Senior Year is Here

Thank God!!! Finally, I am already a senior. I can’t believe how time flies so fast. I can still remember the memories that I have during my senior year in high school. The people and all the happenings are still quite fresh in my mind. It feels like yesterday and now it is my senior year again. But now it’s college.

It was almost four years ago when I was only a dreamer. I dream of making it to the University and be among the “cream of the crop” and share the prestige and the privilege with the others on bearing the name of University of the Philippines. I just can’t believe that that dream has come true. I was lucky to be among the “chosen ones” to think that I am not really the genius type back in high school. I was lucky that compared to my classmates who were “up there”, I was chosen to be a UPian and they are not. I was very proud of myself and I am proud that I have made my parents so happy.

But my first three years in college is not that easy. Problems have abounded ever since I started college, my family’s life is not so easy. We have faced financial problems that we have to sacrifice some of our needs and we have to make do of whatever we have. I can’t just buy stuff that I need immediately because I have to budget the allowance that my parents gave me for the whole week. Without the help of some of our relatives, maybe I could have stopped studying and just work so that my siblings could study. I am really proud of my parents for their perseverance and self-sacrifice so that me and my siblings will all continue to study. Sometimes, I do feel guilty that I cannot do anything to help my parents. All I could do is study hard and strive for my best.

I am excited but somewhat afraid on what may happen after this academic year. I will soon be graduating (hopefully!!!) and finally be facing the real world. I have to look for jobs in order to help my family and also for my personal gain.

Before I finish, I want to look back on the years that have been. I want to look on how far I have gone so far. I want to look on the things that I was able to accomplish. I want to look on the people that I have met along the way and the friends that I was able to have.