5 Problems Every College Student in Manila Must Face

5 Problems Every College Student in Manila Must Face

 

Goodbye, days of school services and instant class suspensions. Hello, college! Although being in college has a lot of awesome perks, it also entails a lot of struggles that a lot of the students face for the first time. Check out these college struggles and see which ones apply to you! To the graduates out there, you probably went through all of these or are still going through them up until now.

 

5 Problems Every College Student in Manila Must Face

 

5. Commute lines

 

Don’t you hate it when you wake up early and leave early, but still end up being late for class because of those horrible commute lines? It’s definitely extremely frustrating when you arrive at the terminal or station only to find out that the end of the line is nowhere in sight. The struggle is real!

 

4. Traffic

 

Perhaps no words are needed to describe this. In line with the previous bullet, your efforts of waking up early might end up in vain because of the chaotic labyrinth of vehicles in the Metro especially during rush hours. The struggle is real!

Want to make traffic less stressful? Read this: 10 Things You Can Do to Make Traffic Less Stressful

 

3. Suspension Abangers

 

You stay up late at night and refresh your Twitter account every minute to see if there are suspension announcements. You wake up early in the morning with high hopes of class suspensions because the rain is too strong. You wait, and wait, and wait. You struggle with the thoughts of facing the storm or continue hoping for a class suspension. You end up going to school anyway; but just as you’re finally at the end of your storm challenge, the suspension you’ve longed for comes and then you just stare at an empty space and mentally flip all the tables in your school. The struggle is real!

 

2. Fashion Police Alert

 

In line with the previous bullet, you find yourself struggling with your OOTD. Your clothes are fashionable, but in the end, you have the wear those waterproof pair of shoes that don’t go well with what you’re wearing. In the end, you end up with tough choices: wearing a pair of shoes that destroy your outfit or suffer with wet feet and squishy shoes. The struggle is real!

 

1. Slow Internet Connection = Heart Attack

 

With most universities and colleges making use of technology, it’s always an instant heart attack for you when it’s time to enroll in classes and check grades. To make matters worse, everyone else is trying to access the website of your school hence the slower loading of the page. You end up holding your breath while your heart attempts to break free from your body. The struggle is real!

 

Do you have your own struggles you’d like to share with us? Comment below and tell us about it!

 

 

5 Problems Every College Student in Manila Must Face