Kezia Charity Escleto Rosero burst into tears after the board examinations for Metallurgical Engineering held last October 2 to 4. Following a rigid, backbreaking review schedule, she made sure to cover everything she learned the past 5 years, she found the exams so difficult that she broke down in frustration.
As was expected by friends, she made it, landing the No. 3 place in the recent licensure exams for “MetEngg”.
Engineering is no longer the male-dominated course that it was in the past. In Kezia’s class at UP Diliman, it’s 50-50 boys and girls. Kezia finds this cool.
Kezia’s favorite subject has always been Science. It has never been a surprise as her mother, Engr. Cynthia Escleto Rosero, is the Philippine mining industry’s first and only woman resident mine manager (RMM), the highest job position in a mining operation. Her “Mame” is RMM at Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corp. (RTN) in Palawan, a subsidiary of Nickel Asia Corp. Her father Engr. Elmo C. Rosero, is also a mining engineer at RTN.
Kezia is planning for a second course or even a master’s degree because in her heart she knows she wants to dive into work immediately and practice her craft first, even considering joining the mining industry.
Asked for a message for kids who would like to follow in her footsteps, she has this to say — “take care of your mental health.”
Young adults these days face many undefined mental pressures because of how the world has opened up wide for them and whether consciously or otherwise, many are taken off guard.
Kezia believes her generation is prepared for the future because, like her, they have access to all the information they need to be able to make a sound decision and choose a worthy path.
“Just like the debate about mining in Palawan — I understand the science. As a young person, I am aware of my responsibilities to climate change and what’s at stake in the future and I will forever be a student of social science so I know what I am getting into and I am sure many young scientists like me do,” Keiza declares.
