MSUan: Enrollment Day

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After all the grumbling and tight squeezing-in trip. I thought I've passed the Lion's den already. I thought it was the last difficult maneuver I will ever perform during the entire enrolment process. I thought I would be able to get home early. I thought climbing on wall was off the board idea. I thought it would be peaceful and orderly.

But, literally! Take note! I took this on a literal way. It was the only enrollment process where military officers are on every angle of the building. Something very scary for an 18year old freshman. Thought that was the last tight and squeezy maneuver after the long trip to MSU? But believe me, I dont know how others were able to manage it, maybe by religiously falling on the long snake line? But I literally climbed on the wall (this was on the Admin building) just to know if my name has been called already or if my form was missing or something. You'd think falling in line was the right and proper way to do it? But if you look at the head of the line? Guess what?! No line!!! I told myself "patay tong naa sa linya..." There's no more line. Instead of people lining-up, it was the papers of those selfish students who didn't care to fall in line. I don't want to do the monstrous-criminal act and voilate the golden rules, I don't even want to be in trouble if I'm caught by the seniors; but I really have to do it, you have to be creative,somehow innovative and add a little mixture of acting!(guilty?) Bang!-chook!-boom!I did it! I felt like I was agent Oso from playhouse disney, I remembered.After successfully doing my criminal act.I took a quick snap on whats inside the rear bar windows. And Lo and behold, there's only one employee doing the receipts against the 200-300 hoards angry-hungry-sweating student. Ironic, right! What's making it more ironic was that inside the office?! Two big industrial fan - refreshing employees from the humid day. Plus you bet!1 or 2 employees are playing "solitaire" on their computers, some are having chitchat-backfiring, some are throwing jaw-breaking jokes (not so funny jokes though). Hmmmmp... What is this? This is a real picture of corruption, greed, and hypocrisy. But I wouldn't generalized all of these employees because for sure there are good soldiers on this band of brothers, I told myself. Maybe I'm just a little too observant of what's going on or what I've seen, or maybe I was just too conclusive of what I've seen.  At 11am I'm done. Done on the second step. Lol!

I met my sister's boyfriend for the first time. He was a Maranao. A good looking, nice guy. His name was Pawas- if my memory still serves me right. With him was his kababata best friend (I can't remember the name.) They both assisted me on the whole enrollment process. We went to the University Infirmary. What could be that place, I asked myself (haven't heard the word infirmary before). They said that I should prepare myself for the one big surprise inside the Infirmary. Alright! Infirmary was a clinic! So I already have an idea, that I'd be taken samples of all sorts. While I was filling up the forms. I heard from not so far conversation of the newbies like me, One said,"We were asked to remove our pants, shirts, and even undies, and were asked to bend-over."

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"Shooot! I cant do this", I told myself. I thought that it's gonna be between going back to Pagadian or face this not so challenging scenario of my MSU moment. My companion said that I wont be an MSUan if I wont go through it. So, I went on. I think there were 6-8 of us who were asked to enter what they call the excludive zone. Left side are for ladies and the other side are for men. "Tangalin ang inyong mga suot",said to one employee who claimed to be a doctor- you can tell that he's just one ordinary man inside the room becuase of his dark complexion and his missing tooth in-front of his mouth. One newbie asked if we also have to remove our undies (good thing I wore my new under-ware, or else I am a dead meat). Fainted, shakey both legs and hands, I slowly remove my underware, and from there? The show started. Yes! We were asked to face Left, then right, then back, and yes the famous position - bend over. The show only lasted like 3-5minutes, but for me it's like an hour or more, t'was fun! Good thing there were no gays around (crossing two fingers- who knows) . Ok, alright, let's end this part and move the clock at 4pm.

At that time we called it a day. We went to the grandstand and the rotonda area and met friends and Kabs.

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The next day, we went into the forestry area and had the all time MSU favorite "Pater" with matching "palapa". Got it for the first time and I immediately loved it. Guess we were meant to be. I finaly decided to take Accountancy as my course and was even the first student accepted on that day. I've got COR printed, I thought Jessie Silang was a Man. But I was told that Jessie Silang the Registrar head was a lady. Ok! So I moved on! Got 27units, they said its over loaded already. But that was fine, "I told myself." (Not knowing that this will falter  my accounting dream.- sad)

It was still early that time, so we hit the road (literally) around the campus. We head to Agakhan Museum 

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Stayed at the campus for another day and shoot ourselves back home.

Peace sa mga Guilty




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MSUan Story: MSU - Freshmen's first trip to MSU

MSU - Freshmen's first trip to MSU

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I've passed the MSU SASE, it was under the Baccalaureate category and I thought I was scholar then. My sisters who were both graduate from this school convinced me to study on their beloved Alma-Mater.

