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Technically, I’m still a student, but I’m also a teacher already. Sometimes I see things in my students that I used to do or be and I realize that nothing much has changed from when I was in high school.

Last Friday, I spent about 10 minutes discussing the first act of The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare and they were talking about the contents of sparknotes and enotes, and even cliffnotes. I told them they should read the book because I’m going to ask very specific questions as well.

When I was younger, I almost never read the required books. I also read just the ones online. I read various essays and reviews and analyses on the book I had to read. I never read Romeo and Juliet. I never read The Iliad nor The Odyssey. I never read Beowulf nor Canterbury Tales. I never read Noli Me Tangere nor El Filibusterismo completely, because I had a Gabay sa Pag-aaral (Study Guide) of it.. I never read the long version of Florante at Laura nor Ibong Adarna, because I had a comic version of those. I never read Flowers for Algernon, Killing Time in a Warm place, and another book out of the 4 for Soc Sci I. I read Old Man in the Sea though, plus booknotes. I got two 95s and 2 98s for the book analyses.

Anyway, while I was looking through my website statistics, I saw that a lot of my recent traffic is from searching Dulaang UP’s As You Like It. Students, like how I used to be, were probably required to write a paper on it. So they are searching reviews of it online.

Good thing there’s nothing to quote from me since I didn’t really say anything substantial in my review of Dulaang UP’s As You Like It, since in my whole stay in UP (7 years), I’ve only seen like 4 plays, so there isn’t much to compare. Either way, it’s good!

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