Jessa Dawn Odtohan Baldecir

Approaching a transferee student

Starting at a new school is always nerve-racking, no matter how old you are, how outgoing you
are, and even how many people you already know at your new school. Making friends as a
transfer student isn’t the same as making friends as a freshman. In freshman year, everyone is
new, so everyone is trying to make friends at the same time. As a transfer student, you’re the new
person trying to fit into a community that’s already established itself.

As an incoming freshman at your previous college, there might’ve been a welcome committee
ready to take you around campus and help you move into your dorm. There was probably a
welcome week packed with activities meant just for new students, where you could meet 20
people in one night (or if you’re like me, work up the the courage to speak to even two or three).

Even if your new college has a transfer welcome week, it’s just not the same as a freshman year
welcome week. You’re older, and feel like maybe you should know how to be a college student…
right?

Starting at a new school is always challenging, sometimes in ways you don’t expect.

I will start a good conversation.

I will approach her/him by the use of soft words, greetings and a sweet smile. I will make him/her
feel that she/he is welcome to our room and I am willing to be his/her friend. As a student, we don't
only learn about certain things. We also learn how to approach others and make friends. Because
I believe making friends is one of the most important thing you can do to enhance your social
interaction with others. To be added, being close to others makes your everyday life more happy.
Jessa Dawn Odtohan Baldecir

Grade 12-Mercury

Additional Activities

B.LUZVIMINDA PROJECT

Lualhati Torres Bautista is a Filipina writer, novelist, liberal activist and political critic. Her most popular novels
include Dekada '70; Bata, Bata, Pa'no Ka Ginawa?; and ‘GAPÔ.

Born: 2 December 1945 (age 75 years), Tondo

Alma mater: Lyceum of the Philippines University

Awards: Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story in Filipino, Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Novel in
Filipino

Parents: Esteban Bautista, Gloria Torres

Erlinda Kintanar Alburo is a prolific contemporary Cebuano language scholar and promoter of the language. She is
the former Director of the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos, Philippines. She is an active
member of Women in Literary Arts, and writes poetry both in English and cebuano. Wikipedia

Born: 20 February 1946 (age 75 years), Argao

Education: Silliman University

Books: Dulaang Cebuano, MORE

Edited works: Dictionary of Bisayan Arts: Cebuano-Hiligaynon-Waray.

Kristine Ong Muslim (b. September 18, 1980) is an author, translator, and anthologist who grew up and continues
to live in a rural town in southern Philippines. Her books include The Drone Outside (Eibonvale Press, 2017), Black
Arcadia (University of the Philippines Press, 2017), Meditations of a Beast (Cornerstone Press, 2016), Butterfly
Dream (Snuggly Books, 2016), Age of Blight (Unnamed Press, 2016), and Lifeboat (University of Santo Tomas
Publishing House, 2015). Widely anthologized, Muslim’s short stories were published in Conjunctions, Dazed Digital,
and World Literature Today and translated into Bulgarian, French, Polish, and Serbian. 

She co-edited the British Fantasy Award-winning anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! (2016)
and Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy, 2021). She is also the
translator of many bilingual editions, including Marlon Hacla’s Melismas (Oomph Press, 2020) and Mesándel Virtusio
Arguelles’s Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems (University of the Philippines Press, 2021) and Three Books (Broken
Sleep Books, 2020). 
Jessa Dawn Odtohan Baldecir

Grade 12-Mercury

What I Have Learned

Activity 2: Write Me Up

2. All the types of literature are applicable to my research study.

The literature you should use should be closely related to your research topic. You review this
literature as it will assist you with appropriate concepts and theories to underpin your research.
The literature will also offer you technical terms for use in this type of research.

Some research literature will give you insights into the type of research methodology that you can
adopt for your study. Other researchers who studied on the topic you are currently studying, had
successfully employed certain methodology, which you can adopt, including the research
instrument such as the questionnaire, to enable you to collect the data.

Some research journal literature, will give you the insights into past researchers had done in your
topic, and what are yet to be done, so you can do it.

Some appropriate literature will teach you how to design your research project, introduce you to
the scientific research concepts, skills and tools (statistics for the testing of your hypotheses,
computer programme to use in analysing your data), to enable you to do your research
successfully.

Let me give you an example as to the literature you may use to study the importance of leadership
for a given service business. The literature you are likely to use, will be those that inform on the
concepts and theories and styles of leadership. They may be text on leadership, styles of
leadership and associated leadership.

You will also need to review research journal literature which gives you insights on how best to
conduct this type of research in the service context which you will do your research. Since past
researchers have successfully conducted their research in this, area, you will have some sign-
posts and guidelines to follow, for your current study on the importance of leadership.

If you are doing a quantitative study for your research, you are likely to develop hypotheses and
test them with statistics, so you are likely to refer to texts on statistics if you are unsure.