Thesis Defended: Let's celebrate!

December 7, 2021

Good day people! It's Tuesday, CHOOSEDAY. I choose to be happy and positive today. Let's also choose to be kind and appreciative. Can we do that? Of course, we can it's easy, isn't it? I wonder why there are people who choose to be greedy and selfish, did they get something doing those? Hays.

Okay, moving on that's not my article all about. I just wanted to share with you that finally, our thesis is done from chapters 1 to 5 to defending it to the panelist.

On day one, last semester of my third year we think of a title for our research study. We're having a hard time getting the approval of our thesis adviser at that time, we already made many titles but none of them were accepted. So the last day of giving a title, I think about one that is connected to our course which is financial management. And fortunately, our thesis adviser already approved it so we can now start doing chapter 1 which is the introduction and background of the study. I am the leader in our group so the pressure is on. I divided the task equally and also I ask them for any suggestions, even though I am the leader I don't decide alone I still ask my group mates about their opinions. I think that's good in having a harmonious group. In our second semester in my third year, we started doing chapters 1-3 (introduction and background of the study, review of related literature(RRL), and the methodology). And we have a defense on that chapters. We're happy that time that we defended it although our panelist suggested some revisions on it. And then vacation comes, we polish our thesis and do what the panelist recommends to us. Chapter 4-5 will continue on our fourth year in the first semester.

Unlike other groups, we didn't change our whole study just the title of it changed from "Logistics Management System in business growth of selected fast-food chain to " Logistics Management Practices in Business Growth Of Selected Supermarket in Metro Manila" so they are still connected and we just have a little revision on our study.

Now that we are in the fourth year of college we continue our research study chapters 4-5 where we will going to have a survey questionnaire. After creating a questionnaire, we do a triangulation, we ask our professor if she can be our validator to our questionnaire. Gladly, she accepted it and validates our questions.

Doing a research study together with your group mates virtually isn't an easy thing. We used to have groupings face to face but since we are facing a pandemic and the class becomes an online class we need to deal with social media platforms in communicating with our group mates. Also, there's one problem that we encounter, looking for respondents. Our target is 50 persons who are working in a supermarket. We want to do a walk-in but they are strict and didn't allow us to have a survey inside their premises and so we just create a Google form and disseminate the questionnaire thru the use of social media.

This is what we did. We created an announcement that says that we need respondents and we put the criteria whoever meets that criteria can answer our questionnaire. It's hard getting respondents virtually, fortunately, my partner's cousin is working in Sm supermarket I ask a favor if he could answer our survey questionnaire and if he could share the link with his colleague. We meet our target respondents.

We also need to have a statistician and my groupmate known one, his professor before. We pay P2,500 ($49.67). It's worth it since he did all the computations and interpretations. We need also a grammarian to check our grammar. I found one and good thing she let us have her as our grammarian. We pay P500 ($10).

And yesterday is the day, our section was scheduled on day 1 (December 6, 2021) at 2:00 pm. My groupmates and I were very nervous, I told them to answer right away if they know the answer so that we don't have a dead air which the panelist doesn't want. I cheer them up and say that we can do this.

This was my group mate's screenshot while I am answering a question. Hehe sorry for my bare face XD. I'm nervous at that time. But I don't let my nervousness hinders me in doing my best. This is our last shot so we need to do our very best.

These are my lovely group. We name our group GRADWAITING since we will be graduating next year we just need to wait hehe. I'm blessed to have them as my group mates because they didn't let me do it alone and they did help me a lot, they also understand my situation so they didn't give me a headache hehe. We all did our assigned tasks.

Yet! Finally, our thesis defense was done. Thank God for giving us wisdom and strength yesterday during our defense. Though we need to have a minimal revision on our thesis which we put the suggestions of our panels. Then the next that we need to do is to book bind it. So another expense again.

Look at them, they are behaving while I'm doing defense. I thought my baby will cry during my defense but he seems to understand what I told him, my baby is a good boy. He sleeps when my defense is starting. I already shared it in my noise.cash account. They serve as my motivation yesterday, seeing them takes away my fear and nervousness. My partner also cheers me up before the defense, he saw how frustrated and nervous I am.

Closing thoughts

I think we deserve a rest hehe. Doing our research study wasn't easy, it consume our time, energy, and money. I'm thankful it is already done and we survived the defense, some of the group in our section will repeat chapters 4-5 said by the panelist and that is another pain in the as* since they need to pay again for the statistician and grammarian. What we need to prepare right now is our payment when we book bind our thesis and it needs to have three copies so imagine how much money we need to spend. But, that's okay as long as we need it to graduate next year.

Next semester, what we need to be ready for the internship. I'm quite excited and nervous hehe. Konti nalang road to graduation na this!

Thank you people for your support :)

-Loveleng18