Biology

I am Joel Tolentino Duque. Currently, I am a 3rd year student at UP Diliman taking up the undergraduate course BS Biology. In high school, Biology was my waterloo. That may, in part, explain my poor performance in my Biology subjects. My card grades in Biology 11 = 2.5, 12 = 2.5, 180 = 2.25, 102 = 3, 115 = 2.5, and 140 = 2.25. My mother convinced me, somehow, to study biology to become a good medical student and eventually a doctor in the future. In the past, my mother was denied access to the medical school in UST just because her father was a farmer. That translated, more or less, to the questionable capacity of her parents to pay for her supposedly high tuition fees. Had she known this, she told me that she have put 'landlord' as the occupation of her father. And so here I am, more than half way through my course. I liked my Economics subject in high school, having obtained the gold medal for that subject in high school. Also, I liked Mathematics for a long time, from my years in preparatory school all the way to my last year in high school. I could've taken up BS Economics or BS Mathematics instead but I guess I have failed myself for not having asserted to my family, especially to my mother that I didn't want to be a doctor. I don't know to what extent I am prejudging Medicine with Biology. My life is definitely starting to unfold before me and I have no idea to where I am going or what I'll be doing in the next, 5, 10, or 20 years in my life. Life is both fortunate and unfortunate. It is full of questions. Unfortunate because the roads are uncertain and the events are random. And fortunate because there are wonderful and not so wonderful but normal people, nonetheless, who have been there to comfort me and give me a semblance of normality plainly because of their existence. I give my biggest thanks to you. Let's face life with a renewed sense of faith and leap towards the bright tomorrow!