My College Life in the Philippines

Try these tips on how you (a pinoy college student) can earn extra money:

1. Part time Jobs in fast food chains. Did you know that famous fast food chains in the Philippines prioritize working students than out of school youths? Yes it's true and in fact some of them provide scholarship programs  and financial assistance as well. Try Jollibee and McDonald's.

2. Are you good in drawings and graphic design? perhaps you could try selling your artworks to your classmates, they might be interested to buy it and use it as a print design in their new shirts. Make your marketing effective by letting your classmate see you wearing a shirt with your personalized design. You don't need a money investment to start this small business, because you could tie up with existing establishments that sells shirts and do printing services. Earn from commission or by marking up the price. Believe me, it works.

3. Do you have passion in writing? Good news! There are a lot of article publishing websites online that pays you to write. Let me name some of these: Triond, Wikinut, Bukisa and Redgage. You can also start investing time setting up a blog today to earn from online advertisements. You may also want to read Internet Part time Jobs for College Students

4. Do you have a good interpersonal communication skills? Here are the part time extra money jobs you can try: Event and Party Hosting, Tutors for Koreans, and Commission based Marketing Assistant.

5. Are you bless with good selling skills? A pinoy college student like you can join some legitimate networking companies and direct selling companies too such as  Avon, Natasha, Dakki, Red Logo to name a few.They pay high commissions for those who do smart selling and recruiting.

6. Do you have a personal computer or a mini-laptop at home? You can use these in earning extra money. Try offering to your classmates services such as cd burning, youtube downloading, typing job, powerpoint presentation, creating spreadsheet etc.

7. Are you bless with a charming face and pleasing personality? You can also try to apply to some advertising agencies that hire part time t.v commercial models. This can be your stepping stone to a fulfilling career in the future.

These are just seven ideas on how you, a pinoy college student can earn extra money to pay your tuition fees in school. Thus these opportunities remind us that financial problems shouldn't be the reason why we should stop prioritizing our  education.

Though I hate chemistry subject, it does not mean that I am also hating my professor too. In fact, one of my favorite professor in NCST is Ma'am Tiongson, a chemical engineer. Last Friday, she gave us an assignment, it must be written or typewritten in a short bondpaper. The assignment includes: What is metallic property, non metallic property, atomic size, ionic size etc.

Thanks to the internet sources and the chemistry book I bought in school. I finished my assignment in less than 15 minutes.  Let me share to you my answers:

Metallic Property- The general properties of metal include malleability and ductility and most are strong and durable.  

Non metallic property- brittle, non ductile, do not possess metallic luster, transparent as a thin sheet solids, liquids, or gases at room temperature.  

Atomic size- the size of an atom depends on how far away its outermost (valence) electrons are from the nucleus. If they are very close to the nucleus, the atom will be very small. If they are far away, the atom will be quite a bit larger. So the atomic size is determined by how much space the electrons take up.  

Ionic Size- is the size of the atom after it loses its outermost electron (after the first Ionization Energy)  

Ionization Energy – is the energy required to completely remove an electron from a gaseous atom or ion.  

Electron Affinity- reflects the ability of an atom to accept an electron. It is the energy change that occurs when an electron is added to a gaseous state.  

Electronegativity- is a measure of the attraction of an atom for the electrons in a chemical bond. 

Chemical Bonding- the joining of two or more atoms forms chemical compounds.  

Two types of Chemical Bonds- Covalent bond in which one or more pairs of electrons are shared by two atoms. And ionic bond in which one or more electrons from one atom are removed and attached to another atom, resulting in + and – ions which attract each other. 

I hope this help you in defining metallic property, non metallic property, ionic size, atomic size etc. Goodluck to your score.

Back in 2003, I decided to stopped my college schooling because of some financial problems. Though I don't have regrets why I did it, I still feel unsatisfied with what I have achieved as an individual, I feel that I still lack something. I am already 26 years old now, already done working with some BPO companies in the Philippines for almost five years of my life and currently have my own small business, an internet cafe. But despite of these huge achievements that I have now, I still feel that I need to go back to school to finish my college course AB Comm.

Join me in my journey, this blog will contain some of the important lessons that I am learning from college. Assignments, projects, school presentation, events etc. Even some of my sentiments and honest opinion about my school NCST will be noted here.