☀ originally posted in http://kymnayre.co.cc on 30 October 2008
I miss my bed.
I have never slept in my room since my very first day in law school. For almost five months, I have been satisfied with 3-4 hours of sleep every night in our sala beside toritz (my lappytoppy), textbooks and codals, and hundreds of photocopies of cases. Seeing my bed was just so disturbing while studying. It was hard. Definitely. Never in my entire life that I have been this busy.
Allow me to quote Atty. Pablito A. Perez, the Vice Dean of the San Beda College of Law:
“This is probably the most complex, demanding but rewarding phase of your preparation for your chosen life career. Studying law, and becoming a lawyer, shall test each of you in a way that you have never been tested before. The Law School will demand diligence, unperturbed dedication and focus, mastery and excellence day after day. It will be a very long way before you rest.”
I thought my study habits during my ‘pre-law years’ were the best, at least for me, to help me pass subjects. But for this new mad world that I just discovered, what was considered best was now nothing but a dead strategy. Before, I devoted my whole life to learn, but now, I realized I had to live and die a thousand times over. I was crying every end of the week for my first months in law school. Too much frustration. Unbelievable. I saw my classmate fainted during a recitation. Someone got cursed by a professor for not reading a certain case. Everyone in class has studied exhaustively four chapters of the book and forty cases (one case usually consists of 20+ pages with a font size too small to ascertain) for just one meeting in one subject, and still many got bokya* during the recit. It felt like you’re taking the bar exam every single day. It felt like you’re defending yourself in the trial court every hour. As what a kuya in school told me, “Dito, hindi lang basta matalino ka. Kailangan nuknukan ka ng sipag. Palakasan ng loob dito.”
bittersweet
For my five months of sweet struggle in law school, I want to thank all my classmates (I am so proud to have been with you. I loved my job as your beadle.), my family, my professor in Constitutional Law 1 – Atty. Adonis V. Gabriel (You inspired me so much.), Marfeal (You are my life professor.), and my father, Tolits – this is all for you.
*Bokya/65 – this is what happens when you are unable to give any answer in class recitation or if you give a totally incorrect answer to a question and your professor thereafter calls someone else for recitation.
kaya mo yan kym. mag anti aging cream ka na lang. hehe. prevention is better than cure
iniisip ko pa lang ung sinasabi, feeling ko, npakaaaaaa payat mo na lalo. hehe
Posted by sophia sanchez | October 30, 2008, 7:00 amgo kym!:)
Posted by erika cruzado | October 30, 2008, 7:24 amhekhek. para sa ikauunlad ng bansang pilipinas… go nayre!
Posted by leslie mercader | October 30, 2008, 10:25 amsabi nga sa isang tsismis na narinig ko lately,
Ang mga law student, walang karapatan magreklamo. Kung magrereklamo, might as well drop. Hehe. Yan ang isa sa mga kailangan nating i-sacrifice. Hay.. Kaya natin to!
Posted by sheena antalan | October 30, 2008, 12:42 pmhindi halatang idol mo si adonis. Hehe. In fairness, sobrang galing nya. Sana ganun din tayo.
Posted by sheena antalan | October 30, 2008, 1:03 pmdude!! naglalaw ka?! gosh!! lawyer kita ah!! libre ang singil ahh hahahahha
Posted by love zara | October 30, 2008, 2:33 pmIt was such a journey, 5 months in law school is equivalent to ten years in college! Maybe more, and i am such a lucky man that I spent all of it with the person who drives me crazy and reads my cases for me!!!!
Posted by Marfeal Santiago | November 3, 2008, 8:17 amhehehe
) honestly, i found comfort reading your blog. haha. parang 100x yung hardship mo compared to us taking med. AJA KYM! kaya mo yan!!!
Posted by aileen velasco | November 3, 2008, 9:06 am