a blog of a consecutive dean's lister boy

Hello, guys. Here is me, writing my third blog for November. Since I want to maintain the consistency of publishing, I decided to set a goal of 4-8 blogs per month. It is my way to balance all the things that I need to do, especially since I'm going to enter the second sem of being a second-year college student. I'm also interested in earning more money since our expenses are not going to be a joke. This blog is just my sentiment as a consecutive DL boy.

Since July, I have decided to keep silent from publishing blogs. There's an instance where I thought of not writing any blog for four straight weeks. I felt that I could finally break my record for the 23rd day without publishing, but this phase is way more terrible. I have a lot of things that I'm continuously solving in front of my table while I'm also thinking about how I would earn additional money, considering that my allowance is not enough to satisfy my needs.

During our prelims, I focused more on slaying my exams. I have this silent battle where I keep thinking that I could improve more if I didn't make that mistake during my past quizzes. Sorry for showing my competitive side. That's why I felt that doing my overall best in the exam would be my biggest weapon since it is 40% of our grades. Good thing that I did. Imagine your instructor announcing that you scored the highest in all five exams. It was so satisfying!

This achievement led me to be the highest in three of our majors while I got second to the best in our minor subject with overall BSBA students. I realized I wasn't dreaming but living my dream. The results of the overall ranking were not revealed, but imagine the power that I hold. Of course, I keep it low-key with my relatives and keep to be humble. However, since I got the best grade, it is a sign that I can't escape the responsibility of being a leader.

Throughout the whole semester, I have led three projects. If I were not mistaken, here are those:

• Product Plan
• Product Exhibit
• Marketing Plan
• Case Study
• Narrative Report and Sales Report (Groupings)
• Promotional Ads

The midterms and finals taught me that it's more important to pass than to achieve a high grade. Having this responsibility always gives me a lot of stress since it stretches my social and writing skills. Although I faced numerous hardships, I am grateful to have achieved a 1.46 GPA this semester, which brings me to my dream validation for Dean's lister.

On the other hand, I hope that I was able to do or discover these things before they become a regret. Here are those regrets:

• I wish I delegated their tasks appropriately. During our midterms and finals, I recently discovered that I failed to track the deadlines that I gave to my groupmates. I also was unable to work under pressure, considering that I needed to juggle two groupings in a limited time in addition to quizzes and exams. If I had only recorded their performance, maybe I would not have crammed, and I would still have been able to maintain my grades. Nonetheless, I have already learned from my lessons.
• I wish I printed my reviewers. If I just printed my reviewers in advance, I think I could do more. Like a few weeks ago, we had a common final examination in six subjects ranging from items up to 100. I only wrote all the things that I needed to review and realized that it was only nonsense since I was running out of time. Imagine you are running out of time to review your 50-page reviewers, and you still choose to write it rather than print it. I was sharing my stupidity.

That's all, thanks for reading. The most important thing is that I've learned my lessons.

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