someone buy a pair of jumbo-ish jet rockets and attach 'em to the philippines. its time to blast this archipelago a few thousand latitudes higher into the northern hemisphere.

demmit.

is it hot or what?

~*~

to escape the wrath of haring araw, my mutti, ate cheska, and i went to megamall yesterday. we dropped my little sister talia at her best friend's pad in palmera, and tried to avoid the authorities (color coding sucks so much) as best as we could.

i finally opened up to my mom about my college plans. i'd been thinking about it for quite a while, ever since my ate gave me a copy of the UP app form.

i want(ed?) to apply in AC and UST too (besides lasalle, ateneo, and up) because they have an amazing curriculum for marketing and advertising courses.

needless to say, she nearly ripped my head off. (or should i say heart?) she verbally (oh, the best way she knows how) attacked my character, shouting for the whole figaro house to hear, that i only wanted to apply in UST and AC not because i actually WAS serious about wanting to go there, but because i wanted to feel the glory of passing a lot of schools.

how effin convoluted is that?!

i mean... REALLY?

who the hell would think of something so effin diabolical?

...siya. duh.

so life lesson number 1, 795, 395 (right after life lesson number 1, 795, 394: do not go caving during your second day of menstruation) learned: do not tell your mother about your plans for the future.

if you don't want to cry right after, that is.

~*~

acck.

i hate this house, 'home', prison, whatever.

i wonder if i could run away tomorrow... won't come home after my gimmick with my barkada.

that sounds pathetic. even to me.

haaay...

i'm excited, nontheless... about the things tomorrow shall bring.

~*~

...was browsing through the net, stumbled on a lot of college websites...

i thought it'd be easier to choose a course once i know the whole lot of 'em, with the explanations and crap.

HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT'D ACTUALLY BE A BIT HARDER?!

so now i just have to narrow down my choices of 500 million down to 2 or 3.

1. University of the Philippines

Diliman
a. Business Administration
b. BS Psychology

Manila
a. Biology
b. Public Health

>>site didn't expound on the courses... i guess i have to go to up to get the brochure or something... SIGH.

2. Ateneo de Manila University

a. BS Communications Technology Management

The ComTech Program is an interdisciplinary program that incorporates courses from the fields of mass communication, computer science, and telecommunications into the business curriculum to create managers who are conversant with the creative processes as well as the technological tools that are an integral part of the modern-day communication process. Students enrolled in this program will be exposed to the communications theories and to the technology that is driving today’s information society.

ComTech is especially designed to increase the pool of trained managers for the country’s burgeoning communications industry and is an excellent preparation for careers in marketing, advertising, public relations, media management, and the management of telecommunications firm.

b. BS Legal Management

The Legal Management Program is designed to create managers with a working knowledge of the legal environment within which all enterprises must operate. On top of the regular business curriculum is added a law-curriculum that will cover all major components of law encountered in business, such as: obligations and contracts, taxation, labor laws, laws on business organization.
Although not primarily designed to be a preparation for law school, it has also proven to be an excellent preparation for formal law studies.

Students enrolled in the Legal Management Program also have the option to complete minor programs in Marketing, Finance, International Business, Information Technology, Strategic Human Resources Management and Decision Science.

c. BS Management

The Management program of the Ateneo is designed to develop in our students the sort of entrepreneurial eye and attitude that will help them to see opportunities where others might see problems, to innovate where others might be contented to simply keep things the same, to say "I will do it" where others might say "I wish someone would do this".
To achieve this, the major curriculum of the program is heavily project-oriented, with an emphasis on experiential and hands-on learning, rather than just classroom based and textbook learning. The centerpiece of the program is a culminating (and integrating) project where students are organized into groups of five or six in senior year and asked to actually run a microbusiness for the entire year. Upon graduation, it is our intention that our students should have the requisite skills in the various business disciplines necessary to efficiently and effectively manage an organization. More importantly, they should have the sort of entrepreneurial attitude and outlook that will help them to be effective change agents, innovators and leaders, whether as founders if their own business ventures, or as managers in the largest multinational corporations.

The Honors program in Management has the same educational objectives as the Standard program, but it is a more rigorous targeted at the top 10 percent of all entering students. it will cover essentially the same disciplines as the Standard program, but in greater depth and breadth. Students who have successfully completed the program often find that the discipline, resourcefulness and creativity that they develop in working to meet the program requirements, and the constant drive to achieve their best possible output in all that they do, are the most important things they take with them upon graduation.

