Why did I choose Food Technology: I chose the particular course because I love food and I am fascinated on how things happen. I want this course to be my background course as I study and learn how to cook good food. The brother of my grandfather suggested me this course and since then I decided to take the course.

About my college education: Food technology as a course really taught me a lot. One lesson that to sum up my learning for food technology is that behind every food that we consume there is a process that involves a lot of time and effort to ensure that the food is safe to eat, palatable, pleasing in the eye, will fill everyone's stomach and will certainly meet the consumers expectation about the product.

Subject wise, the difficult subjects are Food chemistry and Food engineering. These two subjects are hardcore in terms of extracting students thinking and analyzing capabilities. I myself had a hard time passing these subjects. These two subjects involves principles from the disciplines of math, physics, biology and chemistry. The subjects combines all these principles to see it's application and it's theoretical answers

I cannot emphasize the things I learn but I can enumerate two traits I learned that are really useful. First is that I learned to analyze and deduce. Its a hard trait for me to learn. Analyzing for me is the ability to think of solving something that is not bound by the lessons taught but also thinking of different ways of solving out of the box. Analyzing involves determination inf order to see both the large and small picture and details of the problem. In deducing, I can define this as the ability of coming up with your own style of solving. This is hard and varies in every person but is really a helpful skill when learned. Deducing makes everything easy because you can see a pattern or even your own method that is efficient and effective. These two skills are very helpful and useful even at work.

Passing exams is, yes, difficult. It requires a lot of nights of studying, practicing and analyzing problems. Most of the students also fail but these failures are the source of the students motivation since they want to pass and conquer the subject. Many people strive hard just to finish the course, and only a select few shift when they face these hardships.

In terms of traits and attitudes, I can only quote this phrase "heart strong" from the Ateneo women's volleyball team. Why you may ask, simply because to pass the course, your heart should be aligned that you are taking the course because you love it, and even if you fail at times, you keep standing up again and again because your goal is ti finish the course you desire the most.

My current job: My job is a Quality Assurance Officer, QAO, at a food company.
Our job is to ensure that we provide safe, palatable and good food without people thinking of the hazards that they may encounter like sickness or food poisoning. As QAO's we monitor the the product sent out to the consumers is consistent in terms of taste, portion, packaging and overall palatability. QAO's job is also to develop new recipes or methods to be used in order to make sure that the quality of products are top notch and safe.

How long did it take to find a job: It took me 1 month to find a job.
Just a piece of advice, be choosy about the job because for us to excel, we want to choose a job that we think would fit our personality and ambition as we work for the company. We should see ourselves that we can give all in that company as they give their trust in ours.

Advice to people who are thinking of studying this course: Simple advice that I can give to students taking the course is enjoy the course. Yes, you may experience hardships and everything but it is part of the learnings that only us food technologists knows. Strive for excellence, even if you are from other schools, do your best because as you graduate, it's not all about what you learn and what you read, it's all about how you apply the things you've learned.