Yesterday was the general orientation for new students for this school year of the UP Open University. I think hubby and I are both excited since we arrived early at the venue. LOL. Maybe because it has been years since we last attended school and we both want to finish our Masteral degree and so this time, it is a little encouraging for the both of us since we are attending the class together.
The speaker who gave an inspirational talk was really good and he was able to get our attention that all of us participated in his ice breaker. He asked us to mingle around since this might be the last time that we will be seeing each other since all of us are attending a distance learning program.
The speaker, Mr. Edwin Lopez, is a graduate of Master of Development Communication from UP OU. He shared with us that there is one thing from enrolling in UP OU that he learned that we will not get to experience if we enroll in a campus base program. That is we will learn to discover ourselves more since in UP OU, he learned to do the things that is needed to complete the course even if no one is telling him and even if no one is watching him. There was a time when he was on a flight and he has to do his homework while on board since he needs to upload his assignment to the Learning Management System as soon as he lands to meet the deadline. He even shared that he even has a batch mate who is one of the soldiers in Basilan and he shared that while he was fighting, he was already thinking where he can upload his assignments since it is already almost the deadline. He also shared the story of one of the students who just gave birth but she managed to go online to join discussion boards even if she has to take care of her infant.
This really gave me an inspiration and hopefully I can be like them, that despite my busy schedule, I will still be able to obtain my Masters degree.
After the orientation, I went home inspired, happy and excited. But then, we have to go back again to our responsibility as parents, so after the orientation, we went home to fetch our daughter and we attended her swimming class. Then after her class, we went to Greenhills since we need to look for audio racks and air-conditioning unit for my aunt. But since we are out the whole morning to attend the orientation, we promised our daughter that we will treat her out and so we spend the whole afternoon playing at Toy Kingdom and hubby bought some toys for our daughter too. We did not notice how time flies, since it is already 8 PM when we are done and so we decided that we will just check out the appliance store again later this afternoon and we will take our aunt with us so she can select which unit she likes.
The speaker who gave an inspirational talk was really good and he was able to get our attention that all of us participated in his ice breaker. He asked us to mingle around since this might be the last time that we will be seeing each other since all of us are attending a distance learning program.
The speaker, Mr. Edwin Lopez, is a graduate of Master of Development Communication from UP OU. He shared with us that there is one thing from enrolling in UP OU that he learned that we will not get to experience if we enroll in a campus base program. That is we will learn to discover ourselves more since in UP OU, he learned to do the things that is needed to complete the course even if no one is telling him and even if no one is watching him. There was a time when he was on a flight and he has to do his homework while on board since he needs to upload his assignment to the Learning Management System as soon as he lands to meet the deadline. He even shared that he even has a batch mate who is one of the soldiers in Basilan and he shared that while he was fighting, he was already thinking where he can upload his assignments since it is already almost the deadline. He also shared the story of one of the students who just gave birth but she managed to go online to join discussion boards even if she has to take care of her infant.
This really gave me an inspiration and hopefully I can be like them, that despite my busy schedule, I will still be able to obtain my Masters degree.
After the orientation, I went home inspired, happy and excited. But then, we have to go back again to our responsibility as parents, so after the orientation, we went home to fetch our daughter and we attended her swimming class. Then after her class, we went to Greenhills since we need to look for audio racks and air-conditioning unit for my aunt. But since we are out the whole morning to attend the orientation, we promised our daughter that we will treat her out and so we spend the whole afternoon playing at Toy Kingdom and hubby bought some toys for our daughter too. We did not notice how time flies, since it is already 8 PM when we are done and so we decided that we will just check out the appliance store again later this afternoon and we will take our aunt with us so she can select which unit she likes.
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