A Message from the CASA President

Before this one, I've written a lot of welcome message drafts that aim to inspire the whole batch. I really wanted to come up with a message or an article that will create an impression about the Communication Arts students. Of course, one of the pressures of being the President is the huge expectations that are imposed upon me -- expectations that even I impose to myself. But as I wrote those previous drafts I've written, there's always a point where I'll get lost and won't have a clue of the next word to write. I realized that however clichéd, the main motivation of writing is really to express and not to impress.

The night before I wrote this, I attended a class where the professor, a very good and notable one, asked us why are we in Communication Arts. Can you imagine us, fourth year students, not being able to answer that basic question with so much conviction? We are already seniors, only months away from graduation. But we can't even straightly answer that simple question compared to how we answered that same question back when we were freshmen. Worse is, even I myself doesn't have an answer to the question of why am I staying in the program. Are we lost? Are we confused? Are we undergoing a crisis? I really don't know exactly.

I entered Communication Arts because I used to dream of being a news reporter someday. Years have passed along with the many things I've encountered in this program; I became not as excited to being a news reporter as I was ages ago. As of this moment, I want to be a lawyer. But I know I can't be because I have a lot of things to prioritize than going to law school after graduation.

But because I can't help but romanticize things, I have come to a conclusion that maybe, just like how lovers can't explain why do they remain to be in-love with their beloved, we seniors cannot explain our stay in the program because we are already madly in-love with Communication Arts. Probably, the line: "the more you know about it, the more ignorant you become" is in the works. Of course, it is just because I approached the idea romantically.

One thing I'm sure of, of course, is that Communication Arts and the Communication Arts Students' Association, is a huge part of my present life and that I cannot see myself anywhere else. 

It has become a huge part of my life that I really get offended when I hear people saying that we are just a bunch of singers and dancers. Not that there's something wrong with singing and dancing -- I do believe that sometimes a little of it is what we need to keep to the groove of this fast-paced world -- however, what saddens me is how limited they see us to be, despite the fact that a lot of Communication Arts students are dominating every possible field there is in this university.

It has become a huge part of my life that I started dreaming for it and in behalf of it. Every single day, I look for things that we might improve on and anticipate only the best things for the Association. 

It has become a huge part of my life that I can't even give it away in exchange of a possibility of a higher office.

And while I may not be the best Communication Arts student around or in my batch, Communication Arts and CASA become a huge part of my life for, cliché as it may be, it helped me to be the person I am today and are continuously molding me to become the person I am to be. 

Probably someday, I'll get back to this and rewrite this whole article, explain more clearly about my love for Communication Arts. But right now, all I can say is, I am in-love with the 700+ students of the Communication Arts Students' Association, in a way that is so inexplicable, even I get too lost for words.

And with this, I welcome you my beloved, may we have a fruitful year.