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hi po!! incoming grade 11 here, at nakapasa po ako sa entrance exam ng regional science highschool malapit dito saamin. di ko nga po alam kung paano ako nakapasa kasi weakpoint ko talaga yung math at ung pagsosolve. sobrang grateful na nakalusot nga ako sa slot eh haha

malapit na po ang simula ng school year, at natatakot lang ako dahil sa mga nababasa ko tungkol sa mga experiences ng nasa science high dito sa subreddit na ito. galing rin po ako sa private school which i can only say was mediocre in the way they teach, at bukod d'yan englishera pa ako na hindi masyadong marunong magtagalog.

in junior highschool, i only really locked in during grade 9 to 10. for context, i ended the year being apart of the top of my class. but i never joined competitions, or extracurriculars. with that, i feel like i can do way more this year.

yung goal ko po sa incoming school year ay mag-step out sa comfort zone ko. kahit sci high, gusto ko talaga mag-excel pa 'rin haha. maybe those hopes will be crushed once i actually start going there, but i'll try my best!

i'm sorry for making you read that long rant, but ultimately i wanted to ask for anyone's advice.
- in the next 2 weeks before school starts, what can i do now to prepare?
- how can i best adjust to the new environment and culture shock?
- hearing that there workload is way heavier, do you have advice in surviving?
- what can i do to excel in academics, extracurriculars, and much more?

thank you po!

A little background so my research teacher all told us all to be ready on Wednesday at 3-5pm for a final presentation.

Fast forward to Wednesday it is 3:50pm and my professor still hasn't shown up and is instead in the office talking with colleagues. My group members who have begun to become impatient after messaging the professor if the meeting was being continued and getting no response from the professor on the GC. After waiting for the professor for almost an hour and the professor still hasn't shown up decided to leave as they thought the professor won't show up( there's also supposedly a grace period in the campus as in where if the professor fails to show up within 15-20 minutes of class time we are allowed to leave )

My professor finally showed up at 4:15pm and most group members were ready except mine who already left and I ended up getting a 0 score on the presentation because my group members with the laptop weren't there.

I feel as if I should take it all out on my group after all I was dragged into their mess, but I know they were just tired of waiting for the professor who STRICTLY said 3-5pm on Wednesday. I tried to talk to my professor about how my group members thought the presentation was postponed however he did not care and gave me and my group members all 0.

However I still don't know if I am really in the right about this but I felt as if he was being too harsh not to mention my professor has already shown he hates our class and insults us about it.

My school to charges me 50 - 100 pesos for not attending school events held by my school clubs (they charge me that range amount for each club event I’d been absent for). I hold myself accountable for not joining, because I do admit that I do get lazy to join these events, and I’m not really interested to participate. These events do require attendance, but for years, they never charged 50- 100 pesos. It’s not even stated in the student handbook that they charge for absences during these events. I do get why they’re charging, but I don’t get the fact why at an amount like that. Mind you that my school charges 100-300 pesos for club fees (100-300 pesos for EACH club btw) during enrollment, then 50-100 pesos for the club events. So in my perspective, I feel at a loss, because I’d already paid for those fees, and they end up charging me with this amount because I didn’t attend it.

I will be using it mainly for:
- NOTES and reviewing (smooth and doesn’t lag)
- watching youtube (wide and clear screen i got blurry vision)
- can use ms office/google workspace

Listing down pros and cons would be helpful too.

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My sister is going to school in Cebu. My parents pay for her groceries, utilities, and rent (everything). On top of that, she has a weekly allowance of 5k.
Despite that, she asks up to 2k more weekly and even an additional 500 per day sometimes cause she says it's not enough.

Because of this, my parents are barely making ends meet, and we're having to adjust/lower all our expenses so that they can fund hers. I'll be going to college soon and as my own expenses start to go higher, I'm worried if my parents can fund both of us or not.

I wanna know if the expenses in Cebu are really that expensive for her to be asking almost 30k on just allowance alone.

My friend kind of called me out by saying that I always have a comment/reaction after someone says something. 😭 Though it's not that I interrupt them, but the moment they finish talking, my brain instantly has something to say, like an observation, related experience, reaction, etc. It's like I never really run out of things to say.

The thing is, I don’t think I do it because I don’t care about other people. If anything, I get too engaged. I also spend most of my time alone (since I'm just living by myself here in the Philippines) and dealing with my own thoughts, so when I'm around friends I become way more hyper and talkative than I normally am.

