. And my goodness, I have talked about how just topics on normal language development already drove us crazy. I tried my hardest to keep taking notes but by the last 30 minutes, my cognitive processing failed me. I was at a retention capacity deficit. That’s just new jargon I learned today. LOL.

What’s worse? Our canteens were still on vacation so we had to go out of the university for food. Such hassle. :\

But the good thing was we had our Cleft Lip and Palate class in the afternoon and it was all about embryology and genetics and it was fuuuuun. :D Plus, the morning and afternoon commute was traffic-free. That’s because we’re the only students travelling today. :))

Oh the life of a speech pathology major. :))

Holidays. :)

It’s officially Christmas vacation for me! Whoopdidooday! :D

This December has been one of the most hectic Decembers of my life because of all the Lantern Parade preparations going on in UP Manila. It was a a fun Lantern Parade season for our college, yet again, but very busy and somewhat heartbreaking. But ‘tis the season to be jolly and jolly will I be because UP Diliman just finished their Lantern Parade tonight and I was able to catch it as well. Two years of attending two straight Lantern Parades! XD

So yeah, it’s Christmas break, hopefully I get to update my blog more often. AND! Exercise more. I’m thinking of doing some intense workouts before all the feasts really begin. However, I’m sick again. UGH. I just got better from a super long-lasting cough and cold. Now, the same scenario’s going on. :|

Oh well, kahel. At least I get to sleep in! YEAAAAH. XD

In a few hours, it’ll be the last day of my last semestral break as a speech pathology student. NOOOO. SEMBREAK, you shall be missed. I still don’t get why internship doesn’t have one though. :|

The awesome professor.

I’m sitting at my desk at 1am reviewing for more exams next week. One of those exams is the dreaded Language exam. You see, of all subjects, it’s Language I am having the most difficulty with because the concepts are so abstract and hard to grasp. I like subjects which are more scientific and stuff. 

So as I am sitting here, being groggy and all, since it’s so early in the morning, I don’t fall asleep. In fact, I lost all forms of grogginess. WHY? Because I am reading on the famous SLPM (Speech and Language Processing Model) topic by Ma’am Jean Christine Vela, CSP-PASP. It is based on Nation and Aram’s Model. AND BOY, does she explain it well.

I never get any topics on Language on the first lecture. I usually have to read it again after the lecture to be able to grasp the concept. I am just amazed when I remember the first day she lectured in our Language class. For the first time, I was in tune with the lecture and I actually got it. And as I am reading up on it again for next week’s exam, I find the true essence of REviewing. Unlike other topics where my reviewing is actually just learning it first. 

So guys, if you are taking up Speech Pathology in the Philippines, whether it be in UP or UST(but I’m not sure if she talks there as well), if Ma’am Jean guest speaks and lectures for a class, be prepared to get your minds blown. SHE IS AWESOME. :D

Half a month.

I’ve got 15 days left of junior year, 15 days ‘til I can be called an intern. And it is in these days that you feel like you are so near yet so far. All the other universities are on summer vacation already and it’s not even finals week for me. I mean, come one. I’ve got 2 long exams, 1 practical exam, an evaluation paper, an intervention plan, a home program, a case presentation, a research symposium and four final exams before I can even taste a bit of summer. 

It’s like 15 days of whirlwinds and rollercoasters. I just want to be able to eat right (I’ve been eating at the wrong times, messing up my metabolism +stress eating), exercise daily, and sleep well again. I just want summer please.

SUMMER. Y U NO COME ANY SOONER???

OK lang namang mapagod minsan, diba?

I can feel the stress of the last two months of my being a junior. One last before internship. There are too many exams to study for, projects to work on, papers and reports to write, clients to be assessed, cases to be analyzed, and so on and so forth. I just hope I don’t burn out before internship starts. :(

Course LOADssssss.

Today was the first day of the second semester of my junior year.

AND BOOM.

So many projects to do already. So many deadlines.

• I’ve got a video presentation deadline for the 20th of November and still so many letters have to be sent out and replied to before we get to start on that. @_@ 
• On the 23rd of November, there’s this huge Talent Show in our college that we have to totally prepare for because it’s our last year of participation and we still haven’t won a place, aka staying in school to practice til the sun sets. 
• On the 3rd of December is the deadline of a major project for one of our majors, OPST127. This is a project that we get to work hand in hand with some occupational therapy and physical therapy students, which I’m totally stoked about because I can finally see for myself the allied medical part of this profession I’m studying. :P And the project is like, decorating the college exterior, its facade. :P

I know there are so much more to come in the next days, so I’m keeping my spirits up. I’ll be a fighter this semester. I won’t let majors put me down, I will totally kick ass. Let’s do this. :D

HOLY CRAP. TIME FLIES TOO FAST.

Tomorrow, I’m enrolling for my last semester as a regular student in speech pathology because after that semester, I’ll be on my last two semesters of practicum aka the dreaded and horrifying internship. :O :O :O

I can’t believe this. Three more semesters, it’s graduation and I’ll have a degree in speech pathology! I can’t even. :O Then off to med school!!! YAHOOOOO.

SEMBREAK!!!!

I have seriously no idea how to describe my joy right now. Like seriously. I have been through hell and back because of the past semester. Majors was no joke. God, I have no idea, still, why in the world, speech pathology is so demanding. I hate how our college has such high standards as compared to other colleges within our university. It’s not fair. 

I came into this semester with a cum laude GWA. Now, I have no idea how low it’ll be. Oh well. I tried my best. I fought. And I survived. For now, that’s good enough. I’m just glad it’s all over.

So Ima take a little R&R before I enter into my last semester purely as a student because after that, I’ll be an intern. @_@ Yes, it’s scary. But I know my God will carry me through anything. After all, He just helped me survive this al;kdjfa;ljfda;jkdf semester. HAHAHA.

So my TTDs for this 2 week break:

1. CIRCUIT WORKOUTS!!! (I need to lose at least 5 pounds before going back to school)
2. Read books. :> Like leisure ones.
3. Draaaaw. :P
4. Tennis games. :D
5. SLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP.
6. Do absolutely non academically related things. WOOHOO.

So yeah. That’s about it. :P