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"What did you say again?"

Completed the three on-the-job training settings required in my college program: clinical, industrial, and educational. From there I was hoping to find what I really want to pursue for the future but it didn't really happen. Though I did find interest in career counseling, especially when our college counselor talked about how there are different ways that people choose the career they are happy with. One example I remember was that some people choose a career that would make their parents happy. Another example from her and another counselor was just to try things out until you find something you really like. People tend to stress the "Have a career doing what you like!" idea and that just made me feel like I should be decided on what I want to do in life while in college or immediately after graduating from college. Also, when it comes to that idea, I'd probably be okay with a job relating to forensic stuff but when it comes to arts I might not be okay. Currently, I draw based on whether I'm motivated or not and that would be difficult with deadlines. Hopefully this changes though.

Was the leader of our test construction group and thesis group! My thesis groupmates are my friends and it's really nice talking with them. I tried to be open in telling them things though there were still times I held back. It's fun being with them too, whether for thesis meetings or just to hang out. :D

Test construction and thesis days were stressful yet fun (at times, haha). I stuck a lot with the paper writing and statistics because I was very weak at the survey/test administration aspect. The people who answered our surveys were both people we knew and didn't know. For test construction we had college students for our respondents and for our thesis we had workers as our respondents. I would walk around malls asking workers if they would like to answer our survey. Some answered, some didn't. Still, I'm thankful for all the people who I encountered during these times.

During test construction we went to Laguna (because our groupmate had a contact person there) from Manila to have someone validate our test again since there were too many items taken out from our first validation.

In 3rd year college I was finally allowed to have an overnight stay at a college friend's house! It was for thesis/test construction stuff but still!!! I had many more of those usually because of thesis and test construction meetings. There was one meeting where we still didn't have a final thesis topic and we just ended up playing Cards Against Humanity, hahaha.

Also got to have an overnight stay at a high school friend's house! :D It was really fun and it made me feel at peace, spending time with them like that. I would love to have another one of those in the future. :)

Went to a spa with these high school friends recently! It was really fun!!! :D We were supposed to go to the Star City Adventure Zone but went with the nearby spa in the end. I ended up getting home past 2 am though. T___T

THE RETREAT DURING MY 4TH YEAR IN COLLEGE WAS THE GREATEST. I miss the place a lot. It was really peaceful there and the reatreat was so chill, I loved it so much.

Become a part of an art exhibit during the College of Science's college week! It was really fun, though like with the previous exhibits I was part of (mostly interactive exhibits to showcase our college program), I didn't really do well in entertaining guests. It seems like they'll have the art exhibit again next school year. Seems like they're also planning to make an organization focused on arts in the College of Science. That's wonderful to hear but I wish I could be a part of that organization. :<

Started using Paint Tool Sai for drawing digitally after seeing it used by the people in the exhibit! It's a really cool software! Also, my friend helped me out by telling me to install a pen tablet driver. After installing it my pen tablet has pen pressure again!!! :D

Graduated from my course of BS Psychology and as a Cum Laude, yay!!! :D From 2nd choice wait listed (this is entirely my fault because I didn't study) to Cum Laude! @ SELF: YOU DID IT KID!!!

Currently unemployed and trying to study for the Psychometrician board exams. I get too lazy to read sometimes so I tried listening to and watching lectures I found online. I figured it would be ok since I usually watch videos when I'm not studying anyway. It's quite nice but there are still some topics missing so I just have to fill those in by finding more lectures/videos or actually reading on the topic, haha. The drawing above is prompted by this experience, haha. Looking at the previous bullet, I really need to put in more effort into studying. GOOD LUCK @ SELF, YOU CAN DO IT!!!