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The Calm Before the Storm

Today,  there weren't really any significant activities, it was a calm day and everyone are doing their own business. Then it hit us, sir rainier administered us a surprise quiz. This quiz caught everyone off guard, i was in the middle of testing out every tools and software that i will use to edit my video when this happened. Thankfully, it is a multiple choice quiz, but to be honest, that fact didnt help much since the quiz is quite difficult. Also, for some reason, some of us weren't able to make it in class, so no grade for them. I scored more than the passing grade, and its all that matters to me, it makes me wonder how i fared on mam olivar's exam. After the test,  sir rainier gave us time to do something about our video. I continued the progress of my script that i have been doing since yesterday. But now i was able to create a flowchart of the subtopics that i will be tackling in the video. Hopefully my output will actually let the viewers learn about spacial di...

Our place in space

Today was a good day,  mam olivar gave us an opportunity to start working on our topics for our instructional video. So i started drafting the flow of the video I'm about to make. Thankfully,  my topic is accepted, so theres no need for revision, for this project,  i decided to tackle one of the most mind boggling concept in physics,  and that,  is spacial dimensions. Since i was a kid,  ive been fascinated with the contents of our universe, and whether or not we see everything in our naked eye.  Dimensions are basically about the space something takes up, and space is where an objects have their definite position and direction, and it is also where events occur in a specific time. In my video,  i plan to go in depth with the spacial dimensions that we can perceive,  and dimensions that is way beyond our imagination. I started watching videos about spacial dimensions during our time,  so i can prepare myself better in the coming days...

The "Magic" behind illusions

Today is our second unit test, and it was something we never anticipated. The atmosphere in the class is as tense as ever as time ticks into 8am, everyone is gathering and memorizing every bits of information from previous discussions. Everyone was passing out notes, PPTs and were studying in a group, it is quite obvious that most of us didnt study prior to this day, myself included. It was a relief when the exam came around, we only had to make an outline of a certain literature and were done! Easy right? Just because its as simple as making an outline doesnt mean it doesnt come with various challenges, mam olivar didnt administer this as a unit test without a reason. We had to take in a myriad of information in a short amount of time, and make it without any erasures, with a limited space on a single short bond paper, so we basically have to shorten pages of literature into one. This exam is proved to be a daunting task, but a relevant one. My memory of the article is a little ...

Inside my Bubble

Comfort is something we always sought as human beings, even our technological efforts are meant to give us at least some convenience, hence, making our lives less tedious and more comfortable. In the era of technology, i always noticed that people are willing to sacrifice security in favor favor of convenience, and most aren't even aware of this. As a teacher, i wanted keep my student informed about every negative aspect of technology. Today wasn't that bad, it seems like a good break from everything that is happening lately in our academic lives. And of course, mam Olivar, being as firm as ever, marked everyone that are not in class the moment she went in as absent. I this this is a good exercise for all of us, my classmates may not appreciate much of it, but i believe this kind of enforcement will positively influence our performance in the future, we will learn to always get in time, the "Filipino time" mentality became a toxic behavior among Filipinos, this is s...

Curiosity

Not everyone knows about this, but one of my obsession are celestial bodies beyond our own planet. The curiosity rover landed on mars back in 2012. Since then, it has discovered traces of substances that made life on earth possible. Which led scientists to speculate that mars wasnt such a barren planet back then, this discovery opened the door to a myriad of possibilities, we even considered living on that planet, a feat that no one thought was possible. This is the day of our presentation, our topic is a surveying polls, quizzing and testing tool. Surveys are a fundalmental part of any research, everything that you'll ever find out and may discover lies on every data you collect and how you interpret it. For years this has become a repeated cycle, every day we are improving the works of the ones that came before us, making them more refined, and efficient. So it is equally important to be able to organize every data that you collect. Technology improves every day, so does the to...

The Lazy Cow

I once read about this one korean folktale many years ago, it was about a boy in a farm who never wanted to do any work and gets annoyed whenever his parents asked him to work. He dreamed of just being a cow,  laying down all day in the grass and not doing a thing. One day,  he got fed up and ran away,  he met a man selling masks, the man made the boy wear a mask which turned him into a literal cow,  he was sold to a farmer and was put to rigorous farm work. Eventually, the boy came back to his human self, realised all of his wrongdoings in the past and never became lazy again. Today,  one of the "lazy cow" in our class got the scolding he deserved.  Mam olivar reminded me of that mask seller who taught the boy a moral lesson. She lectured everyone who came in late today, which makes sense because as a teacher, we cant afford to be late in class, I make it a habit to come to school an hour and a half early. were supposed to become role models,  som...

Judgement Day

Most religions have their perspective about this sacred day,  most noteably,  the christian belief that jesus will come down here and judge humanity based on their belief and actions. The judgement day is yet to come and no one knows for sure when, or if this will happen at all. Judgement days are more frequent in college, or in any level of education, it comes in a form of a summative assessment. Weeks of rigorous lectures and studies all comes down to this, the ultimate test whether we actually learned something, or our brain remained stagnant in the past few weeks. I didn't feel like i prepared enough for this day,  but I have no choice, i a test to inform myself what i lacked and what i have to improve on I think i did fairly well,  but all hell broke loose when i saw the last page...my mind was not ready for this,  i wasn't able to read much about the CMO, which is probably the worse sin i could commit in this course.  I felt devastated,  i ha...