Students enrolled in either of these two programs also have the option to complete an area if minor concentration. The School of Management presently offers minors in Marketing, Finance, International Business, Information Technology, Strategic Human Resources Management and Decision Science.

d. BS Psychology

The BS program functions as a training ground for students who want to combine their interests in human behavior and the natural sciences, such as biology, zoology, physics, chemistry, and environmental science. The program may serve as preparation for further studies in medicine.

MA Major in Psychology, Concentration in Social and Community Psych

The Social and Community Psychology program trains students to understand social issues using interpersonal/intergroup theories and research. Examples of such issues are peace and conflict, environment, gender, poverty, national development, governance and political change. Students learn to design and implement intervention in social systems, maximizing knowledge that is culturally embedded in local practices. Graduates may work in various academic, government and social development settings as teachers, researchers, trainors and human resource managers. The program is suited for students interested to pursue a career in government and non-government institutions.

e. AB Psychology

The AB program offers opportunities for the student to take a variety of electives in humanities, business management, computer science, and other areas.

3. University of Santo Tomas

a. BFA in Advertising Arts

The course introduces the basic and advance principles of design and drawing, with emphasis on the communicative aspect of the arts. The concentration is in the creative utilization of the print, television, radio and other media in the pursuit of truth and responsible advertising.

Job Opportunities: computer graphic artist for print and television industries, creative or art director for advertising agencies, book designer for publications, illustrator for books and comics, visual merchandising artist for retail shops, television/film production, in-house graphic designer, animation artist, studio artist, fashion/textile merchandiser and designer, package designer, creative and copy writer, art teacher

b. AB in Communication Arts

The course provides the student with training in communication as an art, a science and a service to the community. It teaches the ethical significance of, as well as the responsibility involved in the use of the various communications, print, radio, television- media, audio-visuals and film

Job Opportunities: account manager, public relations manager, corporate communications manager, advertising practitioner, media planner/media buyer

4. Assumption College San Lorenzo

a. BACHELOR IN COMMUNICATION

Major in Advertising and Media Production

Advertising

The major will give both the theoretical and practical preparation for careers in the advertising industry: from the small private entities to the big business organizations including the media.

Media Production

The major prepares the students for careers in the media industry: media process, creative and technical writing, research and production. This will also train students in the areas of print, broadcast, theater and film.

b. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMMERCE

Major in Marketing
The program is designed to train students to become efficient practitioners in the different areas of marketing development and promotions, product and brand management, pricing and distribution.

The curriculum design is highly innovative. It provides the individual with an in depth understanding of marketing techniques that can be applied to strengthen company growth and positioning. They develop critical analysis of how business plan organization is administered and controlled so to achieve marketing objectives.

5. De Lasalle University

The College of Business and Economics, in consonance with the Lasallian values of Religio, Mores, and Cultura, and the tradition of academic excellence of De La Salle University, is committed to the continuous pursuit of excellence in undergraduate business education responsive to the needs of national development.

Through its innovative and creative programs, the College dedicates itself to the training of students to become professional business leaders imbued with moral values and receptive to the changing demands of technology.

Its philosophy is symbolized by a triad of R's: Reputable in Business Education, Research-oriented in their professions, and Responsive in meeting the needs of Philippine society.
The College trains its students to become professional business leaders who are receptive to the changing demands of technology and who can, at the same time, give a sense of morality to the world of business. Students, therefore, acquire diverse knowledge involving subjects in the humanities and liberal arts as well as subjects related to commerce. Students can specialize in any of the seven areas offered: Accountancy, Business Management, Legal Management, Management of Financial Institutions, Marketing Management, Advertising Management, and Applied Economics.

Students who wish to acquire extensive background in both the fields of business and economics can pursue a double degree program which combines a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy or Bachelor of Science in Commerce, major in any of the other business programs. This double-degree program provides students with a theoretical as well as empirical exposure to economics, blended with the practical orientation of the tools in business analysis, management science, accountancy, finance, law, and marketing.
The best evidence of the high quality of De La Salle Business & Economics Program is the large number of its graduates who have assumed top-level positions in Philippine business and industry, and who have helped make the country more self-reliant by contributing to its economic growth.