Sa wakas! Tapos na ang aking thesis proposal defense! Yahoooo!
It went really well, better than I expected, considering my panelists were Dr.Pertierra and Dr.Porio, only two of the most respected academics in the academic world. Naks. They really had no comments about my paper, just questions and clarifications which I think I was able to answer dutifully. Di ko dinaan sa bullshit promise. They weren't tough questions anyway and most of the comments were just suggestions.
Comments of the day:
1) "Your thesis was well written. The topic is also quite possibly innovative." - Dr.Porio
2) "Good job, Mia!" - Dr.Saloma
Dr.Pertierra also gave me copies of papers and works related to my research. Yey!
Additionally, at walang kinalaman sa thesis:
3) "You look lovely, ang ganda ng kutis mo."- Dr.Porio
Hahahaha! Sabi ko, "Foundation lang yan, Ma'am." Hahaha. Eh totoo naman.
Incidentally, ano bang sinusuot sa mga presentations? Lahat ng mga office clothes ko di na kasya sakin or mukhang luma na. Ako pa! Tsinelas queen. Hehe.
For the first time in this whole thesis-writing process, I feel empowered. It's really true, sometimes you just need people to believe in whatever you're doing. Having just one person believe in you and your work makes you feel that you're really onto something meaningful, that you're not just working on some random, fruitless project your feeble little mind has concocted. I needed that sort of reinforcement. I've started to doubt myself during this whole thesis writing process. It's not just the writing part, although that too was difficult. It was more the meaning behind this research. I've started doubting the relevance of whatever is it I was working on, and my god, to be irrelevant is one of the worst things you can be, I think. To hear people say that this research on migrant children and communications technology is quite possibly innovative, well, that's just a really good thing to hear.
I wanted to look at my defense as something that can help my research, not something to be dreaded. Graduate students are the scum in the academic world, and we usually bow to our professors who can easily massacre our academic hopes with one raised eyebrow and a few scathing words.
Pucha sarap ng feeling right after. I have a good, solid topic backed by good, solid profs who honestly believe in the promise of this research. The freedom I have right now is kind of overwhelming so, as with other things, I have to break it up into little, doable things. I'll have to submit the first chapter of my thesis next month, before the holidays, so I gotta get crackin!
First up, attend the launch of Nawala ang Ilaw ng Tahanan:Helping Families of OFWs, a book that deals with children of migrant workers. One of the authors is Dr.Honey Carandang, noted child psychologist and mother of Ricky Carandang, ANC reporter.
No, I wasn't invited and yes, I'm going there without knowing anybody. Good luck naman sakin.
So it begins!
It went really well, better than I expected, considering my panelists were Dr.Pertierra and Dr.Porio, only two of the most respected academics in the academic world. Naks. They really had no comments about my paper, just questions and clarifications which I think I was able to answer dutifully. Di ko dinaan sa bullshit promise. They weren't tough questions anyway and most of the comments were just suggestions.
Comments of the day:
1) "Your thesis was well written. The topic is also quite possibly innovative." - Dr.Porio
2) "Good job, Mia!" - Dr.Saloma
Dr.Pertierra also gave me copies of papers and works related to my research. Yey!
Additionally, at walang kinalaman sa thesis:
3) "You look lovely, ang ganda ng kutis mo."- Dr.Porio
Hahahaha! Sabi ko, "Foundation lang yan, Ma'am." Hahaha. Eh totoo naman.
Incidentally, ano bang sinusuot sa mga presentations? Lahat ng mga office clothes ko di na kasya sakin or mukhang luma na. Ako pa! Tsinelas queen. Hehe.
For the first time in this whole thesis-writing process, I feel empowered. It's really true, sometimes you just need people to believe in whatever you're doing. Having just one person believe in you and your work makes you feel that you're really onto something meaningful, that you're not just working on some random, fruitless project your feeble little mind has concocted. I needed that sort of reinforcement. I've started to doubt myself during this whole thesis writing process. It's not just the writing part, although that too was difficult. It was more the meaning behind this research. I've started doubting the relevance of whatever is it I was working on, and my god, to be irrelevant is one of the worst things you can be, I think. To hear people say that this research on migrant children and communications technology is quite possibly innovative, well, that's just a really good thing to hear.
I wanted to look at my defense as something that can help my research, not something to be dreaded. Graduate students are the scum in the academic world, and we usually bow to our professors who can easily massacre our academic hopes with one raised eyebrow and a few scathing words.
Pucha sarap ng feeling right after. I have a good, solid topic backed by good, solid profs who honestly believe in the promise of this research. The freedom I have right now is kind of overwhelming so, as with other things, I have to break it up into little, doable things. I'll have to submit the first chapter of my thesis next month, before the holidays, so I gotta get crackin!
First up, attend the launch of Nawala ang Ilaw ng Tahanan:Helping Families of OFWs, a book that deals with children of migrant workers. One of the authors is Dr.Honey Carandang, noted child psychologist and mother of Ricky Carandang, ANC reporter.
No, I wasn't invited and yes, I'm going there without knowing anybody. Good luck naman sakin.
So it begins!
1 comments:
I think you really deserved the praises you’ve got from other people about your thesis project. Well, putting all your time and effort to it can really make a difference, especially if you are working with dissertation that sometimes can be hard and grueling task to do. Anyway, I do hope everything went well with your study.
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