The Summer Experience 3: A Working Vacation

When I was conceiving the idea of writing an umbrella series of blogs for summer as an extension of my still-continuing blog series about my continuing college life, it was under the assumption that I won't exactly going to have a normal summer vacation in my college years.

Up to now, its purpose of existence remains largely the same, save for last year when I had my first and so far only normal vacation with no academic strings attached. But this year, well let's just say that I'm sorta-kinda-vacationing-while-working-and-studying at the same time.

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Since the end of junior year, I've kept myself occupied with a couple of school-related activities. One was participating on CSB's frosh orientation program (which I recently found out that I'll be in the sec committee instead of logistics) which I want to join since my freshman year but circumstances prevented me on joining until now. The other is being part of 99.5RT's The Farm where I've recently transferred my internship from RT30, the station's flagship chart show.

Working while in the middle of a month-long vacation doesn't seem to be all that bad, at least not yet. As far as I know, the next few days will be critical as me and the rest of the FOP guys will be orienting freshmen in preparation of the new school year while on the other side f the spectrum, members of The Farm are busy planning this really big thing next month. Can't say the exact details just yet but we hope we get the green-light to do this.

People are asking me why I try to make things tedious for me, why I'm making myself so busy when I should be resting. Because I want to engage myself on things that could shape me as a person. It's a learning experience that will teach me a lot of things, getting prepared with the harsh reality that is life as well as passing the torch of wisdom to the new crop of naive students coming into the school very soon.

Here's to wishing I could have a decent summer vacation next year, that is if by then I'll be done with school. Cheers to that!