S ervice to students? What do you make of it when asking for assistance only from those whom you think are best suited to help results in being coldly directed to someone convenient, not anyone appropriate?
It used to be studying in progress.. so why the change? Trying to connect to the youths by talking their slang?
Nowadays, mugging is interchangeably used with studying. The former is a a stinging sound to my ears. You can say I'm being anal but these two words have REALLY different meanings. Mugging has a negative contonation to it while studying indicates something positive.
E.g. He's a mugger (read: hardworkingly swallowing everything you read without filtering). He's a studious student (read: diligently chewing the materials into meaningful pieces).
Not every youth-created words should be embraced enthusiatically, certainly not this word at the tertiary level where critical thinking is promoted. This author stands firm against the use of the word 'mugging' (albeit stubbornly) unless you really want to call yourself a mugger.
Anyhow, I still have 3 more papers to do before I can study for my exams, so off I go..
Ps: Why is this sign only put up during the last week of semester.. Isn't the library always used to study and to read anyway?
As I mentioned before (perhaps in previous entry), silence is beautiful. It can speak volumes of the unexplainable understanding and the knowing presence of one another.
BUT, I discovered another side of silence recently. It's not the silence of a tantrum like not picking up the phone because you don't want to. Being on both the receiving and giving end before, I find this acceptable since we all need our reflective moments. Neither is it the loud sound of the clock ticking away because there's nothing to be said. The new silence is very much terrifying. It's like the silence on that answering machine where you don't even know whether the line's been changed.
Silence is beautiful. I shudder to think further. It can be THE present to give. However, as always with gifts, it's the thought that matter not the present itself.
A tuition kid of mine always can't wait to tell me her 'jokes', so let me share one of them with you: What's one word the moment you say it, you break it?
it's okay if you can't see the road ahead, just make sure God is still in sight!!
In His time, in His time,
He makes all things beautful in His time.
Lord, please show me every day,
As You're teaching me Your way,
That You do just what You say, in Your time.
In Your time, in Your time,
You make all things beautiful in Your time.
Lord, my life to You I bring.
May each song I have to sing
Be to You a lovely thing, in Your time.
Words and Music by Diane Ball
Th3 b@bY iN mI
vette
15 Sept 88
child of God
likes: zzz
dislikes: waa waa
