Comments on: A Decision

By: pau

pau — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:20:49 +0000

wow.. you’re kinda like me. I consider myself a nerd for being grade conscious.. for me, getting good marks is big deal.. and unfortunately, high expectations really trouble me whenever i wasn’t able to achieve some goal. Being grade conscious really makes me depressed at times whenever i look at the honour roll list and not see my name at the first top four. Up until now, i’m still grade conscious.. i just think it would be better to be a good student than slack off, wasting energy not using our brain. But yea, you are right, grades aren’t everything.. because grades won’t really get you nowhere if it wasn’t for your attitude about life.

I know one person in my school who always gets high grades, the top place in his batch’s honour roll, and possibly, a future dean’s lister. I admired this guy for his knowledge.. but then later on, something happened in his life that made me, and the others as well, realize that grades aren’t really everything.

My dad even said na mas okay ang maabilidad kesa sa matalino.

and indeed, he was right.

By: Exene

Exene — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:57:35 +0000

It must be tough to care about your grades so much. You shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself. Keep this between you and me but I don’t think they are super important but I know that you already heard that. Don’t revolve your life around grades. What is important is your ability to talk to others that’s the key to success. My teacher told me so. But don’t become lazy like me either.

By: scart

scart — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:38:59 +0000

wag mo naman masyadong isantabi ang pag-aim mo ng high grades. Malaking tulong din kasi yan lalo na kung scholar ka. Hindi naman porket grades conscious ka eh ibig sabihin being famous lang ang habol mo diba? Challenging din kasi yun lalo na kung may katapat kang matalino din. Sa tingin ko aiming high grades is a challenging rule being a student kasi hindi lahat may determinasyon sa pag-maintained ng grades nila. I’m sure yung iba dyan sinasabi lang na hmp! hindi lang naman grades ang importante eh kasi hindi nila kayang abutin yun. Madali kasing ma-divert ang utak nila sa simpleng sabi lang ng kakilala or sa ibang bagay.

basta kung ano nais mo at importante gawin mo…

By: akocda

akocda — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:41:45 +0000

i guess that even though you don’t study hard, you’ll still have high grades. if a person really is intelligent, then even though without studying THAT hard, he’ll still achieve a high performance at school. ^_^ ah i remember my younger brother who doesn’t even care about school, but then he got some pretty high grades and got accepted at UP Diliman. :clap:

well, yeah, just do what you think will make you happy. :boogie: BTW, sorry about the link exchange, our internet connection had some problems (maybe because of the typhoon), and i can’t access my FTP account in the internet shop.

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:14:29 +0000

I have to admit that as each day passes by, I’m slowly losing the fervour to study. I try to live up with expectations but it seems that I can no longer cope up with it, because for me at least, a self-esteem that has once been rived can never be patched up. It’s not that I no longer want to study, in fact, I’m striving ever so hard to get into the best universities around (I’d like to study in LSE), it’s because… I don’t know. However, I’m still hoping that one day, I’ll be able to regain the passion and concern (towards studying, that is) I used to have.

All I can say is to study hard not because you want to get high grades but because of your dream to become successful in the future. And here I am going to quote one of my most favourite Filipino authors around:

Nalaman ko na hindi pala exam na may passing rate ang buhay. Hindi ito multiple choice, identification, true or false, enumeration, o fill-in-the-blanks na sinasagutan, kundi essay na isinusulat araw-araw. Huhusgahan ito hindi base sa kung tama o mali ang sagot, kundi base sa kung may kabuluhan ang mga naisulat o wala. Allowed ang erasures. ~Bob Ong, ABNKKBSNPLAKo?!

By: Shayne

Shayne — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:03:02 +0000

Well, siguro wag mo kong pakingan kasi ever since naman baligtad tayo. Pero dear, enjoy life! Grades are just grades. Pag ngreunion kayo, di naman nila hahanapin kung sino yung may 98 sa algeb or chemistry e… hahanapin nila yung kasama nila who they laugh with at kasa-kasama nila. Kasi yun yon e!

Naku, cousin dear… iinom mo nalang yan! hahahaha. Well, kahit ganito ako masaya naman ako at di naman bumabagsak (wag mu lang icount yung 5 ko nung first year, frist sem) Well, basta kung ano magpapasaya sayo. Ako kasi shopping at tambay ang ngpapasaya sakin e hahahaha (of course achievements din sa acads). HAHA I’m not really a bad influence, I think. A little maybe but not really. Right?

By: utakGAGO

utakGAGO — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:18:54 +0000

Oh well, we do have our ups and downs in terms of our interests with studying. Sometimes we need to let the chips fall where they may for us to realize something, and strive harder.

Like a happy-go-lucky guy would always say, enjoy life. Hehehe. :p

By: skwayred

skwayred — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:29:46 +0000

Of course, you still have to maintain good grades if not exceedingly good grades. It will look good on your transcript.
I agree though that it’s darn tedious to memorize dates or minute details you will really never use outside the four corners of the classroom. If you’re studying just for the sake of having high-grades, then that defeats the very purpose of studying. That’s why I think there’s something wrong with the our educational system. I feel that we’re being fed with a lot of useless crap and that the exams they give to students are structured poorly.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:55:00 +0000

Actually, I donÂ’t have problems with my majors as of today. Mas mababa nga ang mga grades ko sa mga minor e. Haha. Weird, eh?

Meron kasi minsan na minor instructors feeling major. At least that’s how we term it.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:14:13 +0000

I’m not sure but it seems that you’re exhausted by people who expect from you so much. Ewan ko lang ha. I don’t know the whole picture kasi.

Although grades can be an asset, I learned from one speaker in a seminar I attended na 75-80% ng mga hired people ay nakuha dahil sa personality nila.