The first semester of my third year college life has ended. It brought different things, and experience that will remain in me for a long time. I achieved a little in my academe but the best in my chosen path. I met a couple of new faces and brought my relationships with old ones to another level. My habits are changed a little bit but I think it is for the better. With another chapter unfolding, I want to go back to my experiences from day one.

It’s been two semesters that I have been with my current set of classmates. They are easy to get along with unlike the past and I think I’ll stick to them for good. Each of them has something to say, and they are no-nonsense people. There are times when we’re serious and talk about current issues as next year will be the presidential elections. But more often than not, we laugh about jokes. However, my classmates don’t lack discipline contrast to my former colleagues. When class hours, all are attentive to the teacher and participates well in recitations. Though battered by endless assignments and quizzes, they always find time to relax and chill out. Read the rest of this entry…

I headed for a scheduled seminar at the EdTech center located inside Benavides Library. This seminar was a collaborative effort of two organizations, ISyS and TomasinoWeb, both of which are headed by students from the IS program. The seminar was about PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), a scripting language embedded in HTML. I’m quite acquainted to this as I’ve been researching about this for the past months now. Unluckily, this topic is not included in our curriculum. But still, with the hope of finding a career in Web Development, I find myself utilizing every possible way of getting information about PHP.

The speaker of the event was no less than the UST webmaster himself, Mr. Jun Dolor. We’re quite acquainted with each other as he was the one who taught me and my colleagues last summer, at the TomWeb Summer Training, the Joomla CMS and many other things involving Web Development. The program started with a short prayer and an introduction of the speaker. Then after that, Mr. Dolor proceeded to show us some of his past and current projects. He also encouraged us to collaborate Read the rest of this entry…