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!

Kulangot

Malambot
Mainit-init
Pananggalang
Iba't ibang kulay

Mahirap makamtan
Mahinhin
Pakipot
Hindi naman ipot

Malagkit
Di ube
Di suman
Di pagkain

Masarap?
Di ko alam
Kung gusto mo
Iyong subukin

Umiwas siya sa akin
Hindi niya gusto
Ang aming paghihiwalay
Ay sadyang napakasakit

Nakaloloko
Nakababaliw
Umiikot ang aking mundo
Dahil sa kanya

Nakaleletse
Nakabuburat
Kupal
Bwiset

Puno ng pagsisi
Hindi naging kami
Pinanaginip ko
Ang pagkakataong yaon

Malungkot
Pero sana hindi palagi
Gusto ko rin namang
Lumigaya kahit papaano

Ngayon ko lamang napagtanto
Na ang nilalang na iyon ay parang isang kulangot
Mahirap sungkitin, mahirap tanggalin
Ngunit kung tapos na, anong ginhawa

Math 2

I was able to take Math 2 as one of my subjects this semester. There is currently an idea circulating around my head whether or not I will make any mistakes in the entire subject. Putting a goal as such adds a new dimension to its study. I want to bring learning Practical Mathematics to a brand new level.

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Note: I made mistakes in this subject. Nevertheless, I got a grade of 1.0 and vindicated myself in my math subjects.

http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/~fanelli/mathpage.htm

Routine

http://www.neurodermitis-im-griff.de/web/patienten/kids/routine.htm

I know that I should at least make a schedule of the things that I should do (or what is expected of me). It was difficult to carry 2 biology books around the UP campus. These were Brock Biology of Microorganisms and Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology. I should make sufficient effort so as not to turn my effort worthless. Also, I should realize that I would carry them back to the library with an effort which is more or less equal to taking them around and home.

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3rd Year, 2nd Semester, Academic Year 2005-2006

Just so you may know, my schedule for this semester is as follows:

CLASS CODE SUBJECT SECTION UNITS DAYS TIME ROOM
37533 Bio 101 MHW 3 MTh 1-2:30 P.M. IB 105
37535 Bio 101 MHWHRU Th 2:30-5:30 P.M. PH 4209-11
37547 Bio 120 MHQ 4 MTh 7:30-8:30 A.M. IB 104
37548 Bio 120 MHQRU MTh 8:30-11:30 A.M. IB 204
37562 Bio 150 TFQ 4 TF 7:30-8:30 A.M. IB 104
37564 Bio 150 TFQXY TF 2:30-5:30 P.M. IB 214
39160 Math 2 TFR 3 TF 8:30-10 A.M. MB 117
15674 PI 100 MHV1 3 MTh 11:30 A.M.-1 P.M. CAL 401