MC Thesis Defense

  by Marz Aglipay

September 10, 2011 - Mass Communication students crowd the halls of the SP buildings anxious for their go at their one-time-big time shot at convincing their respective panels that they are worthy of receiving a passing grade for their undergraduate thesis studies.

Students were advised to be in their best uniforms or wear their lucky underwear, whichever works for them best. Some even came up with their own gimmicks which went with accord to their thesis topics. By 8:00 A.M. the first in-line for defense in their respective thesis panels and ended by 3:00P.M.

Mass Communication department garnered a number of 12-balls or a total of 100% on their thesis papers. “I did not expect to get 12 balls” said Mycka Batocabe one of the students who were given 12 balls for their thesis. She had phoned her parents after their thesis defense and her partner Angela Bautista was in tears out of sheer joy.

Despite the many success stories of the day one group of panel whose members are Mr. Real So, Atty. Agustin Aldea, and Ms. Monina Bello, being the panel chairperson. They’ve accommodated their last thesis pair by 8:00P.M. “I was sure my mother didn’t believe I was still doing my thesis defense at that time” said Charlotte Baroga who was the last pair to defend their paper.

What was difficult for this panel’s students was that most of them were asked to make major revisions which needed to happen within a week’s time while some of them were scheduled for re-defense. “Our thesis had a lot of red marks” said Jelene Sulit a student who was assigned to Ms. Bello’s panel group. Despite the short notice for revisions and representation which happened a week after the day of the defense Sulit’s group came out all smiles with 12 balls. Looking back at the experience she says “It is the biggest hurdle I had to over-come this semester”.

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