This academic year is my third academic year as a lecturer of the Department of Mathematics in UP Diliman. Until now I still can't believe that I was actually accepted to teach in the department. I consider it as a miracle, really.
This morning I "rediscovered" my account on easyjournal.com and started to fix that journal again. Then I stumbled upon my entry on the day of my interview and teaching demo in the department. This is worth sharing so I might as well reprint it here. Here goes...
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Pinapatigil na namin kung ginaganahan na!--Sir Ric
It was one heck of an interview/demo teaching session.
Almost 8 years of waiting and yearning for me to apply for a teaching job at my department -- the Department of Mathematics of UP Diliman -- ended when I had a cahnce to face the screening panel for an interview and demonstration teaching. I couldn't believe it at first, but when the Chairman, Sir Ric, scheduled me for the DI (Demo/Interview) day yesterday, it really dawned in me that the day of reckoning was at hand.
Well, the day of reckoning made me end up dazed, dizzy and even distressed....
Who wouldn't? Being grilled by a committee of professors would make your stomach churn and your body shake. It was really a wonder how I managed to survive it.
After the demo, I was on a high, having told myself that I actually hurdled the interview and demo. Then it hit me: I found myself not satisfied with my performance, to the point of having doubts of having a possible teaching career at the department. Not even Ma'am Divine's assurance comforted me.
Oh, well, an interrupted teaching demo and the uncertainty of my employment as a teacher hovers in the horizon, but they should not worry me at this point.
I just have to wait and see. ^_^;
