Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Service Management...that's my B.A.

In all honesty, I chose my course the moment I received the University of Makati form that you have to fill up in the college registration. I mean, literally. I only just decided what I will take up in college at the exact moment when I was being asked what I wanted to take up. I was staring at the courses listed already and that's the moment when I decided.

Great start in college, you betcha! (Great procrastination skills too)

But all kidding aside, the moment I received that form, my eyes zeroed in on one course, Organizational Communication. I've always wanted a course in Communication or English because:

1. I hate Math. I thought that if I chose an English course I could dodge the fatal bullet that is Mathematics. (I honestly suck at Math in high school, but oddly enough, I passed my Maths. Yay for me!) 
2. I love English. I love speaking it, I love writing using the language. I just love it. (And the course delivered).
3. I hate Math...oh wait, I already said that, but anyway, it's my main reason so it deserves to be ticked twice.

Anyway, Organizational Communication was a ladderized course, meaning that  after two years, we would all graduate(which we did), and we have a choice on whether to continue our course and turn our Associates' degree into a Bachelor's degree. (which I did). 

The course, which started out as BA in Organizational Communication, changed into BA in Communication and Service Management. Basically, it's all about learning how to communicate (shocker since its a communication course), in a workplace, your office for example. It's basically knowing how to deal with both internal and external customers. FYI, external customers are your typical definition of a customer, someone who purchases either a service or a good from you, while an internal customer is someone from within the company (hence the name internal, obviously), and you need to cater to their needs. This typically applies to the HR personnel catering the needs of the other employees in the company. 

BACSM (Acronym for the course), is a new course to most people's ears. People know Mass Communication, Journalism, Office Management, Business Administration, Marketing, and all that, but no really knows what BACSM is. Well, its basically all of those courses put together. We learn how to speak and use English properly, we talk about public relations, we study the ins and outs of companies and organizations, we talk about human behavior and how it affects people, we study technology, basically everything, little bits and pieces of things, but everything that's important to our course of course. 

In BACSM, I already said that we learn a lot from different fields of study and it just makes it easier for us to adapt to a lot of jobs. We could go to Customer Service, we could do back office jobs like encoding, we could be part of the Human Resource team, we could do Public Relations, we could teach if we wanted to, we could even be part of Management. There are a lot of perks of taking up this course and I've really enjoyed it. 

Like all other courses in college, it is hard work, but really, its COLLEGE, if you think that its easy, than you've got another thing coming. There are still the presentations, the quizzes, the exams, the deadlines, the homework, the recitation, the writing, the practicals...but it is worth while. Everything that we did and will do is for the course, in preparation for the future. (A bit deep). 

But...there is a but...

As wise Confucius said, 

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

It's the same principle for BACSM. I love it, so it often never feels like work. When it gets hard, I often just think of it as a hurdle, something I have to get through to get farther. It's a fun course because I decided that I wanted it to be fun for me, not just because its fun in theory.

BACSM for me was a choice, even if it was a spur-of-the-moment-think-fast choice, it was still MY choice, and it's a choice that I will never regret taking.