TRES! Thank you, Lord!

Posted on Facebook last May 29, 2020. (https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeEngineer/photos/a.187660071884158/599392270710934/?type=3&theater)

Last week, I posted series of pictures of how engineering students (or even students from other courses I think?) feel about receiving TRES

(https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeEngineer/photos/a.187660071884158/592528684730626/?type=3&theater),

How the students feel when computing their target score for the finals to pass (https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeEngineer/photos/a.187660071884158/596730270977134/?type=3&theater),

And how they grow as they level-up from freshmen to senior students (https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeEngineer/photos/a.187660071884158/593791761270985/?type=3&theater).

Nakakatawa naman kasi talaga balik-balikan yun time na yun because almost all have experienced this at least once in their life! But it seems unfair also because some of our classmates are so talented that they understand the lessons in one seating! Then here we are, struggling to study and be disciplined enough to read through the notes and materials, pero wala.

Kaya, hello Youtube! Thanks to the Indian guys there discussing as if everything is so easy (https://www.facebook.com/YourLifeEngineer/photos/a.187660071884158/595769794406515/?type=3&theater)! Pero pag dating ng test, “Bakit ang layo pa din sa inaral ko!?” Then here come the grades, praying to every saint to help you pray to pass.

📌“𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑘𝑎ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜! 𝐵𝑎𝑤𝑖 𝑎𝑘𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑚!”

📌“𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑎𝑦𝑜𝑘𝑜 𝑛𝑎 𝑝𝑜 𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔! 𝑀𝑎𝑔-𝑎𝑎𝑦𝑜𝑠 𝑛𝑎 𝑝𝑜 𝑎𝑘𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑚!”

📌“𝑆𝑡. 𝐽𝑢𝑑𝑒! 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛!” (St. Jude is the patron saint for DESPERATE situations and HOPELESS cases😅)

Then grades are posted!

“!@#$%^&*! TRES!!! Thank you, Lord!”🙏

Yes, you passed! But the real question is,

“Did you really learn?”

Yes, grades may seem a reflection of how competent we are in that course if we will base it on our transcript. But grades do not define who we really are, right? Grades describe the journey, the life lessons, the people we were with, the struggles, the late-night studies, the group studies. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬.

Now, whenever I am with my classmates before, we don’t talk about

“naka-90 ako sa Thermo!”

“Naka 1.75 ako sa Kinematics!”

But we always talk about

“𝑁𝑎𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑛𝑦𝑜 𝑦𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝐽𝑢𝑎𝑛?”

“𝑁𝑎𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑛𝑦𝑜 𝑦𝑢𝑛 𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚 𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑔?”

“𝑁𝑎𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑙𝑎 𝑛𝑦𝑜 𝑦𝑢𝑛 𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑘𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑢𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑢𝑛 𝑠𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡?”

Because when we struggle, we learn more about ourselves. And that really matters the most! 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.

Once my child is struggling in school, I’ll tell him/her, “Anak, NUMBERS LANG YAN! Ang mas mahalaga, ikwento mo sakin mga struggles mo, sinu-sino mga nakilala mo along the way. at anu-ano mga ginawa mo para makabangon.