Graduation Stresses!

This April, we will end our high school term in the University of the Philippines High School in Cebu. The four years was so fast for us because we finally came to the point where all of us will have to bid farewell to our schoolmates and to the faculty as well.

Before we make it to the Graduation, we still have to accomplish a lot of things before we bid goodbye to them. We still have to pass a lot of requirements especially in our Research. The research paper was the fruit of our hard labor where we spent our blood and sweat in it. It was exhausting doing this early exposure to the College life. Suppose to be, thesis should be done when we reach College but not in the University of the Philippines where Academic Excellence is the aim. I think all of us were stressed about the Research paper. Since the beginning of the Research subject in Third year, we were already stressed. From the proposal down to the Final copy of our Research paper that will be bound, it was a very crucial and tough job for it will be displayed and use as a basis for the coming generations.

Next week, we will be going to have our Final Periodical Exam. This time, our topics are very hard for it is accumulated from the beginning of the school year. It will be also very stressful because we need to double-time and study well for the Exam for this will be the basis if we will graduate or not. We should be very careful in answering these questions and we hope that we will get high scores. I also hope that all of us will graduate from this Alma Mater which we treat as our second home. The Exam will run for three days with two subjects for two consecutive days and only one subject for the third day. At least, we will not be so stressed on the third day.

Our suffering does not only end there, we still have to submit some of the requirements such as the Graduation Song for our Music class, Biographies of Economists for the Economics class, Production Album in Filipino and the blog for our English class. After the Exam, we still have to double time to submit all our requirements as soon as possible because some of the teachers will go out-of-town to attend meetings, live in other countries and work there and have their vacation. UP High is already late for vacation.

We also have other requirements such as payments for the Prom pictures, class pictures and even the sinking fund as well. I think after we graduate, our pockets will be empty. Not only that, we still have to comply for other teachers of our deficiencies. The clearance signing will be a trouble day for us for we have to be cleared immediately for us to enroll in other campuses. For the UPCAT passers, we will also have to comply for our College Admission in UP High in the assigned dates for us.

After all these exhausting things, we still have to practice our graduation ceremony. I think this practice will not be overloaded anymore because I’m sure that some of us are already cleared. “Some of Us”: I repeat!

This will be the stresses we will be encountering before we go out of the realms of UP High same as what we’ve experienced when we were still in the lower years. Even though it is very stressful, it is still enjoyable for we experience the same pressure together!