A Peek From My World: College Life Edition

I entered college with the intention of keeping my student life chill and simple. None of the things happening now are planned but I am still glad how things turned out to be.

First year college, I was kind of overwhelmed for the vast shift from being a normal and shy student to being a student leader. First was when I was elected as the class beadle of the block president and then one thing led to another. The next thing I knew, I was already part of the freshmen council on our college as well as our major council.

During the second term on of our second semester as freshmen students, 2 weeks of class suspension happened until lockdown was fully implemented. We didn't finished the rest of the semester but our university implemented mass promotion therefore we all passed our first year and our professors just used our activities, outputs, quizzes and exams during the first term of that semester as basis for our grades.

Second year college, we're finally back to classes but not face to face. Online classes has officially started yet I didn't feel it that much because our university is conducting an asynchronous classes meaning that we are not required to meet with our professors real time via online platforms. We only have google classroom where materials such as our books, modules, and pre-recorded discussion of our professors are uploaded and we can access that anytime. Synchronous meeting will be on the students' discretion since the university think that it will not be that effective to conduct synchronous classes because not all students have access to a stable internet connection.

And by the way, I was still the block president on our second year in college but since the mode of classes is way different from face to face, I thought about letting go of some responsibilities to manage my time more efficiently on this new mode of class setting and so I step down from the major council and of course, I'm not part of the freshmen council anymore that time.

For the first few months, I felt free, I was doing a good job as the block president while keeping a balance between my studies, chores at home, helping with the business and my guilty pleasures such as watching Kdrama, american series and reading Wattpad.

But then, maybe I'm not really meant to have a normal student life. LOL

On our second semester as second year student, an opportunity opened and it was the recruitment activity of one of the recognized college-based student organization on our university. And this organization happened to be in line and made specifically for our course and so I just found myself signing up to be one of the applicant on this organization.

My words and my plans of lessening my load of responsibilities only lasted for a while before I involved myself with an even more heavier responsibilities. LOL. The application process took a while, there were times when I was really demotivated to move or to push through with the process but I was glad my perseverance prevailed and now that I am already part of the organization, I can say that surviving the process was indeed worth it.

Here comes miss technical...

Before we became an official member of the organization, we were asked on which committee would we want to work with. We have four committees in total and those are activity permit, captions, arts, and technical committee. Having a background with paperworks in an organization, I volunteered to be part of the activity permit committee but for the reason that I don't know, I just found myself being added to the group chat of technical committee.

For the first few months, I wasn't being asked to be the main technical but there goes my time to shine, it happened last month and that was also the time when I started to be inactive in here. I was assigned to be the main technical for an event and what's even more challenging is the use of a platform that is new to me.

It was StreamYard, and though it isn't that complicated, there was still a certain level of difficulty since it doesn't have all the features that we are looking for. Moving on, since I was the one in charge with that event, I became the main technical again for our recent event last April 9 that once again occupied my time.

I have been busy the past weeks since I am also part of the preparation of the event. It was only today that I manage to breathe for a while before conducting another event at my other organization tomorrow.

Speaking of other org...

Let us rewind for a few weeks for a bit. As I have shared last time on my recent article, one of the ministry-based student organization on our university has announced that they are open for recruitment and so, me, who feels like can handle more responsibility, signed up for it once again and now, I am officially a member of two student organizations.

After breathing from our event last Saturday, I spent hours today with the preparation for our event tomorrow.

By the way, I think I forgot to mention but I am on my 3rd year now. I have membership to two student organizations, I am once again an officer on our major council, and still, the block president.

To be honest, never did I imagined that my college life would be this hectic. It is so far to my plans of being a normal college student that only have academics as my worries. But still, even though this isn't what I imagined it to be, no matter how much stress I get or how sleep deprived I am whenever we have events, I must say that all of those are worth it and I can feel myself, especially my skills, growing and improving day by day.

I guess, that would be all for now. Thanks for reading this far! It was nice sharing my life as a student and I appreciate you reading till the end of it.

Take care! :)