VALUES

EDUCATION
FINAL
REQUIREMENT

Submitted by:
Ella Mae Joyce M.
Ombao
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER V: CHAPTER VI:

WORK WORK ETHICS

When you’re How do you deal

balancing multiple
projects, how do you
with pressure or
keep yourself stressful
organized? situations?

CHAPTER VII: CHAPTER VIII:

VALUE AND PERSONALITY
PERSONALITY AND YOUR
PROFESSION
Would you rather
have a quiet dinner
with a few friends or What is one of your
party with 100 greatest
friends? achievements?
CHAPTER V:
WORK
 When you’re balancing
multiple projects, how do
you keep yourself
organized?

As a college student, especially an

education student, having a lot of projects,
sometimes with almost the same deadline, is
unavoidable. I think one of the most challenging
tasks as a college student is to be able to have
great time management at anything. This is the
key that I always use to survive every semester
without any problems.
Ever since I was an elementary student I
carry an extra notebook which I always named
“My Schedule Notebook”. At the back of that
notebook, I am always listing the given projects
and their deadlines. I make sure that I am listing
them in order, from the nearest deadline to the
farthest one. While the entire page of that
notebook is being used every day because I am
always writing what I have to do for the whole
day. I always write the tasks that I needed to
accomplish for a day.
 When you’re balancing
multiple projects, how do
you keep yourself
organized?

For example, if tomorrow is Tuesday,

today is Monday, I will be writing at night in that
notebook, the tasks that I will be doing for
Tuesday. I am always planning ahead of the day.
I also do this TIME BLOCKING system per task,
depending on its difficulty. I am assigning a
certain amount of time. If it is an easy task, I
make sure I will finish it in one sitting. If it is a
hard task, I allot 1 hour and 30 minutes to do
that every day, until I finished it.
I also avoid doing tasks when the
deadline is near. I always count and check my
calendar regarding the deadlines I should meet.
I am always making sure too, that I start
working on a certain project, 2 or 3 weeks
before the given deadline.
Additionally, I created my own bulletin
board in front of my study table. On that
bulletin board, I have a calendar, the schedule
 When you’re balancing
multiple projects, how do
you keep yourself
organized?

of my subjects and sticky notes posted. My

calendar has different colored sticky notes that I
used for marking the important dates. Aside
from the list in my schedule notebook, I also put
marks on my calendar just to keep myself being
reminded and avoid forgetting any dates. While
the sticky notes on my bulletin board are being
used for the activities, projects, assignments,
and other tasks per subject. One sticky note per
subject and I paste those in front of me and
every time I finish one task under that subject, I
put a checkmark on it. That is another way of
seeing how far I already progressed.
Those are the things that I am always
doing and checking every day to keep myself
organized when balancing multiple projects. I
never crammed in my entire life because
honestly, I hate it. I do not like being filled up
with too many tasks. If I can do it now, I make
 When you’re balancing
multiple projects, how do
you keep yourself
organized?

sure that I will do it now. For me, time is very

important. I should be wise on how to use it. If I
know that I have a lot of things to do, I never
put myself on a long rest. An hour or less break
was already good for me. It is very hard to do a
lot of projects when the deadline is already
around the corner. When we rush things, the
quality of the output is declining.
To survive, I push myself to be organized
and make sure that I never forget to manage my
time purposively. Studying is hard and I think
studying became harder because of
procrastination. If you can do things for a day, if
you are going to make sure you progress your
work a day, studying will remain hard and will
no longer go harder, much worst, hardest.
Bravely, I will always say NO to
PROCRASTINATION and CRAMMING!
CHAPTER VI:
WORK ETHICS
 How do you deal
with pressure or
stressful situations?

When I have a lot of things in mind in

addition to a lot of things to do and
accomplish, I cannot help but feel the pressure
and stress. Things like, “what if I was not able
to finish all of these?” came to my mind, but I
am not letting myself be drowned in those
thoughts. Whenever I am already feeling that I
am stress, I stay quiet for a while. I sing
sometimes and sometimes, just calmly
listening to music. Especially, I am listening to
motivational songs like “Today My Life Begins”
by Bruno Mars, “Break Free”, and “Fight Song”.
When I feel like I am being suffocated inside
my study room, I go out for a while to rest,
then I will come back and start moving again.

At night, when the day became so hard,

I pray and surrender my worries to God. There
are times that my cure for stress and pressure
 How do you deal
with pressure or
stressful situations?

is not really working, like singing, listening to

motivational songs, drinking coffee, or going
out for a while. Whenever that happens, I
surrender what I am feeling to God, and the
next day when I wake up, I feel lighter like the
day did not become hard yesterday.