After thorough study and careful analogy and the convincing power of my ate’s. I finally decided to try MSU.

Shoooot I go!

Packed my favorite shirts and pants. Brought with me my 2 pairs of shoes, including my new old school converse shoes- Gift from my papa. And to my excitement I almost forgot to bring my SASE result- Yay! At last I'm all set! I've got 2 bags full of my belonging and of course my Php2, 500 pocket money. It was the largest sum of money I'd got that time- so innocent.

We got in to the Rural Transit bus (the official bus of an MSUan) at around 7am, not sure how long the ride will take me to the Promised Land. Hay! On the way to MSU (Pagadian to ILigan, Iligan to MSU) had been so tiring-sweating, squezzy moment. Never thought that my ride Iligan to MSU is a little more different than any ride in my life.

At the terminal people are starting to talk like meranao, jeepney barker is talking in a meranao accent, ladies are all wrapped up. Each passenger student had their 1 to 4 bags on their side. The atmosphere was so different. At 4pm in the Tambo terminal (please correct the old terminal name), Jeepnies were suddenly gone. Making all students go into panic. No single jeepnies were available, sigh... I’m giving-up already! Suddenly, one not so far from where I was standing, -an old but not so new jeep just came in and all passengers on standby were all ramping up on the jeep.

Alas! I was so quick to get in, got the 3 seats reserved, one for me and two of my sisters. But got no space of our bags. So we had to put it on our legs and knees. No later than 5mins the jeep was all packed- packed like a "Young Town's Sardines." Wheeew! That was fast. Can't imagine how difficult it was. Asked my sister how much was the fare was and was told 20.00 pesos only. One pretty looking Maranao lady seating at the farthest end of the jeep was shouting at someone - I don’t care, can’t understand what she was talking, can’t even turn my body to check what it was. Suddenly everyone is complaining, to our surprise the driver or the collector, I don’t who it was, was asking for 40 pesos fare. Huh! Not fair! 100% price up. Grrrrrrh! Unacceptable for a student who only had Php2, 500 on his pocket! I still have to spend this money for my tuition, board and lodging and all those good stuff I needed. We can only complain but the jeep won’t go if we don’t pay the 100% price up. Haaarsh- clever.

My tummy starts to ache. Hmmm... Skies getting darker and its starting to rain! Can't breathe much. Everything was so so so tight. “Hey driver let's go already”! Shouted to one of the passenger. Not less than an hour-off we go to the Promised Land. The hoodlum looking Driver - long beard, dark complexion, short, savvied mustache, with one big brown mole on the left part of the nose (guess who?) dropped us for a while in gasoline station; I can’t get out of the jeep to stretch my legs and back. After a while we head to our way to Marawi - the Islamic city of the Philippines. I was already thinking of good possible thing in MSU. How my life could be. Night life, shopping’s, good food, and all. But! Naahh, forget it. It's the other way around. Never thought I was on the other part of the Philippines.

Though tight and squezzy, everybody took an opportunity to take a nap and rest. Now the scrambling and irritated passengers are all if not in sigh... Suddenly, after all the quick turns from here and there, the reckless driver squeezed the foot break! Squeaked! Everybody was awakened and all got the attention of a check-point. "Lahat nang mga lalaki baba!" What? I can’t even move my leg and now we have to move out. Grrrrrhh! "para sa security lang po ito lahat". It was the Philippine Military. Ok were still able to manage to move out and back in the jeep... At least I was able to stretch my back and move my knees for a quick minute.

Not far away, another check point! Again? Everybody complaining. This time it’s no longer the Philippine Army but to my surprise, it was the MILF. Scared and shaky. We are all asked to come out of the jeep. "Pra sa security lang po, Lahat nang mga lalaki baba!" Is this really for real? Ok if this is just normal, then fine. If you would count there were like 10-15 check points, but luckily not all required us to move out of the jeep. My sister told me that we are almost there because of the banners anywhere. She said it’s also called the Banners and streamer capital of the Philippines. It was right and justified since almost all the corners of the street streamers and banners of all kinds and to your surprise it’s all in neon colors.

The air is now cool and of course you can really compare the humidity in ILIGAN city. Almost there! Marawi city dito lang, the not so good looking driver said. Naks! No one dropped off the jeep. All are for MSU campus.

At last! Welcome to the world of MSU- Marawi main campus. Got a quick turn on the campus. King Faisal was the first college on the road. followed by the Forestry and the rest.

Got off from the jeep and walked for a while again bringing with me my bags. I've noticed my legs are shaking maybe because of the long-squeeze trip. My converse shoes looks like ukay2x already. Off we go to Adiong Apartment. D4 it was!!!

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