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I’m currently underground to do my thesis. I’ll resurrect my blogging self soon. :)
Observant people tell me that I blog more often than before. Well, I think it’s even an understatement. I rarely blog every day, or even every week–I think I blog only twice or thrice a month. And this is a justifiable excuse because of the different justifiable forces that prevent me to do so. If something justifiable inhibited you to do something, then the direct causes of inhibition would also be as justifiable. This is the kind of logic I sustain in my values stream that kept me breathing. But I guess this won’t work in the crazily fast-paced lifestyle of the 21st century.
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is create an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
This table has three assumptions:
Only a flat 1.00 GWA could yield a 100% GPA.
1.75 GWA (The lowest possible cum laude standing grade) yields an 85% GPA.
3.00 GWA (The lowest possible grade to graduate) yields 60% GPA.
Possible FAQs:
Why do you use whole numbers for GPA% in your conversion table?
Base on experience, most job search engines and corporate application forms ask for whole number GPAs
Why do you assume that 60% yields 3.00? Some subjects have lower standards i.e. 3.00 yields 50%.
True, there are some subjects that the passing grade is 50%=3.00. But the reference point of this conversion table is this: 1.75 GWA yields 85%. The rationale behind this is most companies regard 85% as the lowest possible GWA with honors i.e. 85%=1.75.
Why are you doing this?
During my pre-internship period, several of my classmates ask me to convert their currrent GWA to GPA percentage. Now that we are graduating next year, the same friends could ask me again about it so I am making a convenient tool for everyone in general. :)
DISCLAIMER:
You cannot blame this table (and me at that) if your prospective employer says that your GPA isn’t reflective of your GWA because you used this. However, I assure everyone that this is based on basic mathematical logic.
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is creating an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
Last Saturday, we presented a case documentation that exhibits the use of new social media by different Philippine-based organizations to promote their products and services or to perform their functions in general. One of the organizations we interviewed has been using Facebook to screen and hire prospective employees. Now that’s a wake-up call for me to do a Facebook general cleaning. Haha. But I do have rather civil and cultured content on my social networking accounts so the article doesn’t pose so much threat to me. :D Anyway, I was browsing Yahoo! News when I stumbled upon this article:
Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook
http://vinculum.alpsaguado.com/2009/08/social-media-marketing/
Sagot sa kahirapan: Digmaang Bayan.
When we went to UP Diliman for the Philippine Intercollegiate Debate Championship, my teammates and I saw this activist vandalism written on the chalkboard of one of the classrooms in Palma Hall. :o
I spent a few hours staying at my best friend’s crib last week. I also met his dog for the second time (the first one was when his girlfriend bought this dog somewhere near my place). There is something peculiar about this dog. Guess what?
Got it?
He sits like a chicken! Well, actually, he lies down like a (roasted) chicken Haha!
I was reading some of my Friendster private messages when I encountered a spam message containing a link to a scam-porn site. Nah, I’m not inventing this reason to justify my accidental landing to that porn-ish site. I don’t browse porn. Err, I used to. No, I haven’t seen any porn all my life. HAHA. Anyway, there was this intriguing advertisement I have seen on the said site:
Now tell me I’m wrong on saying that this is a spam site. :/
ksali aqowh z gangsters, jejeje! jowk lng powh, bka mnwla keo!!!!!!
aq un tao nah mabaet zah taong mabet dn zken!!
sveh ni aque adik daw aqowh!!
mnzan emotera nah dn!!
an dmi kazeng problema!!
nd aq kuripot..as long as my ena aq!!
nd aq suplada!!
shy type aq!!
kpg my kgalet,,.
okei ln khit one year na nd mgpanznan
nahi2yah kazeh aqoh!!
kn mron pah kaung guztong mlaman ,,
pntah kau zmen!!….mmmmm….
aq un tao nah mabaet zah taong mabet dn zken!!
sveh ni aque adik daw aqowh!!
mnzan emotera nah dn!!
an dmi kazeng problema!!
nd aq kuripot..as long as my ena aq!!
nd aq suplada!!
shy type aq!!
kpg my kgalet,,.
okei ln khit one year na nd mgpanznan
nahi2yah kazeh aqoh!!
kn mron pah kaung guztong mlaman ,,
pntah kau zmen!!..why!!
,.unbelievable vah un..
,.pd nman un ahh!!
,.hehe!!,.joke lmang!!
,.naiz lmang ktang mgin frend!!
I get anonymous comments from anonymous people in Friendster. Several of them use a kind of language that is very popular (I guess) among some youth. I respect people who use this kind of language but it makes me tired reading such. :/
My friends and I went to National Bookstore a few days ago to purchase some notepads which we will use as corporate giveaways. These will be given away for a min-seminar this week. After some searching and comparing, we found the best pad with the best price:
With the most random writings inside:
Microsoft Word 2007 has this nifty feature of asking what kind of English a user’s country is using before the installation proper. And I am suprised that there is an English: Republic of the Philippines option. Wow, Microsoft recognized our own branding of English. For a moment, I hoped and prayed to God that this isn’t Carabao English Microsoft is referring to. But I’m just a paranoid. *Continue-Install-Button clicked*
And this is what I have noticed:
As far as I know, we adopted American English as our English. Well, our English accepts both versions but I don’t know why the Microsoft nerds assumed we are using British English. Hmm.
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