Hi, Lance! Looks like you've had a really tiring week. I hope you're doing okay :)
I have a request, and I'm not sure how you can fit this into your schedule. This semester, I have a whole bunch of MBB undergrads dumped into my English 10 class. And when I say a bunch, they comprise almost 90% of the class. The class being English 10, I'm supposed them to write academic papers (reports, reaction papers, research paper, etc.). But I have absolutely no idea how MBB students go about this. This is where you come in. Could you spare some of your precious time to come to my class and talk about how you wrote your papers when you were an undergrad? And if possible, may I see some of the papers you made? What citation style did you use? Sorry for the trouble ha! Lost lang talaga ako :(
Razeru, I hope you got my email, with a copy of my undergrad thesis and the MBB Undergrad Thesis Writing Guide attached.
MBB students are fun and noisy! Enjoy the teaching experience. You won't have a hard time with them—they're so grade-conscious you can make them do anything.
Rare are the afternoons when I have idle time for myself. But yesterday was something else. There arrived an unexpected blessing—a pocket of sweet time when I had nothing to do. As soon I parked the car, I greeted my mother in her room, interrupting her Netflix viewing. I headed out to the living room. The sun was glorious but not scathing. Photographers call the late tropical afternoons the golden hour. I went back to my desk to grab the camera, whose existence I only recall when I travel. I jolted Paul from his nap. "Dali na!" I said. He yawned, stretched, and trailed me. After three years, we've figured out his body language. He was waiting for a treat, a belly rub, or some play time that involves an old tennis ball—or all of the above. "Hulat lang, Paul, ha?" I speak to him like I would to a three-year old. Nanay's small garden is a place of tranquility. You'd hear birds chirping. You'd see nests on top of the tree. They must feel saf...
I know. I don’t post here as often as I should. When I do, I hardly write anything at all. I post fillers: random photos of my daily grind; quotations from books and articles I like to commit to memory; summaries of my meditations; epiphanies and random links to miscellaneous items I hope to return to but don’t. When I scroll through my blog history, I’m surprised that I’d posted about a film I would have otherwise forgotten if I hadn’t written about it in the recent past. In the early days of this blog I wrote many entries each month. There were years when I’d post something daily. It was fun. Updating blogger.com was enmeshed in my routine as toothbrushing; my day wouldn’t be complete without it. And then I gradually skipped it. The short of it is: life happened. And the internet became a dangerous place. I became more mature and private, relishing the absence of web footprint, while the world—including my circle of family, friends, and acquaintances—was only discovering the joys ...
May 30, my parents’ wedding anniversary, a date on the calendar we still celebrate, seven years after Tatay has passed on. In my mind—in my family’s mind—Tatay’s memory is alive. We speak about him, in random circumstances. Over dinner, for example. And my faith tells me: he is alive, in the fellowship of saints in heaven, laughing and singing and feasting and supremely enjoying the presence of God. I imagine him looking down, saying, “Dali na kamo diri. Kadugay sa inyo.” But the last days of May found us in a plane, from General Santos, with a brief stopover to Manila that would take us to Busuanga. If you’d spotted us at NAIA, you would have noticed Manong and me, holding on to our mother in laughter, provoking her with random comments that got her riled up; or, more correctly, she holding on to us, complaining about her eyeglasses that still give her trouble with depth perception. She is adorable. She is getting older. We make most of our time to take her aro...
Hi, Lance! Looks like you've had a really tiring week. I hope you're doing okay :)
ReplyDeleteI have a request, and I'm not sure how you can fit this into your schedule. This semester, I have a whole bunch of MBB undergrads dumped into my English 10 class. And when I say a bunch, they comprise almost 90% of the class. The class being English 10, I'm supposed them to write academic papers (reports, reaction papers, research paper, etc.). But I have absolutely no idea how MBB students go about this. This is where you come in. Could you spare some of your precious time to come to my class and talk about how you wrote your papers when you were an undergrad? And if possible, may I see some of the papers you made? What citation style did you use? Sorry for the trouble ha! Lost lang talaga ako :(
Razeru, I hope you got my email, with a copy of my undergrad thesis and the MBB Undergrad Thesis Writing Guide attached.
DeleteMBB students are fun and noisy! Enjoy the teaching experience. You won't have a hard time with them—they're so grade-conscious you can make them do anything.
"..they're so grade-conscious you can make them do anything" - hahaha, seems like I was wrong to think that MBB was overrated.
Deletefor me it was always ligo vs kain vs tulog. of course, ligo always prevailed haha.
ReplyDeleteAte, ikaw ay isang huwarang nilalang.
DeleteMike, I was like them once.
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