I think I have no certain method of

dealing with stress. It always changes every
time depending on the situation. One thing is
for sure, I am always setting my mind that I
should never lose with stress. That I should
cope with it and deal with it. I am keeping
myself as optimistic as I could because I know
stress will not stay with me forever.

Stress is a silent battle for everyone,

including the pressure too. That is why I set my
mind that if I have to be in battles along my
 How do you deal
with pressure or
stressful situations?

way, then I should be at the wounded warrior,

not the fallen ones. I can accept being
wounded and defeated, at least I can stand
again, rest, and then join the battle again while
trying to win again, unlike the situation if I
became the fallen one, this simply means I give
up, which I will never do.

I may not have a fixed process of

dealing with pressure and stressful situations,
but I know that these things are something
that should be defeated and eliminated every
time it appears. That I just have to be myself
and believe in myself that whatever it is and
no matter how hard it is, I can get through it,
because I am already halfway there.
CHAPTER VII:
VALUE AND
PERSONALITY
 Would you rather have a
quiet dinner with a few
friends or a party with 100
friends?
I am a type of person who is not a party-
goer. In reality, I do much love being a
homebody, staying at home, and being with my
family. So if I am going to choose, I rather have
a quiet dinner with a few friends and let me
state the reasons why.

First, I really don’t have a lot of friends. A

few but high-quality friends only. I may be
talking comfortably with a lot of people, but not
all of them are my friends. When I started to
grow older, I realized I should be hitting quality
over quantity. These few friends are one of the
people whom I treasure the most. Having a
quiet dinner with them, I think, will make us
both happy. Simple yet we can talk about a lot
of things. Just us again, like what we did when
we were still high school students. We really
love that, happiness in silence.
 Would you rather have a
quiet dinner with a few
friends or a party with 100
friends?
Second, having a party with 100 friends
may be fun because it’s loud and there are
many people, yet the question is, will it be
deep? It is unlike a quiet dinner, in which you
can really talk about a lot of things with a high
level of comfortability.

Aside from that, all of us cannot take

being surrounded by a lot of people with
whom we cannot be our real selves.

What I am trying to say is that I have a

different point of view when it comes to
happiness. It is not about how loud your
laughter can be and it is not about how many
people you can see. Happiness is already about
simplicity. About being fulfilled over simple,
little things. About feeling great in silence.
About seeing few yet real people. Happiness is
 Would you rather have a
quiet dinner with a few
friends or a party with 100
friends?

already about the antonym of the definition, I

know when I was elementary.

Everything hits different now. The

thirst I have, then, for parties, is something I
really do not want to do now. Rather, I started
loving staying with a few friends in simple
setups, wearing simple clothes, and eating
simple foods. All of those things, for me, are
worth treasuring and repeating for. Maybe
because, I am an adult now, not a kid anymore,
that I define things and view things differently
the way I used to define and view them to be.
 CHAPTER VIII:
PERSONALITY AND
YOUR PROFESSION
 What is one of your
greatest achievements?

One of my greatest achievements, as of

now, is none other than being a member of my
family. It is a privilege for me to belong to a
family that is not rich when it comes to money,
but rich when it comes to love and care. It is an
achievement for me because it is something
that I can brag about and be proud of. It is
something that I achieved with a blessing from
God. I never work for it, yet when I opened my
eyes to belong in the world on January 16,
2002, suddenly I already belong to this family
who foster pure love and stand as my leader
and back up in my battles, reaching my
dreams.

They are my achievement because they

are my driving force in living within my dreams
so that I can turn them into reality. They are
the reason why I want to achieve other things.
 What is one of your
greatest achievements?

They are my inspiration and my source of

strength. They are a great achievement that
does not have any monetary value yet was
gold and something I will cherish forever.

Having them is more than the feeling of

winning a lottery or having tons of gold medals
and millions of certificates. I have no specific
tangible thing I have that can represent this
achievement but none other than presenting
myself. Because I was from this family, I was a
fruit of this family, the only trophy that I can
display when they ask for proof of this great
achievement is myself and now, I am still
working and in the process of becoming and
molding myself so that this trophy will best fit
the definition of my family.

Every single day I was grateful and will

 What is one of your
greatest achievements?

Be forever grateful that God rewarded me with

this achievement when I still cannot do
anything but cry. That He gave me a blessing
when I was not able to achieve anything. When
He gave me this family for free, as my first
treasure when the first day I breathe as a
person.

Now, it’s my time to prove that I am

worth for receiving this intangible, great,
wonderful, undefined expensiveness, pure,
loving, caring, savior, more than of gold and
long-lasting achievement.
 VALUES
EDUCATION
FINAL
REQUIREMENT

Submitted by:
Ella Mae Joyce M.
Ombao