“Ignite”

           It was the beginning of the second semester and everyone’s got a whole new chance of making this particular time in their college lives more interesting, fun and exciting.

I have no particular plans yet at that time. I was just tagging along with everyone else during the first week of the new semester. It was until I joined the organizing team for this semester’s “Ideas That Matter”. I’m not really used to meeting a lot of new faces all at once.  it was a mixture of excitement and unease for me whenever I thought of working with people from another section – and another college.

Weeks passed and we were finally able to have our very first organizing team meeting. Obviously, there was still an awkward air amongst us back then. Just look how far apart we were seated from each other before:

More and more meetings were held for the planning and preparation for the event. Each of us slowly warmed to one another. There were also a number of photoshoots of the organizing team which helped on building our team’s work relationship. 

Our team was created to fuse each and everyone’s strengths and ideas, and from there on we were set to ignite the spark of determination and dedicate ourselves into doing our best for this semester’s Ideas That Matter.

We may have had several set-backs concerning our event, but we were able to push through and support one another in the process, making the most out of what we’ve got.

It was a great and memorable learning experience, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone from the Ignite team and our adviser, Prof. Gil Velez, for making it all happen.

Keep the sparks burning.

-Jeri Ann Gabon