The first day

Monday, June 17, 2013 10:31 PM

                Today was the first day in Law School of the 2018 Bar Topnotcher (naks). Originally, our class schedule is 4:30-6:30pm for Statutory Construction and 6:30-8:30 for Persons and Family Relations but we received a text message from Kuya AC informing us that there will be a classroom orientation regardless of our schedule. I didn’t expect that he will be the one facilitating the orientation. Kuya AC is a brod from UPLB EconSoc. He is a member of various organizations in San Beda particularly the Lex Scholaris, something like an Honor Society where only Honor Students are being catered and the International Debate Society, he was even the representative of San Beda in a debate competition sponsored by the ANC and was qualified up to the semi finals against Ateneo. In short, Kuya AC is one of the best Law Students in San Beda and he is now on his 4^th year. I am hoping he be one of the top ten when they get their Bar.

                Going back to my first day, Kuya AC and another Law Student gave us tips on how to survive our first year, well, you cannot really teach a person ways on how to survive but yeah something like that. They even gave us a sample case and used it for a mock recitation where Kuya AC was the mock professor (sorry I don’t know how to address him. haha). Since he knows Audrey and me, we were not called to recite although the sample case was really simple and I’m pretty sure that was very far from the real and actual recitation. We bought three Codals (a compilation of the laws), we have the Revised Penal Code, the Philippine Constitution and the Civil Code for a total of Php 1,318. Yes, that was a lot of money considering these were not even the real reference books, these are just merely Codals.

                The orientation lasted for an hour and a half then we switched classrooms for our Persons class but we left because we were confident that the prof won’t arrive. We are clinging now to the hope that really the professor didn’t arrive because if he did, we were guilty of boycott and punishable by having a grade of 65 or failed for the first recitation and the prof will probably hate us for the rest of our stay in the College.