`Cause being a teenager means raging hormones...

I HATED

• How we had to balance GE and Arts; when recitals were NO EXCUSES for missing requirements in GE.
• How we had to walk up and down to get to our next class.
• It when GE teachers would bug us incessantly about our new love interests.
• How getting something done in the Admin took forever where we had to do it ourselves to get it.
• It when the school neglected the students when visitors arrived.
• The pretension of having to look neat and presentable when we obviously wanted to do otherwise and to be free.
• How "Pababa na yung Rosa" took thirty minutes or even an hour.
• Having our clearance papers signed.
• Wrapping our books in plastic covers even if we didn't even ruin them in the first place.
• How classes never got suspended even if all the trees fell down.
• How we could run faster than our internet connection.
• Edubuntu and its user unfriendliness.
• Our hot multi-colored t-shirts.
  

• Most of our meals; how we had the SAME MEALS AND DESSERTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
• That we had to face so many bawal ito and bawal yan's.
• The idea that we ourselves had to hunt down the people with utangs just to make sure that we got them back before the year ended.
• Waking up to a splash on my face when it rains because the room is leaking.
• Cleaning our bathrooms with tiles that never whiten.
• Losing food in the ref even if I've written "******** WALANG MAGNANAKAW NITO LECHE KAYO" in big bold letters.
• Going to the Houseparents office for stupid reasons.
• How frogs swam more times than the students did in the pool.
  

• Petty arguments with batchmates.
• Batch wars
• Powertrippers.
• How upperclassmen watched every wrong movement of the Freshmen.
• How not saying po and opo seemed like a plummet to social death.

• How people would say walang personalan but would be the starters of it all.
• How most of our Arts Teachers left us every year.
• How we had to go through several leaders.
• Not having Arts Classes.
• Having a different schedule from the lower years.
• That Theater Majors did not have a permanent place to stay.
• Fighting for the right to rehearse til eleven because we didn't have enough time in the day.
• Having to think about "Age Approriateness".
• That it was so hard to put up a performance.
• The fact that no matter how hard you try, it's never enough.
  
• How four years didn't seem enough.

These are only a few. I wrote this to let you know that our school isn't perfect. But no matter how many things I absolutely HATED in this school, no matter how many times you ask me, I'd smile and tell you:

I wouldn't have had it any other way.

Makiling is too precious of a memory to let go of. Let me tell you that I absolutely LOVED every second I spent there.