Team Miracle's Success

This morning at 9:30 am
Tuesday, 11th day of March,
we defended our Thesis Proposal for our Technical Writing Subject...

and it was alot BETTER that what we have expected from ourselves!

we call our group Team Miracle. Why and How?
On day one, when our president grouped us for this thesis/research, we never expected that we'd be grouped together; Pam, Francis, Laurie, Claire and I.
The three of us can almost be described as happy-go-lucky students because we party alot, drink every weekends and most of the time are too lazy to do school works. Claire is the only not-so-lazy person so she was really nervous about our group. She was so worried that we'd never finish, or that's we'd fall apart in the middle of doing it, or that we'd let her do all the research, typing, editing and almost everything.
That was a Tuesday night when all we did was to think and convince our president to regroup us but nothing happened. It was almost midnight when we finished discussing, arguing and admitting that we'd really be groupmates altogether.
We let go and let things happen, so we promised ourselves that we'd be doing the works fair-and-square.
One evening, when we were thinking about our title, while we were searching the internet about fun, interesting yet scientific stuffs, I stumbled upon a word which spells "MIRACLE". So i thought, since everyone of us, in our group, loves cramming, its just be good to call ourselves TEam MIRACLE.

Team Miracle - is a group of 5 cool, hot and clever college students struggling to finish their "thesis" as part of the requirements for their TW subject.

our group's name itself united us together. We were so fond of it that we created a Fan Page for it in Facebook who's fans can be counted with you fingers and toes. Hahaha LoL! Well, the main purpose of the Fan Page is to have a place where we can upload as many pictures of us, while doing the thesis. :D
click this and become one of our fans! LoL

Every time there is a paper to be passed for this Thesis Proposal, we do it the fast way- CRAMMING: Do Everything the Night Before.
The cycle is that we go to Laurie's Dorm, call their dorm guard and let him buy our dinner, facebook for about an hour and then when one gets sleepy at pasimpleng hihiga sa likuran namin, that's only the time when all of us be stimulated to be serious and do the researching, typing and editing, that will be around 9pm,plus there's he facebooking/admiring/youtube video viewing in the middle of the researching and reading part so most of the time, we end up at around 11pm-midnight. Sometimes, we do things alot faster than normal because we have exams in a lot of subjects pa the next day so we lessen the Facebooking period.

The First task was to submit a title together with objectives and problems and then back it up with abstracts or journal articles.
Our first five topics were all rejected. :D the funny thing about it, and also the reason why we accepted it was going to be rejected was that 4 out of 5 were about either about ALCOHOL or NICOTINE. Only one is the really thesis-type topic which was i guess accepted but we only needed to change one of our plant source. my favorite topic there was about Acetylcystein's effect on drug-induced hang-overs. hahaha LoL.
So we researched a little bit more and ended up with real Thesis-type topics and in that batch of topics where some were approved and others were rejected, we chose what we wanted to focus our study about.

The Second Task was to do a Matrix for the Review of Related Literature.
we researched in the Library's Online Databases (SCIENCE DIRECT and PRO-QUEST) everything we needed for the paper and then sent the links to our email addresses. The not-so-good part was that we never knew that night that those links can not be opened outside the University grounds, that we still need to connect to the University's Internet server to be able to acquire the full article. It was already around 9:30pm when we realized this super mega huge problem, so we decided that we will come early to school na lang in the morning to get those articles from the library na lang. The next morning, another not-so-good part happened again, Pam arrived at around 8:30 na (we have QC1 class at 9am) and she forgot the titles of the articles we needed to download pa. :D LoL! all we did was to laugh it off, some were disappointed but all in all, it was okay. we still have time, 8 hours at most because the papers should be passed at 5pm, after Pharmacology make-up class. So we downloaded the articles using the library's computers and then printed it out (during lunch break). We ate late lunch na lang during PharCare i guess (2:00-3:00pm) . The MIRACULOUS part was that we finished the MAtrix thing before 5pm!! How? well, during those minuets when Sir Ivan Tanodra was discussing his stuff about pharmacology, we did the matrix! hahaha.. Pam, Claire, LAurie and I divided the works, one person per article. By the time Sir Gavino Ivan was done with his discussion, we were at the back shutting Laurie's Mac Book na.. hahahahaha!

