First Day at APC

BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN?

It’s the first day of class and I liked it. On my observation, the class is a younger than I expected, before I entered the class I really thought that most of my classmates were a lot older than me. Though, when we had a get-to-know each other part, I felt a little pressured because most of my classmates were really graduates of Information Technology and all are working on the IT industry. But, I already know that the course will require me a lot of effort to grasp all the terminologies that we will be discussing.

An assignment was given to us, which is like a test of our belief. The funny part is that, some of the terms are new to me that is why I need to google it first before knowing what it really is. Sometimes I already know the word but I still googled the term to check if it is really correct. But after discussing the assignment, I learned that some ideas cannot be “googled” because sometimes terminologies are different to the reality, which is why some of our answers are wrong.

There was this question that really gave me that “AHH!” and that was the question “Should CIO report to CFO” and I analyze it literally and thought the word report was only about telling or discussing but latter knew it was about being under or being a subordinate. With that I knew that there are a lot I really need to work on, since I am a marketing graduate and not working in an IT field and that is a really big challenge for me and experiences really differs when you analyze situations.

The positive outcome is that I am learning a lot from my professor and classmates; like the nature of their work, the stuff that they do and their experiences which I really think is fun and is something new. It helps me build friends and at the same time gain learning through their experiences. The subject organizational management is not actually more on the bookish side but you will actually learn on the experiences shared by everyone, which I think is more realistic and effective than what is written in the book.