TOP 10 MUST-HAVE THINGS BEFORE ENTERING YOUR CLASSROOM
(especially during the first few weeks of the semester)
10. Proper hygiene. Don’t go to class smelling like hell or alcohol or smoke. I mean, you’re meeting new faces that you’ll be dealing with for the whole semester and you don’t want to scare them away. Try going to the bathroom and smell if you still look, or at least smell, like a normal person.
9. A pair of pants that is properly worn, with fastened zippers.
8. Untagged clothing. Since it’s the start of the semester, some might have decided to buy new clothing. Well, there’s nothing wrong with buying new clothes but you might want to check if you have cut the tag price of your clothes, or maybe if you have removed the sticker saying “DO NOT IRON”.
7. Phones turned off, or at least in silent mode. It’s quite embarrassing when you enter your classroom and suddenly you’re phone rings. That’s a grand entrance and you don’t want any attention and all eyes on you especially if it’s a large class. You don’t want everyone in the room to remember you as “the girl/boy with the grand entrance” unless, you’re a person who wants attention from everybody.
6. Clock or alarm clock that is working. Or in most cases, the right time registered on your cellphone. First impression lasts, they say, so you might not want to be late for your class and have that impression from your teacher or classmates that you are a tardy student. You might want to at least have a good first impression from them.
5. The right schedule. I mean your own schedule and not your girlfriend’s or your boyfriend’s schedule and take note, the right schedule for the right semester. You don’t want to miss a subject for the first meeting right? So go check if you’ve printed and brought the right one.
4. Validated identification card (I.D). Though, this is not only important during the first few weeks of class but during exams, especially if you have STAT 1 written on your form 5. When I was taking STAT 1, I have this classmate and it was already his 2nd take of the subject, he forgot to have his ID validated. Fortunately, he passed the preliminary exam but his luck was not enough because he got a deduction of 5 points because of his invalid ID, making his score, if I was not mistaken, 58 which is already failing.
3. The right form 5 and the right class card. You might want to double check if you have the right registration materials before presenting them to the professor/instructor. We don’t want our teachers feeling dizzy looking for the subject because we don’t want those angelic faces turn to terrifying faces, because terrifying faces=pop quiz.
2. The right pair of slippers. Same color, same size, and same design. I had once seen a student; we rode on the same jeepney I just don’t know if we were on the same class. Anyways, she’s wearing two different slippers and she only knew that when she was already about her destination.
1. The right room and the right class. Never ever forget to have these, you don’t want students laughing and eyeing at you during your first class. I know a few of my friends who have made this mistake (ha ha!), and they only noticed that they were on the wrong class when it was almost dismissal time. And take note, this has not only happened to students but also to some teachers.
