MMMiii!

:D I’m only going to put this up for a day. XD

Tops wrote in his comment that I was brave to put up my grades here. I replied back that it just shows that even if you were a total failure at first, you can still succeed.

For those who don’t know, 1.00 is the highest, 3.00 is the lowest passing, 4.00 is conditional, 5.00 is fail. Inc is incomplete.

My first course or major was BS ECE (Electronics and Communications Engineering) at UP Diliman, College of Engineering. Out of the number of subjects I failed (did you count?) only 3 were not related to Engineering. I failed in PE because in the first one, my teacher disappeared for a while and when he came back, I got lazy to complete the requirements. In the second PE (FYI it was Walking for Fitness), I failed because I tripped and I kind of lost all will to attend the class which was at 8am, right before my Math 114 (Linear Algebra blah blah) which I had to take a Removal Exam for, and I got lazy as well, so my grade stayed conditional but I assume it has been registered as 5.00 by now.

A series of failures finally ended up with me getting dismissed from the College. There’s this rule that we have to pass 24 units each year. I could have easily shifted to Geodetic Engineering, but I knew that I didn’t want to deal with numbers anymore.

I’m sorry to those who think of me as honorable or dignified for having chosen to shift to Education. I shifted to Educ because people said that I’ll get accepted even if I didn’t meet the required grade to shift, which was just 2.75. My weighted average was below 3.00. I originally intended to shift to another course but my grades really won’t make.

I guess the person who really made me consider Educ was Noe, my classmate in all my high school years and my lunch mate until college. He shifted from BS Math (Bachelor of Science Major in Math) to BSEd Math (Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in Math). I shifted to BSEd English. I shifted to English even with the thought in mind that I will only have one semester worth of credited subjects. I started taking Educ subjects in my 4th year and officially shifted in my 5th year. The Maximum Residency Rule states that a student can only stay in the University for (the # of years of the program * 1.5). Since I shifted to a 4-year program, that meant I only had a year left.

Sadly, I wasn’t able to make the 6-year mark. I am already in my 7th year and I had to request an extension for my stay in the University.

If you didn’t count, I had 13 subjects failed. Although the 2 PE subjects don’t count in the final computation of grades, I still failed 13 subjects.

You’re probably agreeing with Tops, saying that I’m so brave to show to the whole world how much of a failure I am. But I’m going to point out that the very last grade I received in my undergraduate studies is a 1.00. :D And I did fairly well after I shifted.

The lesson? It has been quoted in several different ways.

“After the storm, there is sunshine.”

“Success is failure turned inside out.” - Don’t Quit

And so on.

“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.” - Abdul Kalam

This last one especially is true for me. I AM enjoying my success (finally) because I can say, “Aw MAN! Look at those grades! I was a total failure! But look! I still finished. I still succeeded.” Or something to that extent.

Don’t let failures faze you. The rode to success is always under construction. You can take detours too, but sometimes the detour takes a longer way.

I apparently tried to run my wheels until they got totally destroyed in that difficult road, so I got off and walked another way. I took a different path, I reached a different goal, but I still reached the end.

Am I gloating? Yes.

I’m damned proud of myself. After all those days of crying, now I can cry of happiness.

These are my grades from First Year to Seventh Year. The grades in red are the ones I failed. The one in darker red is the one I failed again.

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