Saturday, August 29, 2009

Bachelor...Graduation...

Three years ago, graduation looks far away for me. It always seems so far away until my final semester started which was when I stopped my updates. All the while I have never given a thought about graduation, much less life after graduation.

My eyes were always set on two things; the stars in the night skies which make me a Trek fan and the computers that seems to give unlimited possibilities. I dreamed of getting to them and explore what lies beyond; I dreamed of creating systems which dwarves the giants. And so I focused my attention to books, internet, diagrams…anywhere where I can grab all the knowledge and understanding to fill the hunger for knowledge that burns in me since long ago. I’ve never been so obsessed on studying in my life until when I hit my first programming class. I’ve managed to maintain the momentum I’ve picked up and in the run; I studied the wonders of computer systems, understanding the working behind them and was awestruck by the ingenious solutions applied to cross thresholds in the advancement of computer technologies, all of them which I have been taken for granted all the while.

I tried my best to study, understand, and absorb all that is exposed to me. There are moments when I feel triumphant of my works, there are moments when I was paralyzed by my mistakes, there are moments when I feel friendship, there are moments when I feel lonely, there are moments when I fall in for someone, and there are moments of great disappointment that thrust me into a deepest week of my life; I tried to recover the worse and cherish the best moments and I move on.

My longing for friendship has brought me lots of people whom I call the friends and with my friends and mates, we have went through the worst and depressed moments, the happy and joyful moments which I would never had imagined I would’ve experienced has helped me through whatever that comes to me.

For the past three years,
I have been working my way up to my dream, which I doubt few have the privilege to do so
I have met classmates, course-mates, and friends which I spent my time with
I have moments of searching for a companion…

Three years, I worked as best as I could…
Three years of moments, joyful, motivated, surprised, stressful, down, depressed…
Three years, I have got myself through most that came to me…
Three years of bachelor life means a lot to me…

I had plenty of experience working for my Final Year Project. Excitement of a possible outcome, blunders that held back our process…although it wasn’t a success, but there are lessons learned, there are knowledge we will never grasp elsewhere.

All of these are part of my bachelor life, a savored memory in my life which I will always remember. Though in the end I have failed to reach my ultimate academic goal, but I do not regret my choice to walk this path where I have learned precious lessons which will guide me in the future.

Graduation is a milestone in my life;
It came and went as swift as the shooting stars,
It is the end and the beginning.
The moment my name was announced in the convocation,
I am summoned to the stage be granted my scroll,
I am graduated,
I am ready for the next journey.