Being a first year college student in a new course (new course, as in a developing course), catching up is hard. There's not an assurance that this course will progress or thrive in the near future. But on the other hand, you still have an "emergency option" in case you think this course doesn't fit you: SHIFT and engage to another course that will lead you to the pavement of success. As a freshman, it's not so bad to still be confused of your course, but being in a second year of enduring the same course, well, it appears you're pretty sure of the path that you're taking, or else everything will only be a waste.
During my first year in MMA, I'm clinging to this hope that I'm on the right track, that this is what I wanted, that I'll be good in this course. Well, it didn't stop with the hope itself, I did everything I can to meet this course's requirements. Trying hard to convince myself that I can do this and that it'll be okay, not knowing that the only way to survive this course is to be yourself. Take it seriously but at the same time, enjoy it, think of it as a hobby, and you'll never get bored or be really burdened. As long as you love what you're doing and you're enjoying it, you won't have big problems. Eventually, you'll get used to it. 10 months in college life, and I think I'm used to it. With crazy seniors and classmates beside you, I don't think there would be a reason not to enjoy this course!
Good thing I learned from my 10 months of studying as an MMA student lots of ways and principles in editing, I'd used it during my vacation to help my brother in his business. Actually, the day after my final examination last semester, my brother instantly asked me to help him and it took me almost a month helping him. Well, though I didn't really enjoy my vacation for I'm stuck in my brother's house editing day and night, non-stop, unlike the usual that my sisters and I would go places to have fun and rest, I didn't regret helping him, because it caused me to help myself as well. Aside from having additional allowance, I gained experience and at the same time, learned more from him right then and there. He taught me principles that I hadn't learned yet from school, and I used the principles I learned from school to his business. It's a tiring, stressful and yet a wonderful and worthwhile experience. After that experience, it dawned on me that this is it! I'm on the right track and I knew from then on that I'll progress through this.
Now that I'm on my second year of taking up Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Arts, I'm pretty sure that this is what I want, and that I'll do my best to thrive in this course. There's no turning back and there's no other way to progress in this course but to do your best, study hard, heed to others' counsel and apply whatever it is that you've learned. Before, I thought it'll be hard on me to accomplish whatever our seniors, the third year MMA students now, had already accomplished, but when I looked back on our previous projects as freshmen, I was amazed and surprised like, "can we really have done that?!" Accomplishing something so great by yourselves is merely a dream to me back then, but now little by little, I'm starting to reach and turn that dream into reality. Now, for me, MMA is a new but raging course. Things might get tough but worth the risk. I know that this course will expand to its widest and will influence not just us, the students, but all other people around the world.
