Turning Plans into Actuals



Whereas the Philippine academe promotes students to hold a degree; parents highly encourage and (more often than the normal) oblige children to get hold of a white-collar job; and corporates’ basic requirements are at least college graduates, scholars adopt and establish all these as standards and choose to augment their education by acquiring post-graduate diplomas. Being in a traditionally-and-socially-engaged country, we act according to norms and social changes which directly lead us to become education-conscious.

It is but normal to feel the pressure of the academic society. Since most of the executives either attained a master's degree or doctorate, go-getters believe that dreams are easier to chase when they, too, hold any of this degree. And I personally feel guilty for assuming the same.

But more than conforming to the standards of the academe, I give more weight to supplying my personal growth and qualifying myself to a number of opened opportunity doors--one of the reasons why I aimed at completing the degree in the prime University of the Philippines-Diliman. The image of the university I have in mind and most students do, too, doesn't scare me off. It drives me pretty challenged.

In between thinking of what field to pursue and weighing the pros and cons of possible results, I decided to pursue Communication Research, though research was not really my first love. My communication skills plus my interest to gather new information are enough to defend why I am applying to the program. It is an old cliché but I still believe that ‘if you love what you’re doing, you’ll never get tired.’

Out of all the premises of a SMART research, timeliness, which actually has a joint value with my interest, is the principle I consider the most. This resulted to two conceptual mind drafts of the following studies:

• Working Culture: Communication Processes that Influence Culture in the Workplace
• Papers vs. Smart Phones: The Get-in-all-information Habit of the Young Professionals

Of these two, the second research topic interests me more as today is the generation of smart-phone dependables; not to mention that my age bracket will be the definition of the ‘young professionals’ on the study, basically so I can relate.

Since all these literally, physically, mentally and inherently involve me, I can foresee that attending to my post-graduate school demands will turn out as examining the effects of communication and technology to someone like my own.

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 "And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree." - Donald Norman

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Pardon me for sharing this with you. I am in the middle of designing this blog and I can't see a total picture of how it'll look like without a post on it. So this! I just copied and pasted the essay submitted for my application.