Now I'm wondering if this is some form of being self-centered, or if I just don't know how to regulate my conversational energy properly. Though I do think that I might just ask my doctor to put me back on meds, as I noticed when I'm on meds that's when I'm more on the quiet side.

my bf is graduating soon and nakapagpa-grad pic na sya, but i wasn’t able to join him kasi may exam ako that day 😿 gusto ko sana na may shoot kami with him wearing his toga (aside from his actual grad day, ofc.) any studio recommendations in/near Manila that could cater this? bale no solo pics na, just the two of us then may available na toga for him. yung mga nakikita ko kasi, you have to avail the full package. thanks !!

edited to add loc (Manila, or near Manila)

Idk if it's just me pero I really want to be alone for college. I'm an incoming freshman and a few months pa pasukan namin, pero I keep seeing rants and posts about how necessary talaga yung connections and stuff. I don't mind having to socialise to people if necessary like kung may groupings, etc.—pero I really don't want a circle of friends. I just wanna chill, alone and go to college for the sake of learning and doing what I have to do.

I find it funny na most people struggle with socialising or making friends while my introvert ass is struggling if required ba talaga na you have to at least have one friend 😭😭 like hindi ba pwede I can just be that chill person with no one pero I still engage to people only if necessary 😭

How do you get to make the company absorb you after OJT? Freshie pa lang ako, pero I already feel like I need to prepare for internship. (Hoping to strive in college). Sa economy na meron ang Pinas at job availability sa market, hindi pwedeng hindi ako makahanap ng trabaho, I have a family to support. Para sa mga fresh grads na may work na right now, or na absorb agad, how did you do it?

i need to lock in for my upcoming exams. unfortunately, i have a very short (as in short) attention span. na try niyo na ba mag take ng supplement to help u focus? or anything na naka help sainyo while studying. any recos?

please also share your experience and kung ano side effects if any. thank you so muchhh!!!!

I already expected that I will struggle in college nung una pa lang at sabi ko pa sa sarili ko na I'll do my best as long as I learn because dream course ko naman kinuha ko but right now I'm struggling in school and I have no one to talk to. wala akong tiwala sa magulang ko and they're the ones I should be relying on right now since sila nag papaaral saakin but again masyado silang insensitive saakin.

my mom laughed at me back then for trying to convince her to go to therapy and alam ko naman expensive yun pero may mga public hospitals naman. masyado lang talaga siyang concerned sa opinyon ng iba bago maging concerned saakin.

yung tatay ko naman, sinabihan niya ako na masyado akong bobo para mag aral sa UP and it's God's plan kaya di ako naka take ng upcat and that affected me ever since I started college and it's even worse lalo't na bumagsak ako sa iba kong subjects. I can't help but think that maybe he's right pero ayaw ko na maging affected sa sinasabi niya knowing na hindi niya yan kaya masabi to both of my siblings.

my younger sibling is just in 6th grade and my other brother is 28 and working. ofc masayadong petty naman kung magalit ako sakanila diba? wala naman silang kasalanan and I don't blame them for being smarter— sa tatay namin ako galit kasi no matter how hard he tries to pretend na he has no favorites or that I'm special for being the only girl, he always have this inferiority complex towards me. he loves to make me feel like I'm dumb kahit ako yung tama or when I make mistakes mas lalo niya pa akong pinagmumukhang bobo. tapos dami pa nilang demand na once makagraduate ako ganito ganyan dapat. nakakairita

I really hate na ako lagi mag aadjust or ako lagi yung naguguilty sa pag sagot ko sakanila minsan kahit na never nila inadmit na sila yung may mali. they both love calling me a spoiled for struggling to do basic tasks like cooking but they won't even let me do shit in the kitchen because they don't trust me. paano naman ako niyan matututo? and ik I should've learned it by myself especially nung nakatira ako tito ko nung highschool ako (I was too shy and I don't want to mess up at someone else's home) wala rin talaga silang tiwala saakin and acting as if may mga bisyo ako parang tanga.

my life was way better when I wasn't living with them back in highschool. I was lessed stressed kahit alam ko magkaiba yung hirap ng college at hs. I just want that kind of freedom again.

Currently a gradwaiting student this coming july (pending pa thesis huhu) and na realize ko andaming bayari from thesis gastosin, like defense fee?! may ganon pala?? tapos constantly printing ng manuscript and forms etc. book bind pa after nakakaiyak nalang talaga.

ngayon malalaman kong meron pa palang graduation fees sasabay pa ang payment deadline sa thesis fees 😭 meron pa grad prep na gastosin like ang pictorial. i have to pay my rent pa din huhu

di naman kami well off, my mom below min. wage ang salary. ung papa ko naman di consistent mag sustento wala din maayos job.

i have less than a month for all these gastosin. jusq po bat nag tambak2

I’m using Anki since first year, I built decks for biochem, languages, history and other stuff, it works, but at some point the maintenance became the big job.
So I stopped using it seriously about two months ago and I used a couple, here’s what I tried:

1. RemNote

Closer to Anki, you write your notes and the flashcards generate from them inline. Better than Anki for people who want to keep the SRS logic but hate the separate app workflow.
I used it for a week, is probably the most natural Anki evolution.

