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The Y4IT Congress Experience

September 22, 2007

 For the first time in the history of the Computer Science and Information Technology department of our dear alma mater, the school authorities finally permitted the Senior Students to attend the Youth For IT(Y4IT) Congress last September 13-14, 2007 at SM North Edsa. It is my first time ever to attend such prestige gathering of future IT professionals and Pride of the country.

Wait, let me narrate what happened during our stay in Metro Manila with the gang.

We left Dagupan at 1:30AM. Everyone's excited because aside from learning a lot about the latest trends in our field, this is also our chance to bond with everyone.

 We had a short stopover at the Total Station (where we had some photos taken kahit puro kami ngarag!) and ate our breakfast at the KFC. The whole IT team (Nine Senior IT Students.. dami noh?) ate lugaw and the effect of this almusal made us.. err.. hyper in the van and sleepy in the seminar place? :)

We arrived in SM North Edsa at 7:30PM just like the other delegates from other provincial IT schools. We were able to register and entered cinema 10 in a few minutes.

When we had our butts in the comfy cinema chairs, I assume that 80% of the attendees (volunteers in black excluded, of course) were sleeping! Camera bandits are busy taking pictures of unconscious victims (the author included LOL).

The show.. i mean the seminar started at around 9:30. Stand-up comedians served as the hosts of the event. If not for them, the cinema will turn into a hotel full of sleepyheads. Our favorite is Paolo, who is oh-so-cute in the eye of one of my classmates. They sang, cracked jokes and had some batian portions. Ate Jizela and I actually sent our own pabati and it goes like this:

Hello sa lahat ng mga Computer Science and IT students ng * * * pati na rin sa mga cute naming instructors na sina _______ . More Power and God Bless! - Love, Inday and Ederlyn

Much to my dismay, no one laughed huhu :(

Let's go back to the seminar proper :) Can I just sum it all up? My three favorite topics include Biometrics (it is somewhat related to my project proposal), Robotics and Animation. Geez, if i only have enough time i'd study more about these topics!

It's my first time in 10 years to enter SM North Edsa. Laki na pala ng pinagbago!

 Aside from the topics to be tackled in the said seminar, another reason why i am pretty excited to go there is because of the bloggers i'm meeting up with :D There's Geexie , who actually sent the letter of invitation to our school (thank you so much sissy!) and Coy The Vlogger, who took time to chat with me about the latest issues in the blogosphere and he also bonded with some of my classmates! They actually want to see him here hopefully on our upcoming blogging seminar :) I wanted to meet up with Cai and Louis but I never saw them there :D

After the LOONGGG day, our troupe travelled all the way from North Edsa to Pasig just to stay and rest at kabayan hotel. Did we actually sleep? Hmmm.. I won't elaborate further haha :)

I am happy because we were able to go to a seminar outside Pangasinan on my last semester as a student. The fun, efforts and the learning thingy is priceless :)

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