We know the feeling, Tyang.
Throughout her career, Aby Maraño has proven that she is a fighter through and through. But even the toughest of the toughest out there know that writing a thesis is a different monster.
Tyang Aby's reaction on Instagram sums up the academic rite of passage.
"Ang husay nila sa mga konsepto. Kaso hindi lang utak ko dumudugo sa ideas nila, ‘yung ilongstra ko din forda nose bleed!" Maraño said, referring to philosophers and sociologists behind her reading list.
"Minsan hindi na ako makahinga sa haba ng sentences nila beh. Forda rap Bugshh!"
Turned out Maraño is reading "The Forms of Capital" by Pierre Bourdieu for her master's thesis. Hearing the phrase review of related literature or RRL brings back nightmares for a lot of people.
Here's the opening sentence of Maraño's reading material.
"The social world is accumulated history, and if it is not to be reduced to a discontinuous series of instantaneous mechanical equilibria between agents who are treated as interchangeable particles, one must reintroduce into it the notion of capital and with it, accumulation and all its effects."
Honestly, the meaning of that sentence is hard to grasp at first reading. Even Maraño asked if other researchers re-read their journals.
"Ako lang ba o paulit-ulit niyo rin binabasa ‘yung text ‘pag ganito kalalim?"
One responded with, "Napapatanong na lang Tyang Aby kung appropriate ba ‘yung age ko sa kakayahan ko intindihin ‘yan."
Maraño herself admitted the struggle most students will relate to.
"Ako nga napapatulala na lang. Nauubos brain cells ko sa overwhelming infos. Sabaw mode na kapag three hours kang nagbabasa ng theories," the F2 Logistics Cargo Movers captain said.
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