The night rewinding

Dear High school senior, Hey, I'm going to give it to you straight my friend college is a completely different environment and a completely different way of learning. Like you may think that your high school class and what you learned in there will be the same as what you will be learning in college. This is false and I can tell you that from personal experience, this Communications class I'm taking is nothing like the public speaking class I took in high school I thought they were going to piggyback off each other but they don't at all two completely different types of classes. Oh, this a big one right here don't expect your college professors to be great teachers, don't get me wrong some are really great teachers like I wish they could teach all my classes but the principles of "academic freedom" encourage variation in college teaching. This means professors can teach however they want as long as they get the information to you. This could be just readi...

The border I crossed was a literal border, it wasn't imaginary or an invisible one this was a real border a border into another country. It's hard to believe how different a place can be but once you get there you see how different it is from the place you have lived for almost your whole life. The Philippines, my place of birth, my home, I left when I was about 2 so I don't remember much from there. But I know it will always be home and will always be a part of me. The summer before my senior year was the first time I was going to be home since I had left. The only bad part. about going home was the flight time. I think it was like 18 hours to South Korea and then another 5 hours to the Philippines but believe me, it was worth it. The Philippines a third world country is so different from the United States it's difficult to even explain really. But you'd never know the people in the city and on the islands lived in a third world country, anybody and everybody you t...