The Third Task was to do the entire Chapter 1.
I already forgot how we were able to come up with a Chapter 1 that Tuesday morning, basta all i remembered was that I di my part (Backgroud of the Study/Introduction) in a computer shop full of cute guys shouting bad words at each other while playing DOTA. and then Claire compiled it and printed it at around 6:30 am that same Tuesday morning when we were to submit it. :D

The Fourth Task was to do Chapter2.
Again, we divided the parts of chapter 2 among ourselves. We did "something similar" with editing at Laurie's place, (they lang pala. natulog lang kasi ako sa likuran nila habang ginagawa yung kung ano man yun. LoL) Ginawa ko lang yung part ko pag kauwi dito sa dorm. I could still vividly remember that Monday night, just last Monday night when all i was granted was around 2 and a half hours of sleep because i still waited for Francis' part to be emailed and then i still edited the entire thing with Pam's snore as my background music. And we still have quizzes for all of our subjects that day: Tuesday. i slept at around 4am that Tuesday morning. I had real fun that night! :)

And the LAst task was to Defend our Thesis Proposal
Again, we did the entire preparation only the night before, it was a Wednesday night at Laurie's dormroom. They did the power point preparation while I prepared myself for my Laboratory examination: CBC night at UST Hospital.
The slides were't finished yet by 7am and our defense will be AT 9:30 AM and i still dont have a formal clothing to wear and pam just left their home at Pasig! hahahhaa..
Cramming..
one hour before defense, our slides are still lacking its components and we were all really pressured. LoL
30minuets before our defense, we still dont have a hard copy of our Thesis Papers for the Panelists and Pam is still not around.
Francis did a Miracle and printed, the fastest he could, those Papers for the Panelists and then Pam arrived and 5 minuets before our turn to defend what we have done, we put on some sort of formal clothing. actually, mukha nga kaming mag paparty sa bar. LoL. hahaha

During the Defense, it wasnt perfect yet it wasnt a disaster.
Our Thesis is FEASIBLE! it is "DOABLE" sir Jay Jazul said.

some of our classmates told us that we had the second to the highest grade that morning, while others said we had the Highest score. I dont know. I/We dont care.
ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS THAT OUR THESIS PROPOSAL IS DONE AND IT IS FEASIBLE FOR Fouth Year!
hahaha

What A MIRACLE!

I wrote this something to remind me/us that one day, we did something incredible WITHOUT ASKING ANYBODY'S help.
We did a Thesis Paper with the most we can do. And defended it in the best way be can.
(kahit na nang loloko lang talaga si Francis nang sinabi nyang magbibigay kami ng something sa mga manufacturing laboratory para malaman ang importance ng SoyBean Oil as Table Lubricant. hahaha
at Nanloloko lang din siya nung sinabi niyang meron kaming basis/standard na plant material na pag cocompare-an ng gagawin naming SoyBean Oil Extract as Tablet LUbricant. hahaha LOL! :D)

Sometimes, we just have to believe in ourselves that we can do something over what we think we are only capable of because maybe, just maybe, this gamble will help us know even more of ourselves and learn that we still could stretch ourselves from what we are, what we have and what we are capable of doing today for the better and for the future.
Thesis Writing is not just about having a witty cranium, I / We learned based on what we have experienced that Thesis Writing as also about Team Work, great Imagination and alot of Inspiration (from facebook espacially. hahahab LoL!)

Now that Thesis is done, only the Alcohol, good memories and tighter friendship bond will hold us together.

The use of Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Specifically Soybean Oil as Tablet Lubricant

(i revise daw namin, dapat daw
"The Use of Soybean Oil as Tablet Lubricant"
na lang)

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Cac, Christine Claire
Carreon. Laurie Moreen
Mallari, Pamela Ann Mae
Maningat, Maria Eda
Ty, Francis Adrian

thanks, i really enjoyed that One Semester of working with your guys.
buti na lang masyadong tight ang friendship natin kaya hindi tayo nag fall apart.

I ♥ You!
:)
XOXO
-eda