Saturday, 26 April 2008
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Sparta (Spartē) n.
The ancient land of Sparta, now more commonly known as "St. Luke's College of Nursing", lies at the heart of Quezon City, in a strategic position guarded by "Mount Taygetus", now known as "St. Luke's Hospital".
Sparta was, above all, a militarist state, and emphasis on military fitness began virtually at "birth" (Now more commonly known as "enrollment"). Shortly after "birth", the child was tested for strength and intelligence.
If the child survived it was brought before the "elders" ("professors") of the tribe. The "elders" then decided whether it was to be reared or not. If found defective or weak, the baby was left on the wild slopes of Mount Taygetos also known as "Apothetae", or as the "Place of Rejection" - to die.
In this way the Spartans attempted the maintenance of high physical and mental standards in their population. From the earliest days of the Spartan citizen, the claim on his life by the state was absolute and strictly enforced.
It was customary in Sparta that before the Spartans would go off to war, their parents would present them with their shield and say: "With this, or upon this" —meaning Spartans could only return to Sparta in one of two ways: victorious or dead.
Okay. Enough of the introduction. Here's the real deal. :)
Everyone in my section FAILED for our midterm this summer. Mind you, some of them are the TOP NOTCHERS of our batch, not just mere humans. These are the people who survived... the SPARTANS OF BATCH AMARANTH, the ones who brutally battled their way into passing with flying colors, the ones who did not sleep to study for Anatomy and Microbiology, the ones who 80-percented the Nursing aptitude test, the ones that stayed in the Dean's list, the ones with scholarships in their name, the FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR that was left from a thousand and three hundred...
I'm not saying all of them are geniuses, I mean, I BARELY passed. If it weren't for my minor subjects, I would have failed. And and and, if you wanna know, I got a 1.94 GPA... *whew* take note, 2.00 was the passing grade, thank you Lord! So don't say I'm being mayabang. I just really admire those who really made an effort AND succeeded too :) (wala kasi akong ka effort effort haha)
So there... I'm barely hanging for my life right now. IT IS DIFFICULT. VERY DIFFICULT. I actually think that I'm one of the dumbest in my class. I know, you think I'm exaggerating but I'm trying to turn it into a positive thing :) I'm actually really REALLY trying to keep up and get higher grades this time :)
Most of my classmates are really smart okay. They get 1.25 in Anatomy and 1's in the minor subjects (for those confused, 1 is the highest grade in most colleges, 5 is the lowest). Why does St. Luke's College of Nursing have to do this to us?
Okay, I understand that they're letting us taste failure to push us to do better but I don't think It was neccesary to let our grades suffer for it. What the heck are they thinking?
I'm really.. REALLY having a hard time just to pass right now. Dude, I never read my books during the 1st year and I passed (barely). But now that I actually read ALL the pages in my book, take notes and actually review really hard... Now that I actually do STUDY, is the time when I actually FAIL.
Do you know that feeling when you study REAAALLLY hard for a test, you do everything humanely possible to stay awake while staying away from temptations like TV and the PC? You spend hours making review notes and memorizing gazillions of terms for 3 Major subjects.You brush off your highschool reunion because you have "to study". You get caffeine overdose from all the coffee you drank to stay awake. In short.. You give it all you got, all efforts squeezed in to studying...
....and what do you get?
YOU FAIL.
HOMAAIIGGGAAD. Is it this hard to become a nurse? Is it like this in all nursing schools? Do we deserve this injustice?!
I just don't think it's all worth the hardship. We've had a very traumatizing year last year. We lost a lot of people we considered our friends. We got seperated from our barkadas. We experienced the fear of not knowing wether we were "safe" or not. We burned our pockets spending every cent on school projects and homeworks. We lost our minds trying to get that 75% passing grade.
So to those of you Spartans who moved to other "tribes", don't feel too bad, you're really not missing much. I hope you've learned a lot from "Sparta", use the discipline that they taught us to excel in the tribes that you chose :)
To those Spartans who, like me, are struggling too, BE STRONG. If only we could hold war against our "tribe", I would definitely join (haha!). But right now all we can do is PERSEVERE.
And by the way, according to some friends from the higher batches, this is NORMAL. Sure, we will have more of these trying times, sure we will have these frustrated moments, but we WILL PASS!
I'm not discouraging you, but it's better to be prepared. We can do this! We shall B*TCH SLAP those who made us suffer! We shall pass!
BATCH AMARANTH!
WE ARE SPARTANS!!!
AHOO!!! AHOO!!
Marge for WORLD PEACE Y'ALL!!
Haha :) Peace out! By the way.. 62.36% is soooo not a grade. Leche yan.
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