Setting Up (Unit 1-BASIC CONCEPTS)_____________________________________________________________________

Name: Miccu S. Navarro Score: ___________________

Course/Year/Section: BSCE-2A Date: 02/09/2022

A. Directions: Answer the given question base on your existing knowledge about the lesson.
1. Recall a personal experience in dealing with problems and analyze how they are rooted in
Filipino qualities. In hindsight, recommend how you could have done things differently.

Since I was a grade 4 student, my parents went abroad for the same reason everyone else has.
To have more income to support their children. Since then, I lived with my siblings with a very limited
monthly budget. At that time, I wasn’t so aware. I used to sell lata, karton and plastic bottles to buy
everything I want from the sari-sari store. I even tried having kape using over boiled rice. And even had
payless instant mami as an ulam. I thought life was just like that. My Kuya graduated and passed the
Nursing Licensure Exam, then my Ate left to work in Manila, then I lived with my grandparents. Soon,
both my Ate and Kuya, also went abroad together with our parents. In short, no one was there to guide
me going through college. My Lolo said I should accountancy because it is highly in demand. And what
do I know about the world? Nothing. So, I took it.

Three semesters, Dean’s Lister, I didn’t know what hit me, but I decided I couldn’t continue.
There’s something in me that says “this is not what I want. I cannot do this.”. I talked to my parents and
shifted to study Civil Engineering, this was way back 2013. I thought I could get whatever I wanted. I was
so confident that my parents were so understanding, and that I could not do anything wrong. This is
where I started to drift off a little bit. I wasn’t attending classes just because nahihiya ako dahil mas bata
mga kaklase ko sakin. Or even “just because”. I was paying professors just to pass the subject without
even attending their classes. I was proud of what I did, frankly until now I am a little bit. But I wish I did
not do it back then. I was kind of bahala na. Okay lang naman. I know I am the bunso so I thought
they’ll just let go of whatever will happen. I wasn’t studying well, I trusted my knowledge about math, so
I thought it was all easy. On my 3 rd semester at the CE course, one professor gave me a grade of 5,
singko, bagsak. My father wanted me to stop studying. But my brother convinced him that it was his
responsibility to give us a proper education no matter what happens. I was begging to continue
studying, and promised to fix everything. But then he said maybe I could not do Civil Engineering, so I
was forced to study IT instead. It was fine. I can do it. But my heart wasn’t into it. I lasted only two
semester. Then I tried applying for work abroad. By this time, I could have finished one course. But in
the span of 4 years, I took 3 course and didn’t finish anything. I could not find any work. So I took 2
vocational courses instead. I thought I did better. Again, bahala na. Okay lang naman. Applied again for
work. Then started working at the age of 21. Abroad. Alone. Because when I started to work abroad, my
parents and siblings went back to Philippines for good. And again, no one was there to guide me. I was
spending almost all of my salary, and not saving anything. Kumbaga, sinusulit ko na, kasi ala naman
akong binubuhay na pamilya. I was buying everything I wanted even if I don’t need it. And again, bahala
na. Okay lang naman.

Then at the age of 23, I started my own family. Looking back, I wish I finished studying. I wish I
stayed focused on my studies. I wished hindi ako nahiya just because mas matanda ako sa mga
classmates ko noon. If I only that I would go back and study again, I could have just finished it back then.
Hindi sana ako pumetiks. However, I am still proud of my self for having the courage to continue
studying. Even though there is this huge age gap between me and my classmates, I wasn’t so scared to
talk to them at all. Even though my batch mates back then are now my professors, I wasn’t shy that I am
their student today. I am glad I did drifted a little for if not, I would not have Gabby - my daughter, here
with me taking all my stress away from my studies.