Footsteps rushing. Voices overlapping. People murmuring .
I hear these noises just a few feet away from the gate. As I enter, a sea of unfamiliar faces was scattered everywhere like spilled beans. I could break down because of shyness but I guess it’s too early for such hilarious embarrassment. Most of the people are socializing, while some are stunned and at a loss for their words just like me. Suddenly, the bell rang. I don’t know what just happened but it just came to my mind that it may be the sign that my High school life just started.
My Senior high school life started as I take up Science and Technology Engineering Mathematics, an academic strand that has been offered by my Alma Matter. STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications.
During the first day of my senior years, I met a bunch of new and friendly people, moreover, experienced totally brand new things. Life was way beyond compare.
So here I am now at the edge of the corridor, thinking, imagining and realizing that time won’t stop and I have to open new doors soon. College life awaits and all of those things I live in high school will just be another memory.
Another question pop-ups in my mind, “How would my strand reflects my College life ?” Actually, it’s totally an exciting new chapter of life. It’s just that college is more serious and involves great maturity. So as a STEM student, I would take up Civil Engineering so that I can apply my learning during my senior years. Especially that I have an engineer teacher way back then. He teach us the way the professors in college teach them, that’s why it was hard for us to cope up. I can apply x and y , sins, cosines , tangents and any other strange terms in science and mathematics. I would live life the way it is .
It is so unimaginable on how things went so fast. It was like yesterday,I saw a terrifyingly great number of odd faces of STEM students with the struggles.. Now those faces are the one whom I’m crying with because we have to go on
our separate ways.
To the STEM Republic, we will, beyond any doubt, reach for the stars but still won’t let go. We will hold on to the fantasies forever and cherish it for life. We should never forget each other and the foolish things we fancy most. We should always look back at the best years of our life where we learned how to work as if we don’t need the money; love like we’ve never been hurt before; and dance like nobody’s watching.
This is Joerylee Gallenero Palmerola, a STEM student, your future ENGINEER !
