Pressure....

I really love my school and my course... It's probably because my school is the best economic school in the Philippines! Yes! Go UA&P-IEP! I have learned to love the system. It is really difficult just to get by through the day. We have professors who graduated from Hokaido, Purdue and Pittsburgh this current semester. We would soon have a professor from Harvard for the second term of our Econ. Hist. Just last sem, we had a prof. from Cornell and Australia. We even have a prof who was related to European companies regarding their finances for acquisition and merging of several companies. Man! It is really overwhelming to be surrounded by such brilliant minds.

As the title of my blog indicates, I would like to have this short moment of vacuum. A moment in time when I have nothing else to do but simply blurt out whatever I am currently thinking. The thing is, I had a really hard time with Math Stat this afternoon. I understood what the professor was saying, the bad thing is, it does not follow that I could do the solution independently. What makes it hard is the fact that I did not expect that we would be 244 pages behind readings. I do not know how I could cope up with the readings considering the fact that I have two essays to write and I do not have any clue what to write about yet. I was also planning to read 3 chapters of Macro; another 2 of Micro; the 40-page Laborem Exercens handout by Pope John Paul II for Work and Society and a whole lot of news for our morning recitation on Monday. I know that Graduate School is not supposed to be a walk in the park but I didn't know it was gonna be a walk in the desert with no oasis anywhere near in sight.

The weird thing is, despite the fact that I have so many things in my plate, my entrepreneurial and capitalistic spirit is still burning. I want to do something other than school. But I can neither find the time nor the energy to do so.

I'll start cracking on my readings in the hope that I will find some good insights for tomorrow's research. Why does the submission have to be on Monday? :(

Well, I am in UA&P and I am in IEP. I should be excellent. I do not wish to disgrace our tradition. I still have in my mind what Dr. Mariano, our University President told me in my freshman year. "If the university produces beer, you'll be one of our finest brewery." :)

Added Information: An IEP alumnus of UA&P took a significant role in drafting the recent tax break for minimum wage earners. Kudos to you my co-economist! I do not know who you are but the feedbacks we heard from Dr. Terosa earlier makes me proud to be part of what you have gone through! :)