Since the start of the 4th quarterm last April, I’ve been very busy in continuing our undergraduate research in tissue engineering and designing a bioethanol plant with a capacity of 45,000 kilo liters per annum. And yes! I can already write these words after five years in college, graduation is coming very soon.

I still have one term to finish my remaining subjects before my on-the-job training.

The chance for me not to enroll next term is high due to financial reasons. I still have a huge back account at my school fees. I understand that our family is experiencing financial instability since August of 2008. Still I’m grateful and proud at my parents for doing all that they could to send me to school for another year and to my sister for her initiative to sacrifice her college to give way for me.

Utang dito, utang doon, mag-realease ng post dated cheque kahit na wala itong pondo basta may maipakita na promissory letter hanggang sa pag-utang uli sa bumbay dahil i-dedeposito na ang cheque sa bangko kaya dapat na itong bayaran ng cash kung hindi tatalbog ang cheque. Hanggang sa pakiusapan muli ang head sa treasury’s office para lang makapag-enroll muli ginawa ng Mama at Papa ko ang lahat ng iyan.

So there’s no reason for me to feel blue if I’ll be working on following months instead of having my last term at school, I’ll be back as soon as I’ve already saved enough money to support my studies.

I love you Mama and Papa. Thank you.

I also thank my thesis group mates, CY and Mark, for having been an asset in our group since day one; they were the ones who made an extra effort in funding and finishing our research. Last Thursday, CY presented our thesis at the chemical engineering research colloquium and we already received a handful of good feedbacks.

This coming week, we will finally present and defend our research in front of our panel. All I want is to have our research be approved.

In Design 1-2 class, my group received an initial grade of 7, which is incomplete, after our defense last Saturday night.

I’m very disappointed because Vincent, Liz and I spent countless sleepless nights with our plant design for the past three months.

The good news is, in the six groups that received a grade of 7, the only group that will have a re-defense on the last day of the 4th quarterm which is next Saturday is my group.

We will pass our documents on the first day of 1st quarterm of the incoming school year 2009-2010 before we can have our final grade and add Design 3 on our load. Since I’m not enrolling next term, I’ll talk with the Design 3 professor if he’ll allow me to attend the class even if I’m not officially enrolled, so I can continue my design on Design 1-2 and stay with my current group mates. I can only receive the grade once I enrolled the subject.

The remaining students who have an incomplete grade will have their defense on the first Saturday of the 1st quarterm; this condition has a huge disadvantage because once a major revision is still needed in their design, they can no longer enroll Design 3 because the next scheduled defense is already at the 10th week of the 1st quarterm.

Our professor told us that we almost achieved his standards and requirements, it just happened that our design have two major issues in the instrumentation of the equipments, not to mention that I was not able to defend the basis of our decision in producing a 91% ethanol in the top product composition of the distillation column, I forgot to mention that the 91% ethanol we used is actually 190 proof.

The most stupid answer I said, which made our professor an inch away from getting resentful, in our design defense was when he asked me if we have the specifications of the major equipments, I said none, only to realize that the equipment sizing on our calculations is actually the specifications that he is asking hahaha!

Labels: College, Family

I’m glad that I still know the right time to say these three words, I love you. I’ve been dating and flirting with this college girl for quite a long time. After our last date, I realized that we are after all not compatible though I can still feel an intimate connection between the two of us.

If you already had a relationship wherein you almost thought that she is the one, where everything seems perfect, and then the relationship ended, the following relationships all suffer comparison in every aspect.

Labels: Heart Beat

Mapua Chemical Engineering Batch 2004 Summer House Party
March 20, 2009

Goodluck to our batchmates who will take the licensure examinations next week!

Labels: ChE Tropa, College