JPIIE Inter-school Officers’ Congress

Honestly, my group isn’t done with the marketing aspect of our feasibility study yet. We continued it Friday night, and though we weren’t finished, we slept at around 4am. Hahaha. Torture. Before that, I was having second thoughts about joining the JPIIE activity because I was too preoccupied with our feasibility study. But since I didn’t want to spoil the purpose of the activity, I joined anyway, and with me were Shalee and John, the former being my FS group mate and the latter having long notes to study for an exam on the following Monday (that’s today).

The JPIIE Inter-school Forum, Team Building, and Term-long Planning (or simply, the title of this post) happened last January 23-24, 2010 at the Don Bosco Retreat House in Lawaan, Talisay City. It’s already my second time there. The first time was during our retreat in 4th year high school, and the memories are still vivid in my mind. Anyway, we were kind of behind the schedule already. We started our team building activity after dinner (8:00-11:30pm). Not to exaggerate, but I think it was, by far, the most stimulating team building activity I’ve experienced in terms of real team building and lessons learned! Here are some of the things I’ve learned:

• Just do it. Don’t be too preoccupied about what’s gonna happen. If you know what to do and how to do it, everything will turn out right in the end.
• The “para nako” (for me; para sa akin) syntax. Every time you voice out a thought, acknowledge that it’s just your own opinion. Don’t generalize or think that others have the same thought as you. This way, you won’t offend anyone.
• Know who you are. Know what you want to be. Don’t pretend to be somebody else. It’s easier to attain your goals if you are sure where you’re heading to.
• The difference between deciding and doing. It’s big. The former doesn’t do anything, the latter does everything. In addition, plan your work and work your plan.

Those are the easiest things to recall. Nevertheless, all the denotations and connotations were really effective. Slumber time followed.

Lourd, Shalee, Ronald, and John.

We wanted to attend mass at 6:30am the next day, but only few of us were able to wake up earlier and prepare. I wasn’t able to go. Anyway, during most of our breaks, I was with Shalee (USC), John (USC), Ronald (UCLM), and Lourd (UCLM). After breakfast, we went out for a morning walk to the church (that’s already after the mass). Unfortunately, when we arrived at the church, we had to run back ‘coz it was already raining. The path was steep, and the retreat house was far from the church! Who wouldn’t end up panting? Hahaha. We had to dry up before the next activities would start. We had the discussion of JPIIE’s nature and history (c/o the former president, Rankine Novabos) in the morning and term-long planning or project proposals in the afternoon.

After our final snacks, we had cam whoring sessions (never gone), and we left the place with a happy heart.

I’m still overwhelmed by the weight of everything I’ve grasped from the event. I just hope that young as JPIIE may be, we will be able to attain our term goal of establishing our identity and growing as effective and efficient leaders, not of different schools, but of a big family of Industrial Engineering students. Move forward, JPIIE!

Officers from USC, USJ-R, CIT, UCLM, UV, CTU, and DBTC.

PS JPIIE stands for Junior Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineers. And our complete name has a -VC extension for Visayas Chapter. And oh, click here for the pics.

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Mikyu. 22 y/o. From Consolacion, Cebu. Graduated BSIE from USC-TC. Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. member. Gawad Kalinga volunteer/builder. A dreamer, imagineer, part realist, part idealist. :]
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