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Entry No. 1: Trying to achieve the childhood dream and the high school year book prophecy at the same time (I know this is a long title and I just made it longer)

Preparing for college was hard.

My hardest dilemma was whether to enroll in a state university at my home town or in a more known university at the metro. The second hardest dilemma was whether to consider my childhood dream in choosing a degree or following that high school year book prophecy I told the campus journalist to write about me. Pretty dramatic but miraculously, an option came and resolved the second one, I would go to Philippine Normal University (PNU) - The National Center for Teacher Education (NCTE) and train to be an educator, my childhood dream, then I would enroll in its Biology program so I could get into a pure Biology program for my graduate studies to have a shot at fulfilling that high school year book prophecy, to be an award-winning scientist (too far-fetched, I know). So the only problem left was... PNU is in Manila and I've spent 99.something percent of my life in Lingayen, Pangasinan which is 5 to 8 hours away from the metro depending on the traffic and the speed at which the driver makes the bus move— anyways, yes, that was the hardest dilemma. Should I push through or not? Would I be able to survive being away from my mother, my sisters, all the other relatives, all the people from high school who I treasure so much, the animals, the humid air and everything else in Lingayen? Would my parents even agree to it since they didn't even allow me to take any of the college entrance tests of universities far from home because they said Manila or any place outside Pangasinan would be a dangerous place with people I won't be able to blend with? Plot twist: they eventually agreed after several hours of us having a discussion in our living room/dining room/bedroom. It was either I did so well in convincing them, or they suddenly thought it would be better to send me away as I gave them all kinds of pain in high school and it would be more terrible for them to experience the same in college, or God loved me so much that when He made me feel that choosing PNU and Biology would be one of my life's defining moments, He also helped me go through every obstacle that went with it. The third one always makes me feel some type of way when I think of it so that should be it, I've been believing that was the case.

So I went to PNU, now taking Bachelor in Science Education with Specialization in Biology (BSciE Biology).

Spoiler: Being in college is harder.