Ma. Angela Faye L. Rufino from Cauayan City, Isabela is currently taking up Bachelor of Science in Development Communication at the University of the Philippines – Los Baños. It was not in her plan to study outside of their province but she wanted to try to live far from her family and to make decisions by herself. Her dream is to be a chemical engineer or chemist. She took and passed the UPCAT, however she did not got the course she wanted. She is still unsure if she can survive in degree program given to her, since she is inclined in math and science.
In elementary, she wanted to be a feature writer but she ended up being the copyreading and headline writer. Angela was forced to join campus journalism because of the heated competition in the honor roll. She is neither a writer nor a reader but she is trying and doing her best. She joined Division Schools Press Conference clueless of what will happen but she won. At a young age, she wanted to continue to become a journalist. She even auditioned in broadcasting team of their school but the teacher said to her that she is not for the said field and should focus on her own event. She started to take a different path, love solving problems, doing experiments and reading various books when she entered high school.
Just like how much she does not like to be called “Maria”, she does not want to stop chasing her dream. Although she was a writer in the past, a writer is always a writer. She’s willing to learn, hone her skills in writing and public speaking and to discover more of what she can do.

