2ND MEETING: WISH KO LANG (READINGS)

It feels good remembering and talking about our high school days. Many would say that high school is the happiest phase in one’s educational journey.

Perhaps, you would never forget the intramurals, school foundation day celebrations, field trips, recollections/retreats, school competitions (such as singing, dancing, battle of the bands, essay writing, quiz bee, talent and beauty contests), the Junior and Senior Prom, and of course the graduation day.

Try to recall the first time you received a love note from an admirer? What about the chocolates and roses given to you during Valentine’s Day? What about your first crush, your first dance in one of the organized parties in school? Your first boyfriend or girlfriend?

Do you still remember your classmate who made you laugh with his funny jokes? What about the ‘gimiks” with your friends or “katropa”? Think of your best friend who has always been by your side through thick and thin. Remember the teachers who motivated you to keep on believing in yourself.

From time to time, it’s really nice recalling these wonderful experiences, the experiences in high school that made you laughed, cried and felt blessed. But life must go on. You definitely have to move on and sail on towards the direction of your vision in life. Wherever you are, your wonderful experiences in high school will always be a special part of you.

Now, as you enter another chapter in your life in college, it is natural for a freshman like you to wish and hope that your college life would be as beautiful as your high school days. College, just like high school, also has lots of exciting and good things to offer. However, as students, you have to maximize the available opportunities. You have to be involved, take active participation, exert effort and utilize every chance at hand.

The two lines pre-drawn in the paper that you have received is very much similar to your wishes and the good things MCL could offer to you. The lines are the available opportunities and resources, already given, just within your reach. These opportunities also serve as raw materials for the realization of your wishes. Your effort to draw or form the best you could make out of the given lines is the act of maximizing these opportunities. See how beautiful and meaningful the figures or images you have formed out of the given lines. At first it seemed impossible, but with your will to bring out the best out of what is given, you were able to produce an image of the “Best” you want to project.

Life is what we make. The fulfillment of your wishes in college is a matter of choice, an effort to maximize the given opportunities and resources and the will to always give your best.