A Guide in Surviving TEP

Well, the holidays are about to end, and it’s going back to school in about a week for most of you. Some of you are probably happy after rotting at home to finally return and see your friends, while others who do not mind rotting at homeand hate the fact that they’re going back to school. Whatever the case, school is still around the corner.

BUT it’s a new environment now, one that doesn’t involve lecture notes, tutorials or ICAs. It’s a real working situation where you get a little taste of the media industry and how it operates.

Yep, no more of this too.

Now I can see you panicking, pull up your pants and just follow these few steps to get your game on track.

Step 1: Final Cut Pro (FCP)

This is the editing software that most of you would be tinkering with once you enter the Media Hub; some of you rather not edit and dump it on teammates during production ICAs.

It has a free camera too!

I cannot stress enough that this is a very, VERY important life skill once you enter the Media Hub, there’s no way you can buy yourself out of messing around with FCP (unless you’re experienced with the loan sharks). Even so, you’ll be doing nothing if you do not wish to edit on FCP for most of the days in TEP, and that would really bring life to the phrase: “dying of boredom”.

Step 2: Come Early

This isn’t Year 1 or 2, where you can waltz in tutorial rooms or lecture halls, or even decide which days to skip and go. Those were the days, but they’re currently storedin the attic with your cutting classes during secondary school and primary school fake sick bay excuses.

Fortunately, the media believes in the grace period (10 minutes), so take that to your advantage by applying it to situations on whether to lie in bed for another good 5 minutes before going to the shower.

That is, if your alarm clock doesn’t screw you over

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However, the grace period is a double edged sword, whereby if you happen to arrive in at 9:11a.m, they will take 11 minutes on what you owe to TEP instead of 1 minute.

So my advice (the irony of it coming from me) would be getting the hell on time, it’s a good habit to practice when you enter the real working world and desperately wish you have a car so you can avoid the freaking train during peak hours.

Step 3: Don’t Facebook

Nuff said.

Step 4: Breaks

The way how breaks work in TEP is that someone HAS to be in the room at all times. So not everyone can go strolling out once its 12 o’clock, oh no, someone has to stay behind.

At 12 o’clock, angry, sugar-derived, hungry, starving people will do anything to NOT be the person staying behind. So backstabs, betrayals and sneaking out will be common during these hours.

Your imagination tends to go wild when you’re hungry

For obvious purposes, I won’t divulge my trade secrets in sneaking out for lunch breaks, but what I can tell you, is to take exactly an hour for your lunch breaks, because while you’re eating, your fellow classmates are probably considering cannibalization, and you wouldn’t want to walk into a room of hungry cannibals when your belly is full to the brim, now, would you?

So, that’s basically the few basic steps in TEP that are pretty much needed for your ensured survival in the Media Hub.

Results may vary