reaction on our magazine

U.S.Time
Our Time. Our Generation.


I am very proud of the over-all output of the class. Who would’ve that for just a short period of time we were able to come up with something that like U.S.Time? Even though I can say that the turnout of this project is good, there are still some sad things about it. It’s poignant because not all students of our class were able to contribute something for this project. And one of those students is me. I know honestly that I have not done such a big part for the welfare of our class. I am fully aware that I am one of those who did not help much when the heads are having trouble regarding some issues on our magazine. It’s not that I am being defensive or anything but I just want to say how I fell about this.

For me, one problem that we have encountered is the lack of the dissemination of information regarding meetings about the magazine. Most of the time, it’s just the department heads and their close friends who are meeting up when they’re cooking something up. Those who want to help would learn about that meeting only after the meeting has taken place. When we ask questions, there is no definite answer that we get. An example for this is when they had the photo shoot. There are a lot of people who would want to help for that but there is only a number of people who received a text message regarding the information for the said shoot. Another thing is that we would really want to help for the solicitation of sponsors. The problem is that they assume that we do not want to solicit at all. The truth is, we really cannot find sponsors for our magazine.

If there is a negative side, of course there is a positive side. Although we encountered a lot of problems, we were still able to produce a magazine. I can see that when it comes to selling the magazine, my block mates really did their part to be able to vend our project. I am proud to see each and everyone doing their best to sell it to anyone we can see. It’s funny but we give out everything just to be able to sell even just one cop of it. I will not forget our experience selling it because we really advertise the mag and we persuade fellow Thomasians to buy it. I do not feel embarrassed for what I am doing since it is for the welfare of my class. This is only the start yet we already learned a lot. Although we cannot escape arguments and hard feelings, I know that at the end of the day, all of us have learned something and will surely apply that on our other upcoming class projects.