Our Ride to Success

Thesis Days

          I have to say, Grade 10 has been the most stressful and mentally tiring year ever. Our thesis plays a big role on this matter. Because of our thesis we have all had mental and emotional breakdowns. There were times when we all pissed each other off for not cooperating and there were times when we were just total zombies together. Although our original study got rejected and our group was up for re-defense I personally believe that it was a blessing in disguise. A blessing that worn us all out but thought us very valuable lessons in life that I'll surely be bringing with me in the future. But despite all of these hardships, we still made it. We got accepted and we finished all our paper works on time. I'm infinitely grateful for all of the people who have helped us get to where we are now; our research advisers, Ms. Franny and Sir Romie, Sir Michael Lomibao and the other panelists, our group, and of course the Almighty God who gave us His wisdom and strength to never give up on our thesis. Without all of you we wouldn't have been able to do any of this.

PALOMARA

A lot of sleepless nights, a lot of stressful moments, a lot of good memories. That's how I can describe our thesis. But other than that, it was a beautiful moment in my life. It made me realize the hardships of the future and helped prepare me. I also believe that the thesis made all of us, the members, closer to each other. (I mean, why wouldn't we become close we spend every dissmissal doing the thesis.) The thesis, it was a pain in my butt, to be completely honest. All those researching, experimenting, etc. But I realized that it was actually fun and exciting and that it was much better because I knew all of us put our heart and our souls into it. The thesis, it's a memory to me now. I also felt really excited that we got approved!!!

MARIANO

The thesis was also one of the highlights of this quarter. Our previous study got rejected, but we made a huge comeback and it is successful. I'm so happy that our study got approved and that it is over. The day of the re defense, I was quite nervous because me and my fellow researchers have to present the study in front of the school officials and the school administrators. But after our thesis got approved my group mates shed tears of joy and it felt great. It felt great seeing my group-mates happy because all of our hard work and efforts are all worth it. All of the group meetings and all of the sleepless nights are now over, and of course once again, I give thanks to our research advisers Mr. Dolor and Mrs. Sandoval for helping us through the whole thesis and for the non stop motivation and also for not giving up on us. They're one of the reasons why our study got approved. I would also like to thank our school assistant director Mr. Lomibao completely supporting us and for giving us ideas for our study, kuya Alvin as well was a huge factor for our success and of course most of all, the man up above, our Almighty God for not giving up on my group also. I am just full of joy because it is all over now and summer is approaching.

SALCEDO

Doing an investigatory project was really hard. Especially when we get rejected on the first final defense and do an entire new study. We had to start another chapter 1 to chapter 5 and another whole process of creating a product. Except this one is compressed within 2 weeks which means its double the stress and effort. But after doing the new research we were very happy that during our re-defense we finally got accepted and we were even nominated as one of the best Thesis defense. It felt great because after being rejected once, and doing another hard work is very stressful. It reassures us that we would be moving to the next grade level.

GERONIMO

Thesis Moments

This is the last blog for this year so I will make a supah dupah long blogpost just to share our experiences in our thesis. So, our first study is about making candles out of vegetable shortening. During our title defense, we we're all nervous because it is our first time doing it in front of the panelists. It went well but they recommended that we should change the vegetable shortening into a plant or something that might be effective in making a candle. So after that we changed our study into making candles out of used crayons and lemon grass extract. We enjoyed making it though. Until we reached the day of the final defense. Unfortunately, we got rejected because of the crayons. So we really felt bad but we stood up and tried not to be affected on what happened so we thought of a new one. We talked to Sir Mike a couple of days just for us to have an idea on what to do. And then, our new study is about using aquaponics to grow pechay baguio. When I found out that this will be our study I was like wow, because it was the first time that I heard an "aquaponics" word ever. So, I was really curious about it then I researched it in the Internet. And then our re-defense really went well like wowwww COMEBACK IS REAL. I'm really glad that we made it this far since first quarter up to fourth quarter we were doing this thesis. I'm really thankful for my leader and my group mates. They're the ones who helped me in doing this even though I think my effort wasn't enough. Thanks for considering all my excuses Dani when I missed a lot of ip days huhu I'm sorry.

SARMIENTO