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Lecture Series 2023

On April 19, 2023, the Business Administration Department of Central Mindanao University conducted its semestral lecture series at the University Convention Center-CMU. As someone whos currently taking the subject Entrepreneurial Mind, we are required to join the lecture. So for this blog, expect my takeaways from that program.

The announcement for this program is kind of late, so yeah, we don't have that much time to prepare for it. We actually don't have that much idea what will happen on the program, and we are all super drowsy because of the early call time🥹.

We arrived at the UCC at 7 a.m. because we were told to, but what a bummer that the program starts at about 8 a.m🫠. Anyway, the first speaker is Dr. Gameleila A. Dumancas, and her topic is mainly about the importance of protecting our intellectual property and why we should register our innovations and businesses. She also included jokes and hugot on her discusion which is kinda helpful because again most of us are supper dowsy that time because of lack of sleep and we havent even eat breakfast yet. It's actually kind of hard to focus at that time, so at that program, Im literally fighting myself to not sleep and just be a responsible student huhu.

The second speaker, Prof. Sheila Poonon, arrives, and her topic is incubating innovation. She discusses the opportunities that we may have in doing start-ups, which are mostly related to the first speaker's topic.

And now for the last speaker, Ms. Keren Happuch Lacadin. Her topic is the start-up ecosystem, and by this time, not gonna lie, we just really want this to end, just look at my classmate at my back😭😭, but anyways what makes it interesting is that she didn't discuss that much about what the start up ecosystem really means but rather told us about her experiences in this.

For this lecture series, what I have learned most is to be patient and resilient. I will never forget when Ms. Lacadin told us about her experiences building her name in the startup ecosystem. She'd gone through ups and downs, mostly downs in the beginning. but that is really different from what she is right now; she uses those downs, turns them into lessons, and applies them as a guide to her current goals. This experience of hers gave me hope in what Im doing: to just be resilient because your time will come. Sometimes time will not follow you the way you want it to, but you do have a time, and that time will come when you're ready and if you already deserve it.

So overall, that lecture series gives us lessons not just about the subject but also about life.

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Point of Pain

So... another thought week for us. Another "you should pull yourself together or you'll be doomed" week We have quizzes on almost every day of this week and also several activities. But the major one we did is that we're tasked to go interview random people again for our empathy map on our subject in entrepreneurial mind. Our goal for this interview is to know the point of pain or gain of the students here at Central Mindanao University and to find a solution to that problem with regards to their answers and suggestions. So we went out together as a group but interviewed people one by one.  We interviewed people in CAS Extension, which is in our college, and other parts of the school. So the people we interviewed are either CAS students or not. 

The results of our interview is not going to lie; that's what I'm expecting them to be. The problem or point of pain for most students is the distance of their colleges from the market, which could affect their time and energy. And the reason why they would go to the market is, of course, to buy foods or supplies. Since we found out that most of my blockmates venture into solving problems in the food convenience part of their business, we, our group, focus more on the point of pain for buying supplies, specifically school supplies. We chose a business to help students at least have a convenient place to buy school supplies at an affordable price. So we proposes, GAMIT SULIT school supply vending machine. 

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Rejection Therapy

A lot of stuff happened within the past week—a lot of topics that were taught, a lot of quizzes and activities, and a lot of travel. It’s tiring, but I'm not gonna lie, it's fun in a different way. So one topic or activity is assigned to us, and that is to do the rejection therapy. We are task to ask questions to random stranger that is answerable by no. The first thing that came to mind once I heard this was, "No, my social anxiety cannot!" Luckily, my group is full of extroverts. But it's like the pressure is now on; either I’ll be confident because they are confident or not because they are too confident.

So now we need to choose a location to conduct this social experiment-type activity. While most of the class preferred to stay on the school's premises, our group likes to go to other unique places. So I suggested why not we go to Lake Pinamaloy in Don Carlos, and these spontaneous and extrovert people agreed as soon as I said it. Before we went to the lake, our group had no budget for it at all, but we really wanted to go there. So we do the most famous thing here at CMU: hitchhiking. This is where the fun part happens. While asking for a ride, putting our thumbs up, we got rejected several times. We haven't started our actual rejection therapy yet, but we have already been rejected several times. Luckily, there are people who are generous enough to give us a free ride, so from here in Musuan, we hitchhike until Don Carlos.

Now the actual rejection therapy happens. Being an introvert is such a bummer. But in this activity, approaching people is a must, so I'll try my best to hide my trembling self. I'm an expert at pretending to be cool anyway HAHA just kidding. When it was my turn to ask random strangers, I could literally sense the annoyance on my groupmate's face because I kept saying I couldn't, but at the same time they kept encouraging me, saying that I could do it. So act cool. Act cool. At first, I could hear myself stuttering if I asked a question, but later on, I could say I got used to it. I successfully asked several people, and luckily enough, they gave a yes answer to the questions.

Sooooo, moral of the story HAHA. Face your fear, indeed. Since this activity is a requirement, I have no choice but to do it. But then later I realized it really is fun, especially if you do it with the people you are comfortable with, which are my groupmates. And yes, that is a glimpse of last week's happenings. Thanks for reading.