200 RLA Hours

Ten! 10 Hours for this, 5 for that, 40 for that; you’d have to admit, you were like this while stressing for the mandatory 200 RLA Hours. RLA –commonly known as Related-Learning Activity, wherein you need to take part in activities that will fulfill Silliman’s 5 C’s which is the Church, Culture, Court, Community, and Classroom, is considered by students to be hassle, stressful, time-consuming, irrelevant, expensive, and all other negative adjectives you could possibly think of. As someone who’s not even sure if she’s already at 200 Hours or not, I agree with all your thoughts now that RLA is indeed stressful and maybe I don’t have the right to ask this, but, Is it really that bad? Do the negative parts outweigh the positive ones? If you say yes to both my

And when we entered Senior High, we were pressured to complete 200 hours of extra-curricular activities and sacrifice our precious free time, and maybe also money in order to finish it in one semester. The pressure on us students may be tough but you’d have to admit most of us here wouldn’t participate in these activities at all if it’s not required. Firstly, how we choose to spend our free time now plays an important role in shaping us for the future. Life isn’t purely going to be about academics, or sports alone, where most schools focus on, but we need to participate on other aspects too. RLA develops us to become the individuals we should be. It helps us explore our interests with people, and it helps us be more responsible. We need to balance out our studies and RLA, and so we develop our time-management skills, and become more responsible, not only this, but we become more social as we interact with different people. These skills are just some of many that would develop if we choose to spend some of our free time on RLA activities. We become better and holistic individuals, just as Silliman wants us to