Maskomportable sa Bahay, a common term to define students who pursue Mass Communication in college. A joke that seems to be a stereotyped definition for Maskom which in its literal sense connotes the exact opposite.

I was at first in doubt upon pursuing that particular degree. Basically because of the stereotyped notions about the course – that, it is a course for those students who have no future plans in life, for those who don’t want to struggle difficulties in college – a reason why it is called Maskomportable sa bahay, for those who are indefinite of the career they want to pursue and for those who are just finding a course for the sake of having one – yes there are such stereotyped notions that once hinders me from pursuing the course but life still guided me upon going and pursuing that track.

Mass Communication as I ride together with its curriculum (I refer to the subjects offered by the degree) is something that holds my interests into. Upon enrollment in FEU I was about to enroll a degree in Fine arts where I could possible unleash my creative prowess, but it’s high tuition fee diverted me to IAS where the Communication syllabus offers some of the programs at a lower cost – that’s the time that I finally decided that I’ll be pursuing Maskom!

As years progresses I am little by little loving the course that I feel so attached to it. It is in Maskom that I learned to be versatile, objective and creative. It is also in Maskom that I realized the true essence of hardwork in order to gain success and it is upon this 4 years that I have realized how wrong the term Maskomportable sa bahay is.

Needless to say more, Staying up to 10pm in school for rehearsals, Tons of overnights for projects and reports, going to school on school vacations, finding famous people to interview, raising 60+ thousand for a single school project, toxic lifestyle while running in and out of the university and walking up and down the school buildings to find and deliver stuff truly is Maskomportable sa bahay isn’t it?

Nevertheless all of these has molded me into a better person. Something that I really owe upon being a Maskom student that I would never ever regret in my entire life. And I live by the Maskom Ideology that – we don’t just talk to make noise, we talk with sense. GO FEU MASKOM!

 

September 26th, 2008 by jorcatiis Jorelle Frank Catiis is a Senior Mass Communication student of Far Eastern University. Currently he is the Publicity head of the Oratorical and Debate Council-Public Speaking Chamber and Features Editor of The Paragon, The Institute of Arts and Sciences' official news publication. Also he is the official student graphic artist of the IAS-student council and member of the UCCO's Peer Counselors Group. Check his personal multiply site @ frostedshadow.multiply.com.