SENIOR'S JOURNEY
Being a Senior
Being a senior is fun, sure. But it’s fun in the kind of way that flying up in a plane with a parachute that might not release when you want it to is fun. Almost every conversation with a graduating senior involves the words, “I don’t know,” repeated multiple times. We are in a process of self-evaluation that even involves our physical possessions.
There are other perks to being a senior, like not having to worry about being judged for sitting alone in the caneen; every non-senior assumes that you’re ruminating on the wonderful life upon which you will embark after graduation. We know how to do passable work, even good work, with minimal effort. We know how to balance drinking achievements with thinking achievements.
To be a senior is to experience culmination. You can’t be a freshman, sophomore, or junior without sometimes thinking about what will come as an older student, and you can’t be a senior without having lived through that anticipation, and having now seen it through to completion.
It seems to us like the end of college is the end of what comes pre-planned in life. We can both remember being much younger and having career ambitions, and nebulous plans for what we might do after finishing college. But the furthest concrete point on that timeline is now in under a month. And the ethereal quality of those post-college plans are even more apparent now that we truly see their non-existence.
At the same time, this point in life is really exciting, for a number of reasons. For the first time in our waking memories, we will be out of school. No more homework, no more papers to write, no more all-nighters spent knowing that the work we’re doing is not up to par. No more professorial evaluations of how our work compares to both our previous work and the work of our peers. No part of our characters will be defined by our academic merit; our employers will judge our work performance, and our friends will judge our characters.
Like anything in life, there are pros and cons to being an about-to-graduate college student. The situation we are in now is a marriage of cautious optimism and crippling despair. We know or hubristically presume to know that everything will be fine in the long run. Who knows, we might even be happy one day.
But we will be happy when we’re under the tent at Commencement, together with our graduating class and our families. And we will be happy when we’re out in front of the stage, collecting our diplomas, hugging our friends, meeting dozens of moms, dads, brothers, sisters, and other relatives, reuniting with old friends who come back to see us graduate, and seeing off our younger peers who will continue our legacies and keep Infant King Academy traditions alive. Those hugs and tears will be the true culminating moments of our time at Infant King Academy, and, to a certain extent, of our lives thus far. And we look forward to them.
To all the seniors who will be there graduating with us, good luck. To all the students who will stay beyond this June, good luck.
Memoirs
Sinulog de Jimalalud
Celebrated every 13th day of
January, the Sinulog de Jimalalud, known today as Hambalalud Festival is
the most contested event in celebration of the town's fiesta and
unending blessings & generosity of the Holy Child, Sr. Sto Niño.
The Hambabalud Festival, the most awaited event each year, derives its name from the town’s most treasured trees, Hambabalud, which are believed to be the realm of the enchanted guardian of the trees, the mountain nymph they called, Diwata. To counteract the evils unleashed, the local folks seek the intercession of their patron, the Holy Child.
The
Hambabalud tree has become the symbol of God’s natural gift to the
inhabitants, a part and parcel of the lives of the Jimalaludnons which
they celebrate in the festival.
Retreat
Despite of the busy schedules yet we found time for our spiritual exercises. It was indeed memorable for us (batch 2014-2015) since it's the first time that our retreat will be held in other province, the Province of Cebu although there are many hindrances but still we conquer it all with he help of the Almighty God. When we cross the big waves of the sea and the curves and zigzags of the way yet we arrived safe and sound.
We learned a lot that failures and success are parts of our daily lives. When everything seems to be not good just bow down and pray to God and everything will put to order. Our facilitator said "I see something in you that only God knows what it is". A line which makes everybody realized.
There are a lot of experiences that we experienced. It may be good or bad but still it gives us lesson.
As we counting the days of our departure in Infant King Academy, we hope that these remaining days will be a successful one. We hope so.
