WHEN IT'S NOT ROUGH IT ISN'T FUN

Okay! Hello blogging world! It’s been a long time since I did this. :))

I made this blog specifically to record my JTA experience… Hmm… Come to think of it, I should have started earlier in order to fully capture the whole experience x.x But oh well!

Let me just summarize it!

Pre-JTA was divided into 3:
1. Application
2. Choosing of the destination school
3. JTA Sem 1

Application:
- Mr. Ang’s sweet talkin’ did the trick. I never really wanted to go JTA at the first place. But he was so convincing! :))
- The application process was quite simple, we just needed to pass a bunch of papers but waiting was the worse part. We had to stalk the SOM bulletin board for 2 weeks just to know if we were accepted (Right Elie? haha!)
-The list went out minutes before our Law Midterms. Wrong timing. I was too excited to focus on the test x.x

Choosing of the destination school
- It was according to the ranking you got. Higher ranked people got to choose their schools first. I was ranked… uhm… 70 something, I think (ok, I’m very forgetful x.x). I think it was an okay rank, out of I think around 200.
- Schools are flashed in the OHP and crossed out each time a student takes it.
- I didn’t know where I wanted to go until the moment Mr. Ang called my name :|
Me: (OMG, where should I go?? China? US? China? US?)
Mr. Ang: Ong, Fiona
Me: uuuuhhhhhmmm….. (HOOMAAAGOOSSH! DECIDE NOW!)
Me: uhh… University… of San Francisco
Me: (it’s a sign. it’s directly in front of me)
Mr. Ang: Okay. The tuition paying slot?
Me: NO! haha!
Mr. Ang: Kanina ang tagal mag-isip pero dito instant ah :))

JTA Sem 1
- One word: HELL.
(6 hour breaks, 7:30AM Law classes with recit and quizzes the day after a Marketing class until 8:00PM, going home everyday around 9PM, Philo readings and more readings, Marketing Paper Passes, WACs, Finance Paper and more papers, and more Labor Law readings and more, lots more)

Only one thing helped me survive… our JTA-LM Block.

They are the ones who made the whole thing bearable. Without them, I don’t know what would’ve happened to me :| And actually, because of them, I can already say that JTA is already worth it from this point. With lovable characters such as Santis and Jerinae, our amazing amazing professors, movie nights, baboy sessions, card games, and not to mention all our KFM questions.. everything. I will never be able to experience having an air-conditioned classroom as your bahay in Ateneo, have the Danny Chan and de Vera experience with the kind of chemistry our class has, the solidarity, the love, the feeling of family.

Hmm… I think I can end with that note :) A quick summary of my JTA experience so far.

To all you guys, I just want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH! From the bottom of my heart, I am truly lucky and grateful to have this bunch as my block >:D<

To my Marketing group mates, THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!!! Live Life Live! I can truly say everything paid off at the end. And not only for that, but you were there for me during my low days. Alam niyo na kung kailan yun, haha! Basta, thank you so so much! 

To my non-JTA blockmates, I MISS YOU GUYS!!! Dinner please before we leave :(

To my other friends, LABAN LANG! If you think school is tough right now, just remember, we’ve been through worse, and we made it. Kaya niyo rin yan! :)


7 days.

7 daaaaaaaayyyyysssssss