[On Balancing Academics, House Council and Slack Culture] and [Rants]

These past few days, I’m having a hard time balancing my academics, house council work and the slack culture I’ve been used for so many years.

I’ve been guilty for not performing well on my academics. I’ve been guilty for not being so active in doing house council works. But I’m extremely guilty for slacking all day and night in front of my laptop playing with PHP Frameworks (CakePHP and CodeIgniter).

As the end of the semester is fast approaching, I promise myself to perform well on all three fields. I’ll try not to miss a single class, not to miss another house council deadline, at the same time not to deprive myself on entering my sweet slack culture.

Good luck to me. I still have to study well for my upcoming Math17 4th Long Exam this Friday. I still have to finish all my Machine Exercises due this Monday (it was supposed to be by groups of three but since I missed the special Monday class, I have to do it alone). I still have to reply to inbound nonrhetorical House Council letters. I still have to finish collecting data for the Kalayaan Residence Hall Association resident database. I still have to reduce my slack time that it yields an equilibrium when I sum those three fields up.

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I got a sure 5.0 for Physical Education 2 (Scuba Diving) for a reason that I was not able to find my class. I went to the venue of my class as stated on my Form 5, time of my class but did not find them there. I chose to enter another class on the same venue (Pool 1) – Skin Diving, for fun. I was not able to “Change Matriculation” from Scuba Diving to Skin Diving for a reason that I can’t find my instructor. I was not able to drop my subject ’cause as I’ve said I can’t find my instructor.

But it’s okay. PE units are not included on General Weighted Average (GWA) computation. At least, I’ve enjoyed swimming on the pool without the snorkels unlike my other classmates. I was able to survive in the middle of a 12-foot pool, again without the snorkels. I was able to enhance my swimming skills. I was able to increase the possibilities of me getting admitted to the Swimming Varsity.

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Partner Residents – our buddies from our partner corridors (in the dorm). I had three partner residents, but only know two of them. Since we’re required to have a documentation of a “date” with the partner residents, we dated. We had our dinner last night at the Treehouse (a restaurant near SOLAIR and University Avenue). Since I’m the guy of the trio (supposed to be quatrio [not sure on this], it was my treat. We shared a fraction of our lives to each other. Badly, we had to go early since I still have to attend to a House Council meeting.

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Computer Center (UP Computer Center) serves as the central hub that interconnects the fiber-optic backbones in UP Diliman and other UP campuses (Wikipedia). For four months, I’ve been having a good time accessing the Internet thru the facility’s wireless internet. It was fast, as fast as downloading a 700mb file in 40 minutes. How fast is that? One SpeedTest.net evaluation gave me a download speed of as high as 9,000+ kilobits per second [equivalent to 1.xx MB per second download] on a nearby testing station and as low as 1500 kilobits per second [200+ kb per second download]. Cool! But just recently, the internet users there are stuck with a slower and unstable Internet. What do I mean by slow? Only about 700+ kbps on most servers.

I know that 700+ kbps is a pretty fast home internet but being used to lightspeed Internet, it’s crappy slow. Huhuhu, I hope that it gets fixed as soon as possible.

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4. They Chose Me!
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