higher education

I've always had this fascination with Marketing.

If it weren't for my father's coaxing, I would have taken it up instead of Accountancy.

"Nandiyan ang pera sa accounting," he said and of course, he was wrong.

Then again, it's most likely I would have still ended up an accounting major on account of the college's hierarchy. Accounting students may be nerdy and some may be socially inept but they're almost always Commerce's Creme de la Creme. Modesty aside, I belong there; my heart though, it belongs to Marketing.

In sophomore year, I had this marketing professor who challenged me to ace her midterm examination. If I win, I get a final grade of 1.0 on her subject. That means I don't have to attend her class for the rest of the semester. When the results came out, she gladly announced in front of the class that she owes me a grade of 1.0, and that if she can give me a grade higher than that, she would.

It was one of the best classes I have attended, and she was perhaps the best professor I have had. I'm saying this not only because she saw me as her golden boy or that she made good of her promise; more than that, she was so effective in sharing her learnings and applications in real life. She made her discussions so enticing. She groomed us to think outside the damn box. She taught the class how to appreciate and love everything that is Marketing; I can't help but think that life is Marketing so essentially, she taught us how to deal with life.

Four months ago, I tried to explain all this in one of my classes. Yes, I finally had the opportunity and necessary resources to enroll in a graduate school of business and take up what I love. Today's the last day of the term and I feel so relieved to have completed it. Truth be told, it is quite difficult to juggle studies and work and life and love. There's always a chance to drop one, if not all three, if you're not good enough a juggler.

"Pero hindi puwedeng, hindi puwede."

That's what my professor would say and I couldn't agree more.