I thought Mass Comm is easy.

The term was weird, I told to myself when I heard the world Mass Comm from one of my Grade 3 classmates. We were telling stories about what we will do if we finally finish our schooling. I said to her, oh, I guess I'll be following my father's footsteps in China. I will draw, design, and craft for his company if in case he falls ill in his job. Or, I'll be more ambitious and get richer than JAZA and build a company where I can create my own animé series and be proud to project it all over the world as the very first all Filipino animated series...

Diane just said this blankly. "Ako? Maskom," (Me? Mass Comm) with that strong Filipino twang.

Anong Maskom?, I asked her.

"Maskom. Maskomportable." (Mass Comm. More comfortable)

For so many years, idea never came into being that I would be taking this course upon entering college. No one did. All my classmates would say that I might be some architect that would design the most intricate house in the Philippines and would cost a hundred million pesos. Some insist that I would be entering UP to take Fine Arts and produce the very first commercially successful animated series made by a Filipino. Others would rant that I will be following my dad's footsteps and set my ugly feet permanently in China or Japan.

Yet I took BA Mass Communication, without knowing that I will be majoring Journalism.

There's this stereotype about students with their reason that Mass Communication will not involve math ever. No. Your first semesters will be bombarded with lots of math than any other non-math-related course in your university. Then you would kill yourself for disbelief.

Second, Mass Communication is easy. Yes, it's very easy to write and speak. No, because you need your brain to work efficiently and simultaneously while you speak and write. It's no joke. Math is easy because you just have to compute and compute. And there's always an exact answer. I find engineering courses easier since I bested Math in my highschool. Squee.

I halfheartedly admit the fact that during the times when I was clueless to think of what degree I will pursue in college, I took consideration that the course will be easy for me, and highly related to my interest directly proportional to its costs.

Then, I realized I was fooling myself.

I am so piled with lots of projects.

Filming is never easy for us. Most of us here in CvSU are members of the Philippine povertsia, where we would nearly beg for alms just to be provided with our school expenses.

My projects are the following:

1. Short feature/documentary/whatever film about a media practitioner, preferably a journalist, and his life according to the laws of mass media. Courtesy of our terror but friendly but still terror professor Atty. Adonis Meñez.

2. Short investigative/interpretative report about the present condition of the Sangguniang Kabataan in Cavite

3. Case analysis about the "Mass Media to Society" influence. That means, we can go to places we never imagine.

4. Communication research mini thesis. We haven't discussed what we should study about.
And

5. Another case analysis slash feasibility study of another function hierarchy diagram about the Personal Identification System in De La Salle University-Dasmariñas.

Sheesh. And it's tentative. God save us all.

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BTW, I forgot to mention about the gift I received from Chas. Golly. A cute reindeer stuff toy souvenir from Norway. Hihi. It's so cute, all my schoolmates wanted to steal it. Because they rarely find one similar to mine. They're so envious, they nearly had stolen my bag and slashed my throat. All because of my cute, cuddly, internationally-signed-sealed-and-delivered, reindeer stuff toy. Hahaha.

Thanks Chas!

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