Monday post-WORLDS2 nervous breakdown -- After delivering a badly-analyzed class report on Nietzsche, Serina Alonzo runs to the girls' restroom and weeps. She sits at the hallway for thirty minutes, thinks of skipping lunch to punish herself, and then reads more Nietzsche in attempt to improve her crappy paper. She does, with help from great people.
A self-criticizing perfectionist, Serina Alonzo wept for long when things did not work out as planned that morning. It was likely that the professor, disappointed, gave her a nightmarish score of 0.0 or lower. The student was soon found walking out of the restroom door, blubbering with a messy bunch of tissues. After a few minutes of moping around, she went straight to her next class all fixed, as if nothing disastrous had just happened.
With Trish Gan and Leann Guatno at lunch, Serina's plan of punishing herself by skipping lunch did not push through--she couldn't with the company of friends. While eating, they ranted to each other about stress, the trimestral system, and slacker-off group mates--ultimately wishing that the hell weeks would be over sooner. To cheer up, Serina thought of telling them about her WRIFICT cheesy love-story plot. As they proceeded to the campus through Agno gate, Serina saw a band of Lasallian brothers and felt embarrassed right after unintentionally squeeing in public and exclaiming "BROTHERS!!!" with googly eyes.
The three friends spent the rest of their only common break at the gazebo exchanging comments on the plot. A fan of love stories, Trish said that she liked it and that it reminded her of some Korean dramas. Leann, on the other hand, was able to predict its autobiographical suggestion. Serina then revealed how each part of the plot was drawn from real life experiences. The critique session eventually metamorphosed into a conversation about Serina's male friends.
Heading to class, Serina took the back-door route to the faculty building and was blocked by the Groyon at the door. Pondering whether to ram herself through the obstacle or to just stare at it, she found herself babbling about stuff until he eventually unblocked the way.
After WRIFICT, now with two papers--Nietzsche and book critique--to worry about, she was glassyeyed and so decided to go up to the Philosophy department for help--what she realized she should have done weeks ago. Having been a member of DLSU Pilosopo since freshman year, the people in that department were very familiar people. Serina went to the really friendly department secretary, Ate Tin, and ranted all about her Nietzsche struggles, after which Ate Tin approached a professor and asked him to help the sorry student. The professor lent her two books.
Serina and the professor talked for more than an hour until the rain poured, preventing her from heading to the SDA building. In that event, she went down to the Literature department and stayed there for aircon, and also to write a note to her WORLDS2 professor and to do some homework. She was then met by one other professor who asked "How was the comprehensive exams?"
Realizing that she also had the comprehensive exams to worry about in addition to the two crappy papers and three other exams, she pulled out her checklist and placed an X mark beside "coffee date with ---." Clearly, studies have to be prioritized. What's not to love?
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