It has been quite a good but tiring journey during our first semester. I was quite anxious that I would be getting very low grades since my college professors have been giving me quite the bad grade and also, I wasn't performing that well since I'm still on my vacation mood. Anyways, things ended up not as what I expected them to be. I got good grades, well, except for my two subjects that gave me a grade of 2.00. I'm surprised, honestly. I expected a grade a lot lower than that, a 3.00, I don't even know. I didn't do well on those subjects.

Then, the second semester started, after a month-long break, now we're back with the sleepless nights, our faces on our drafting tables. In short, we're here again to what we were all whining about for the past five months (I think). We're back to the same ground that we partly missed, and partly, never mind. The different thing about this semester is that we get to have new professors on certain subjects. Some are better than what we had last semester, some are worse, others.... worst. As usual, I struggled with my design classes as I still have no clue on what is it exactly is beautiful or acceptable in the eyes of a licensed architect. To tell you honestly, I didn't had any clue what is beyond designing building before I entered this course. If only I knew, I would've chosen a different path, a different life, a different course. But hey, I'm already here. It's quite fun staying up late, other teens envy us for being able to stay awake for days- working. Let's cut to the chase, a part of me isn't into architecture at all.

A short preview of what happened since the beginning of the second semester up to now, well, we celebrated the annual Paskuhan, had this so-called 'Christmas' plate which wasn't checked when we got back on January. We had this cool research paper work, of all the school works we are ought to do, I enjoyed this one.

1st day of February, 2014

Doing some Graphics plate, a floor plan, two elevations and a 2-pt perspective of our choice, each on it's perspective buff papers. It's already 11 PM and I still have a design plate, transitional shelter, Visual Techniques plate, a very very detailed church that was destroyed during the Bohol earthquake that we have to render with watercolor, monochromatic or in true color, also, I have an  Analytic Geometry quiz on Monday that I don't even know if I'll be able to pass. Contemplating on whether or not, take on a different course next year.

A little note regarding my sleep the past week, I've been lacking hours of sleep for weeks now. I hope I could sleep everything off during the Arki Week. No more plates, please?

3rd day of February, 2014
Finally, things are about to be finished. My Graphics exhibit plate is doing well. Almost done rendering with my Design plate and our VT plate, just a few more detailing and blending and it's good to go. I haven't recovered from my two-day non-stop drafting work. I haven't had a good 7-hr sleep since the rain of plates came. I'm not doing well at the moment. I. AM. NOT. IN. A. GOOD. STATE. TO. MAKE. DECENT. PLATES. But hey, miracles happen and some stuff that I did came out good.... so far. Anyways, my thoughts of shifting to another course ON ANOTHER COLLEGE, if ever I slip through this cut-off, I'll push through with this course, if not, I'll just go to a better college that would provide me better education.

Just a reminder to all those incoming first year colleges out there, DON'T GO AFTER THE NAME OR THE REPUTATION OF THE SCHOOL. GO FOR THE BEST SCHOOL THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST EDUCATION FOR THE COURSE YOU'LL BE TAKING THAT YOU CAN AFFORD.