The Grad School Diaries: Episode 10 - Even the cards says it so

Unlike majority of my friends in graduate school, I went to graduate school out of a whim. I used to reason out that it’s probably to cure my quarter-life crisis, take a break from city life, figure out and decide what I want to do in life while getting additional education, nurse a broken heart and so on. Two years later, I finally know why I moved back.

I always say that I owe graduate school so much. And even though I only took it out of a whim ( because majority of the people I know wanted to get the degree to get promoted), I found my self drawn to it.  Right now, I really want to earn it and finish the degree, because I feel that, after the personal turmoils that I’ve encountered this past few months, it’s one of the only thing that I can call my own. It gives me a sense of ownership that as much as I want to get the degree, I also want to stay. I like being a student. I like juggling work and school, I like rushing to school and attend classes, see and meet new friends.  Everything that I did not do while I was still in college I was able to do it in graduate school. I never wanted to be in a school newspaper in college, before I knew it, I was the culture editor of UPLB Perspective last year. I don’t like being one of the class officers because I like having my own life, before I knew it, I am already the secretary of a graduate school association.

Lots of things are happening beyond my control. Being in graduate school taught me how to be patient and how to let go and let things fall right into place. My journey from the time that I got my letter of admission to graduate school two years ago until now is a clear proof of how if you will only let God, he will take care of you because he knows better.