The Ateneo experience
01-18-2009 Sunday
What's with all the fuss about Ateneo? Sure sure, it's one of the university titans in the country, it's a prestigious school, it's the home of the blue eagle and all that blahblahblah. As for me, I hate schools like that. Schools wherein to be able to pass, you have to have an IQ above 200 or more. Ok that's an exaggeration. It's just that it's so hard to passs on those types of universities yet, a lot of students still wish to get accepted.
I'll be a hypocrite if I say I don't want to study on a school like Ateneo but I can't help but roll my eyes everytime I hear about the entrance exams are hard, this shit that shit. Why can't they be like other schools and accomodate even the not-so-intelligent students? I mean, that's part of the reason why we study right? To transform ourselves from dumb to educated persons.
For schools like Ateneo, they seem to only want a genius to study in their school grounds. Well, the more I think about it, the more I consider that they are not so competent afterall. Come on, open up those little peepers. It's definitely easier to mold a soft clay than a hard one. It's easier to teach the above average students than those average learners. Fuck them and their impossible standards. Fuck those people who'll kill just to get accepted. Fuck those who think that the university where you attended determines your mental abilities and your ability to be considered for a high-paying job.
Why am I shooting these word bullets at Ateneo? You see, I took the Ateneo entrance exam (ACET) earlier today and boy, I think I just lost half of my brain. The English Proficiency, vocabulary and other english exams are a piece of cake..but MATH? Trig? Algebra? log, sin,cotangent,tangentshit? I have to bit my lip to stop myself from laughing right there and then inside the room where we took the exam. I want to laugh because I've never felt so dumb in my entire life! (Yeah, this is worse than the UPCAT). I tried to do some computations but fuck it, I suck so bad at Math. Math problem solving? That's crazy! I can't even solve my own problems!
It's funny though, trust me. You should've seen me do some eenie meenie mini mo on the answer sheet. You should've seen me create an October calendar on my scratch paper because of a certain question that goes like this: I save P10 in October 1, P20 in October 2, P30 in October 3 and so on, how much is my total savings by the end of October if October has 31 days. Damn it, talk about being totally screwed up.
If there's something I prayed for earlier, it's to get everything over with so I can get back to the usual me, wearing a loose tshirt, typing in front of the computer and just enjoying my day-off. Ahh, the simple pleasures in life that I enjoy are still immeasurable.
Well, I'm glad it's over. Uhh, can I get half of my brain back?
posted by Monica-Lynne @ 12:32 AM
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