AWESOMENESS in the HOUSE!

Decisions

Have I ever told you guys that when I was in 1st year, I didn't care about college? I just knew that I wanted to take up Literature and nothing else. 2nd year, Sir Chet convinced me to take up an engineering course. By that time, I wanted to be in UST. In 3rd year, I decided to take civil engineering - but when I realized that it had more Drafting than I could handle, I chose ECE instead. It's fit for me. I like cell phones, telecommunications, working in TV stations . . . And I was determined to go to UST. But during the summer, I attended NYSTESC for the first time in my life.

It was one of the most unforgettable experiences of my high school life, and I'm very thankful to have been chosen to participate there. Before arriving in Iloilo (where the Camp was held this year) Sir Mike told us that the facilitators are college students, and they don't get paid for being facis there, they only receive certificates, which play a part in applying for a job, he told us. Yeah. I didn't care at first, but when we got there at Iloilo, we were divided into Satrapes, and we were given one Guardian per Satrape. Mine was a Mechanical Engineering student from UP. Later that night I learned that most of them came from UP Diliman. That's where I learned that the UP Diliman students get to be facilitators during these camps.

NYSTESC was only for four days but aside from giving me new friends and experiences to treasure, it made me change the way I view science as a whole. It made me enjoy a subject that I had disliked since my childhood days. If you hadn't already gotten the gist, NYSTESC changed my life. As a matter of fact, it made me decide to want to be in UP. Even if I learned that you could be a PSYSC facilitator even if you're from other universities in Manila, I knew right then and there that I wanted to be in UP. And one day, I'll get to see my friends in my Satrape, and I would share to my own Villagers my experiences in my one and only NYSTESC and maybe, just maybe, I'd change the life of even just one person, too. ;)

Why am I writing this? Because I'm upset =))))))) I didn't get to go in the Summit! Dang! :'( But hey, NYSTESC is still more epic. :>

Labels: college, iloilo, inspiration, NYSTESC 2011, PSYSC, UP