It's ironic that although the weathermen have declared the previous week as the official start of the rainy season, still it's like hell in school. It is still definitely summer. Hot hot...and a big not!
During the previous terms I spent with this university, anyone was allowed anything they want to wear. Those were the days when you can see how people can really be creative. They express it through their clothes! I remember having this batchmate who always wore Minnie Mouse's dress every Tuesday (because according to her, every Tuesday she has a lot of time to prepare and pamper herself) LOL. Then there was this gay crossdresser...He's still a crossdresser. Nothing new about that. I'm proud of you sista!
I wore just about anything then...shorts, shirts, polo shirts, dresses, tube tops, skirts. No, not the last three. I'd be disowned! Hello?! For some strange reason the whole university was shocked at the news that the dress code will be back. No one knew where that came from. It started out as a rumor, there was even this fake blog entry that posted the revisions to be made in the student's manual regarding the dress code. School organizations quickly informed the students not to panic, that those were just speculations. Nothing final.
Towards the end of the previous term though, things became final. Boom! It was chaos. No one wanted for a change in the policies. I, for one, did not. I mean, what's the use of bringing back a policy that was already removed? And why do you want to change something that doesn't need to be changed? It just didn't make sense. But the administration, with all their powers (and all our money!), can do just about anything they want. It's a force you wouldn't want to face because you have no way out.
And so the dress code is back...you can't wear anything you like. You just wear what they like. No shorts, no slippers, and a whole lot of crazy stuff that they could think of just to make the "Prohibited List" long. So where does that actually leave the students now? Especially now when the weather just won't go with your outfit...It's so hot you'd do anything to wear a bikini to school! But nope, you can't. Not even slippers. The goal of the dress code is to make students presentable...Are they saying we don't take care of ourselves? That we're not concerned of how we appear to others? Another goal is to prepare us for the real world, the one where we'll wear suits and what have you. We get you. We'd wear a suit if it were needed. Remember, that's what we're doing now?
I don't think though that the university is yet achieving their goals. Instead of looking presentable, the students actually look like they came from a sweatshop. Dirty-looking and bad-smelling because they can't simply be comfortable. I can't believe one's personal comfort can have restrictions.
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