I am back to being a freshman. And like any other freshmen, I had this sort of oh-no-what-should-I-expect-from-this-subject feeling on my first day in school. I enrolled by myself for graduate school so I had this feeling that I am just all alone. Remember your first day in school? Remember when you were a new student? You don’t know anyone. You just sit there in a corner, waiting for someone to approach you or thinking about how to approach the person in front of you. I really don’t like that feeling and fortunately, it didn’t last until I saw a familiar face.

My old college classmate is enrolled in the same subjects that I am taking. We were both delighted to see each other again after all these years. And what made us more giddy is that we both experienced the same thing in the last three years: failures, rejections, and the like. It’s nice to have someone who underwent the same experience as you did. It’s like you found someone who could understand you because he or she had the same situation.

So, anyway, I attended my first day (or should I say night since it is a night class) in graduate school last Saturday. Our first subject was Statistics. That’s my only class for that day but I decided to enroll another subject when I learned from my classmates that they have another subject on Saturday apart from Statistics. Since I’m free on Saturdays, I enrolled in the Pedagogy class. So starting tomorrow, I’ll be attending two classes.

Yesterday, I attended another class, my Nursing Theory class. And I was like, “Oh no. Here we go again with the theories!” Our professor is old so we have to sit close to her because she speaks softly. When our class ended, she gave us topics that we will report next week. Grr. I hate reporting but I like the topic that was given to me. It’s about Human to Human Relationship Model. It’s about giving sympathy and empathy to our patients to be able to build a rapport with them. I think it’s easy because as you all know, that is what I usually blog about here – treating the patients right.

So this is really it. I am back to school. I am working as a part-time English teacher. I wonder if I can handle this all… I hope so!