Flooded Mailbox

and my french-loving, rizal-lambasting sem has come to an end. the only thing i have to worry now is again, boredom, but as i dug into the flooded recesses of my cyber mailbox, i realized it wouldn't be a very monotonous sembreak after all.

let's start with the cheating anomaly that sprouted in the midst of our otherwise impeccable batch. an issue is currently circulating around about the cheating incidence during an exam for a business administration subject, coincidentally entitled "Law on Business Transactions"... would you believe that? cheating under the law? haha. but seriously, it is a very defaming, if not plainly controversial, matter as it happens in the school of economics, the center for excellence in economics in the philippines. and as i heard it, one of the cheaters is actually a candidate for a summa cum laude! how bugging is that?? does this mean she kept an impeccable gwa buy stuffing cheat sheets under her jacket while taking an exam? my, what a bummer. anyways, as for the exam, it had to be retaken to maintain consistent and un-cheated test scores.

this issue has been promoted into the internet by the enraged students (who had to retake the exam thanks to the cheaters). it's a cyber word-war out there. hate mails, appeals, and calls to whistle-blow keep coming by the minute. meanwhile, the effect on me of the whole incident is... a very crowded mailbox. what a messy messy issue that our school (and my email) had to be involved with. this has to be cleared at once, before things get dirtier and reach the disciplinary tribunal.

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another thing thats gonna keep me busy this sembreak is the editing of the yearbook writeups. you see, as the associate editor of the graduating batch's yearbook, one of my main tasks is to put all feature write-ups into final drafts before they are layouted. since there are only two people in the very efficient editorial board who are concerned with the write-ups (me and lex, the features ed), final editing will come really hard. there are almost 120 econ students in our school, each of which will pass 2 write-ups, leaving the two of us 120 testimonials each to edit. the thing is, not even a third of the batch has submitted their write-ups yet. we're not only under pressure of time and under-capacity, deadlines are also posing a nuisance. our penalties are not working, instead they became perverse incentives; people started thinking they could afford to submit write-ups late. why? because they'd only lose Php10 a day from the pockets. and hell these people are pooping pesos from behind, if you know what im mean. tsk. ah these people.

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third, i must also exercise my charming abilities, as i will be soliciting for three different activities this sembreak: 1) the publishing of the yearbook 2) the publishing of the school paper and 3) the raising of funds for the council. god, where will i get all the money??

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and lastly, there's an impending planning sem for the yearbook editorial board, but there's no fixed date yet. tsk.

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k. thats all for now. i'll just check if there are new hate mails on the batch egroup. ;p

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