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Waking up before the sun rises, getting up an hour or two early for the first class , sitting for more than 10 hours inside a small spaced classroom of 37 students, going home later than six, reviewing countless lessons, coffee, sleep, repeat.

This is just an overview of a day in a SHS STEM student of CSM. Inside the institution of Western Mindanao State University, students under the STEM CSM are known to be one of the smartest and hard working when it comes to studying. In this case, many wonder what it takes to be a student under this College. Here is the list of the qualities and how students of CSM STEM cope up with the challenges of education.

- PROCRASTINATION IS NOT A THING -

When faced to a hill of requirements and performance tasks, CSM STEM students do the job as early as possible in order to get the best of their work. They never say "bukas na to" or "maya na yan" for they believe time is gold.

-TIME MANAGEMENT IS A MUST-

To survive the Senior High life, one must know to manage time. CSM STEM students are great at managing time and can multitask even without being super drained of their schedule.

-COOPERATION AND UNITY-

Of course, any family will not survive without these two qualities. Just like CSM STUDENTS, they share common understanding and appreciate everyone's participation for whatever purpose the classroom wants to achieve. Everyone is respected regardless of what makes them different.

-PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE-

Undeniably, the subjects of CSM STEM are not to be underestimated. Most of the subjects need higher and advance thinking skills and a trait the CSM STEM has is its patience in understanding each hard lesson.

-SCIENTIFIC CALCULATOR IS LYF-

Clearly every student needs a scientific calculator to survive. In CSM STEM, it is the fundamental tool to be able to understand lessons that include solving equations that probably kill students every [physics] time ;)

-CLASS GOALS-

Surely, every section has its own personality that differs all the Senior High classes of WMSU. But ONE thing is for sure: the family of CSM STEM envision themselves to graduate together with flying colors.

BY knowing these things, you surely think students of CSM STEM as highly and industrious. On the downside, there are no perfect classrooms, just like nobody's perfect. Here are some of the drawbacks of maintaining a passing grade under CSM STEM in a student's life:

-LESS QUALITY TIME-

Less quality time with family, friends, with self, you name it. The thing is, if someone is more focused on a thing regardless of its importance, that someone will automatically and unconsciously disregard some of his habits and routine, just like in the situation of a CSM STEM student.

-PRREESSSSUUURRREEE-

Alright, every student experiences this, but are CSM STEM students excempted? Totally not.

-COFFEE IS THE NEW WATER-

..especially during exams and hell week where everything is getting hotter and hotter. CSM STEM students are likely to pour all the coffee inside their lungs just to keep themselves awake while reviewing their lessons. The results? I can't really judge

-WHAT IS SLEEP?-

CSM STEM Students will prove you that they are also normal and they experience lack of sleep because of the busy schedule they have. Just try looking at their puffed and bagged eyes, you might believe what I am saying.

IN general, CSM STEM students are just like every student in WMSU: They are competitive, intelligent, serious, but with a golden heart. It is important to dig down on the life of CSM STEM students for us to be able to comprehend how they go on being what they are in a class of people of different walks in life.

As the sun starts to dive in the horizon, i heard the campus begins to howl music, and i found myself thrust into a weird blend of excitement and awkward confusion. This wasn't just any Halloween bash—it was the eve of a wild extravaganza, the night of the school officer oath-taking, and the moment my sweater decided to take on a gang of goofy, haunted dresses of people. Talk about a night to remember!

As i stepped into the school ground, the gravity under my eyes sunk short. I see people coming in with their trick-or-treat costumes, all mostly in black get -ups.

My sweater? Totally not keeping up with the cool crowd. It was like a peek-a-boo moment on my part.

When the dawn kicks off with this whole induction thing. I'm checking out the new leaders' faces, and even though I don't know any of them, there's this cool vibe of camaraderie mixing in with the Halloween fun.

So, in the middle of the crowd, someone spills the beans – there's this freaky house all set to give the Crimsons a good scare. Everyone can go in by five, and folks can't help but wonder what cool, spooky stuff awaits inside. Like, how wild did they go transforming our school space, you know? I couldn't even help but marvel a thought.

And then just after our first scream with the four of my classmates echoed, I've realized that the once mundane corridors now adorned with cobwebs, solemn pumpkin candles, spooky decoration and our journey to the leading room was a spur-of-the-moment jumpscares and shouting all over, adding a thrilling chill to the atmosphere, seeping into the fabric of my sweater.

Here's a clip that captures our craziness 📸::

Upon reaching the end of what it seems a long dim tunnel—with all the adrenaline, panting and sweat, I just took a sec to think about how this Halloween vibe totally flips the script on our small, kinda 'not on it's good shape' campus.

Sure, the place isn't a towering building with vintage libraries, like any other colleges, but guess what? We manage to pull off an awesome Halloween bash with what we've got.

It's like our school's signature style – making the most of what's around, no need for fancy stuff. Halloween here isn't about a huge setup; it's about all of us getting into the spooky spirit together and whatever shivers our spine that came with it.

Later in the night, there were dances, singing performances, and storytelling each exerting effort, submitting to the ambience. Horror movie trailers were brilliant, from the cast to the cinematography, it feels really great that everyone on the intermission is down to put everybody on the edge of their seats.

On this very magical celebration, we let ourselves drunk in the beat of the music, under colorful lights, Laughs were shared like inside jokes, and cheers still echo in my ears. My sweater even had a showdown with some fancy cloaks, Halloween OOTD, and chill dresses on the red carpet – a night to remember, for sure!

In the end, when the clock struck late, and everybody's going home, there we were – me in my cozy sweater and sleeping pants.

Everyone still rocking their makeup.

Stepping out into the quiet night, I couldn't help but feel this cool vibe for the school, the awesome event team, and every pic that caught the essence of my first WMSU Halloween bash.

Well why not right?

Our world revolves around technologies now even if you like it or not or if you agree or not.

It is very clear that this is true simply because people tend to use technologies in their everyday lives some examples are mobile phones, personal computers, laptops and televisions. Because of the advancement of technologies now it can be good to our society also it can be bad. Good in the sense that people can use social medias now to contact and connect with their loved ones that are not with them and students can do their assignments, projects, requirements and etc. with easier access to internet and office workers can do their proposals a lot faster and easier. It can be bad in the sense that because of having too advance technologies bad people tend to use this in their advantage to do crimes like cybercimes, phishing, libel or slander, steal identities, hack accounts and a lot more.

Department of Education (DepEd) included Media and Information Literacy for the betterment of our future and to give proper knowledge to the youths and students. Literacy can be described or it can be connected to the words read and write. By learning Media and Information Literacy we can have the ability or the knowledge to identify the different types of medias not only that but to also understand them deeper and thoroughly. We can also create our own. By learning or by having the knowledge about Media and Information Literacy our critical thinking skills will be improved not only that but also we can be a smart consumers of products and information, recognize point of views, create media responsibly and a lot more advantages.