The Diary of a Multimedia Art Student

Before College: Life Chapter 1

July 26, 2023

it's past 2 am, and I am still awake; I haven't slept well as college life is fast approaching. I think I'm excited or worried about my college life's outcome. My mind keeps racing with emotions and thoughts about what lies ahead. The anticipation of new friendships, intriguing courses, and exciting experiences fills me with excitement, making it hard to close my eyes and sleep. Yet, beneath that excitement, there is also a tinge of worry as the uncertainty of the future looms in the darkness. As the minutes tick by, I try to remind myself that it's normal to feel this way; after all, college is a significant milestone and a major transition in life. The fear of the unknown is only natural, but it shouldn't overshadow the potential for growth and self-discovery that awaits me.

I take a deep breath, trying to focus on the positive aspects of this new chapter. The college offers a chance to explore my passions, pursue my interests, and become more independent. It's an opportunity to meet people from different backgrounds and cultures, broadening my horizons and opening my mind to new perspectives.

My name is Samantha, and I am a first-year college student at Saint Louis University Baguio with a Bachelor of Multimedia Arts course. And this is the document of my life as an Art student in the prestigious school.

People wonder why students like me want to pursue this course, "wala kang mapapala jan....Puro drawing-drawing lang yan...pumili ka ng mas 'financially stable' course," hurtful words come out to their mouths; it is not because they don't want you not to pursue your dream to become an artist. It's just reality talk; when I heard those words, I, too, became hurt, which made me want to cry in the corner of the room, but I realized that there ain't wrong.

I realized they're just afraid of my future with this course. My family fears my future, but some believe I will live the best life after college.; my sister and my mother. Besides my sister, my mother and I aren't on good terms through my junior high school years. But in my senior year, we made a connection that I will never break again. I share my worries with her, my pains, and my success.

I was an Accountancy, Business, and Management student at the University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao. At first, I told her in my first year in senior high school that I wanted to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing Management, because I believed that my skills in making Advertisements would be suitable for that course. But two years passed, and Immersion has done, I realized that course was more engaging; in advertisements than making one. I mean, they make a marketing strategy to promote a company's product and give their idea to I.T. to make such an advertisement. I think that course is more on monitoring than making one.

When I was in the middle of a college crisis back in February, that time was a University Hunt season for us grade 12 students; my sister suggested that I pursue Multimedia Arts because I got a talent for Arts and other forms of media like Video editing and Photography; with that suggestion and curiosity about this course, I looked it up and thought of myself, "what if I took this course?"

That's when SLU Baguio launched a new program for their school Bachelor of Multimedia Arts. I was thrilled when I saw this program for my dream school. I feared I would pick another school with the course I wanted. And so, I applied to my dream school and was lucky enough to get in. Did you know 20 of my classmates, including me, applied to SLU, and only 6 of us got in; that's how hard the SLU entrance exam is, but I believe it is based on the course you want to pursue in that school.

Months passed, and I finished high school; I may not be smart like other students in my old school, but I am glad that I finished it fair and square. I survive it recklessly. And I want to change that in my college life. Back in senior high, I used a method in studying for exams which was blurting with a pinch of writing on paper. I was always easily distracted, so I got a decent yet passing score on my exams. So I guess I will start to fix that.