[/caption]The graduation ceremony is over. We call it commencement exercises here. Rightly so. As Bob Teh points out in his blog, "...aren't ends just beginnings in disguise?"
To witness a graduation ceremony is inspiring enough, especially when you see the graduates' teary-eyed parents, and to witness graduates who graduate with flying colors is even more edifying.
"Sir, what's the secret?" students often asked me.
I don't know. Perhaps it will never be known---it's not called secret for nothing.
Besides, why would students often ask me that. I've never been an excellent student myself. The only thing I can boast of is having graduated cum laude (which is really not as difficult as whistling while eating a polvoron), and being hailed as Mr. Heart 2008. Ehem!
But I have five tips to offer anyway. I'm not that sure if these tips would work for you, but they did work for me. Here goes:
- Cut classes.
- Don't take down notes.
- Cheat.
- Always be absent.
- Disregard numbers 1 to 4.
Many years ago, there lived a man who never graduated from college. He opted to compete in the larger university of life. But boy was he successful. He's one of the architects of the Labor Code of the Philippines, and figured prominently as a former president of the International Labor Organization.
He was Blas Ople.
He once gave a commencement address, and pondered what's the law of success.
"The nearest thing to a law of success," he said, "is that if you are committed, you will succeed. The strength of commitment can even be quantified—in terms of the time and effort you allocate to your goals, not in sporadic burst, but in a steady state."
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