Today, we had our defense for our feasibility study. Finally, we are going to finish it once and for all. I woke early to read our proposal. It's good to read right after waking up because our minds are refreshed from sleep and you can actually absorb information. As I was reading, I noticed that out projected demand is missing another year. It forcasted years 2015-2019, but our proposal should be 2016-2020. I was a bit worried that our professor will notice it so I took a piece of paper and wrote down my computations for the projected demand. Since we don't have projected supply and projected demand-supply gap, I took the chance to compute those too.
Our prof required us to have nametags so I made one using last year's calendar (it has a card board material on) for reinforcement and a bond paper. For a girl, I don't have the prettiest handwriting, so I just tried my best to write my name. I'm not that great in cutting too, so it looks kinda rushed and awkward.
Hours later, I got ready and went to school. It's suppose to be a holiday because it is "Biñan Day", but we really need to do this in order to finish our hardships.
While waiting for the defense to start I was reading. Then suddenly, our prof came out to brief us on what to do during the defense. She told us that we each have 5 minutes to discuss about what we know about our proposed business, and should give complete information about it. It will be taken via video because our prof doesn't want to evaluate on our discussion, she wants other people to evaluate it (she said she doesn't want to be subjective). It is not the usual Q&A like a typical defense, it's just a short discussion. The worst part is that it is done individually and I felt halfly nervous about it. Luckily, we were picked as the fifth group to discuss so I was able to practice what to say.
A couple of hours later, it was near our turn. I was still practicing my pitch but I get lost in what to say. And then it was our turn. Individuals shall discuss alphabetically, and to think my name starts with the letter A. But luckily, another one of us has "Ar" as their first couple of letters, and mine starts with "As" so I was second to speak.
But since it is 5 minutes per person, it was my turn already. My heart was racing and my hands were shaking but I kept calm. When the person handling the camera signaled me to start, I began to speak.
To tell you the truth, I think I didn't do well. It felt like I was just rambling and I kept stuttering but not too much. I only managed to consume 4 minutes and I didn't told everything that I wanted to say. It was a bit worrying but after that it felt like some weight was lifted off my shoulders. I felt more at ease, but I shouldn't relax yet because there were consultations after everybody did their pitch.
During the consultation I was worried that our prof will mention about our projected demand, or that there is a lack of projected supply and projected demand-supply gap, but she didn't because she went to our financial study. It seems she was satisfied with the output, though there needs to be some editing and other stuff. She said that she wants a final paper with our completion form (form to complete our subject), and pass it to her.
After that one of my groupmates looked a bit upset and ranted to us something. I couldn't hear what that person said but he left right away. I went outside to wait for my boyfriend to pick me up. I sat next to the guy who was upset. He was talking to his friends but after a few minutes, he told me that we should've worked the financial study together so that we know something about it. He also said that I'm the leader and I should get some cooperation from my group. Well I guess I know why he was upset, it's because when our prof asked something about the financial, he is the only one that could answer. I felt a bit sad because it's true that I barely know anything about the financial study and he was the one that did it. He also complained that if he takes too long, we'd get mad at him, and in my mind I thought, "But, I'm not even mad at you if you take long it's just them." I know how time consuming doing the finances are.
I kept quite after a while and went on. I was about to go home until my friends stopped me so that we could take pictures together. I couldn't resist because it's the memories that count anyway. So we took some photos and chatted for a while until it is time for me to go home.
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| Photos from Jaydine Love Marcale |
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