2. TurboLearn

This is the one that actually replaced Anki for me, I upload my lecture, PDF, or video, and it auto generates flashcards and quizzes directly from your material withou a manual card creation, and the card are pulled from your actual content, so they reflect what your professor actually emphasized.
The whole thing is one tool, so notes, flashcards, quizzes, summaries all in the same place. With Anki I was always context-switching between my note app, my PDF reader, and the deck builder.

3. Quizlet

Still the most widely used flashcard platform by a mile with shared decks for basically every subject, test modes, match games. If you're in high school or early undergrad and your subject has popular shared decks already, this can be useful. I don't use it day to day because I need subject-specific cards from my own materials,but for standardized tests or common courses can be a good tool

4. Mochi

This is clean, minimal, with a better UI than Anki, (doesn't feel like a 2008 relic) Import from Anki works fine. I tested it for a few weeks but it didn't stick for me because I still had the manual card creation problem, just in a nicer interface.

5. Readwise Reader

This is not a flashcard app but worth mentioning. You highlight stuff while you read and it resurfaces them automatically over time, so you just read normally and the review happens in the background. Pretty useful

I stopped using Anki but is not a bad product, the reviews were fine, and also the flashcards, but turbo is having everything in one place. I upload my lecture and I already have the summary, the flashcards, the quizzes, all from the same material. With Anki I was always in three different apps just to study one thing.
If anyone's still grinding decks manually or found something better I'd be curious to hear it.

My academic paper was flagged by a specific app as 35% AI, and got failing score from it. I hate it when teachers who uses AI detectors to grade their student, they rely on it as if the app were not AI itself.

Yung mga teacher na gumagamit ng ibang AI Detectors. how do you grade your student?

And students who were victimized by AI Detectors, how do you approach your teacher with this? or pinabayaan nalang?

Hi! It's my first time posting here. I don't know what to do anymore, I need ate/kuya's advice po. I am an upcoming first year college student and i have a boyfriend na upcoming din.

Nakailang attempt of break-up na kami because I keep begging him not to. One of the reasons why he keeps pushing the break up is because there's a big chance na pumasok siya sa dream school niya though that school is like somewhere sa Metro and both kami taga province.

To be honest, wala naman po sa saaking problem yun. I'll support him, pangarap niya yun eh. Pero kailangan ba talaga ng break up? I know naman and sinasabi ko naman po sa kanya that I'm willing to wait and I am patient and baka nga mag-study rin ako somewhere near there if palarin (not very near but closer sa kanya than staying here sa province namin) since I'm considering magrecon kay UP because my dream course and school is in UP and may winawait pa akong result sa isang school.

But, to be honest I really don't know if I should continue convincing him na huwag makipagbreak-up sa akin kasi what if I'm being immature pala right now and I'm not realizing it? but at the same time, I really love him and I wanna fight for us.

We've been together for almost two years now and we also faced difficult problems together like ayaw kami for each other ng both families namin, self-issues, and misunderstandings pero nalampasan naman namin.

I know it's difficult naman po sa side niya cuz he's caught in between his dream and love. He's also telling me na ayaw niya ako iwan but, if it's for the practicality and betterment of each other then he's willing to set me free. But, I don't wanna be set free. I know I am capable of doing my studies well while being with him. He is also worrying na baka mang ghost ako, mag-cheat, and makipagbreak habang nasa malayo siya and we won't be able to talk in person because of the distance. But, I swear it won't happen kasi I know that I really love him.

I don't know what to do anymore please give me an advice. Should I continue holding on to this relationship or should I just stop and just focus sa upcoming college life ko? Did someone have a similar experience to this? If meron, ano po ginawa niyo? This is so difficult huhu. Thank you po. Please be kind.

I’m from uplb. Wanted to go to ateneo talaga because my dream course is there, but my family wanted UP. Connections are strong in ateneo so I want to build it there initially but due to the circumstances, additional obstacles have emerged lol. I grew up in los banos so my connections are only up to here and calamba-sta. rosa at most. I really wanted to go to ateneo for stronger and broader connections so I need help hahaha how do I make strong connections inside admu when I’m an outsider myself🤧