The CSB Experience 4: WTFOP (Frosh Orientation+La Noche Solidaridad de Frosh)

Wow I can't believe that I'm still writing a new entry under The CSB Experience since I started the whole shebang almost exactly 4 years ago, May 23 2007 to be exact.

And what a timely matter indeed. I'm just fresh off from having the time of my college life, leaving a legacy to the next generation of frosh walking along the hallways of CSB.

What am I talking about? I'm talking about this year's Frosh Orientation Program (FOP). What a twist having to find out that the FOP this year is going to be a two-part event, the second-part which we integrated the previously-separate Frosh Solidarity Night to form a solid launching pad kicking off the new school year which starts next Monday, May 23, 2011.

May 23, was actually the day of my own FOP (specifically ID107 MMA peeps). This was the day where I first met my blockmates, the people who will start their journey with me for the next four years. So it was really extra special for me to hear that May 23 is going to be the FIRST DAY for the ID111 frosh.

It felt so surreal grabbing the chance to experience this all over again thrice as an orientor. Knowing that I won't be in school as a student anymore, FOP was a way for me to complete my college experience (well there's the case of having the need to get some extra baon from my parents even if I'm officially a part of the unemployment rate).

During my first year in college, I tried to be everything, I want try out for something but somehow it never worked out. I tried to be a student athlete, I tried to be a student artist, I tried to be an active member of the student body but somehow along the way: shyness, inhibitions, and rejections took over and depression reigned on me. I tried so hard trying to be one of everything that it took a toll on my self-esteem.

I started thinking that I'm not good nor fit to even be in those kind of positions that I wanted to reach so bad.

Then came the days, the weeks, the months, and the years where I just focused on my studies. It was only when I was out of that depressive state have I realized that I should not give up. I have to battle my inhibitions and my doubts to finally give myself a second chance.

Then came the opportunity to join the FOP last year, for two terms. It's one those big decisions you've made in your life that you know you're not going to regret EVER. I met a lot of new friends, new buddies, and it changed the course of my CSB experience forever.

This year's FOP was just as awesome as the past two FOP's I did last year only we totally owned those three thousand-strong froshes in little less than 2 days.

To be quite honest, I should agree to what some of my fellow co-orientors, mas na enjoy pa namin ang FOP kaysa sa mga mismong frosh hehehehehe, The first day, we had the FOP held at all three campuses of the school then the second was when we had the FSN at the Folk Arts theater. The Bloomfields and some DJ gave us solid entertainment to cap off the event but most importantly, it was at that point that we orientors celebrate the start of something new.

Indeed, FOP will forever be the biggest highlight of my college life. I would like to thank all the new friends that I have met along the way (all the way from last years): Marco, Abby, Tin, Larii, Earl, Harold, Meryl, JP, Katty, Allister, Kim, Migo, Pe, Demy, Carlo, Bjorn, Airah, Shove, Jessica, Miss Norie, Miss Lanie, Flor, Ana, John, Nicole, Aster, Hans, Ken, Alexandra, Mikki, Mary Grace, Maureen, Dean, Kiran, Dominic, and so many others who are just as awesome as those who I've mentioned.

Awesome to the highest power...This soon-to-be alumnus is very happy.

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Check out these first few entries I wrote under The CSB Experience (when I'm still writing crappy English back then):
Frosh Orientation: http://jbata5.multiply.com/journal/item/31
La Noche Solidaridad de Frosh: http://jbata5.multiply.com/journal/item/40