Today
marked the 400th year of the royal,
pontifical, catholic university of the Philippines.
I
remember when I was a senior at St.
James College of QC. I only took two entrance exams. One was the UPCAT... and the other was the UST Entrance Exam. I remember that I
took the exams at the Education Building
where I saw a lot of hot chicks wearing see-through blouses.
That was
inspiration enough to pass my exams.
Luckily
I was approved in all of my choices. My first choice was Communication Arts because I was poised to follow the footsteps of
my parents in the broadcasting industry. My second choice was Hotel and Restaurant Management... a
kind of a “what if” for me because I would have wanted to travel the globe to
train and work in different posh hotels. My third choice was Business Administration – but looking
back I would have written fine arts because I am often mistaken as a graphic
artist.
After
an assembly line-like registration and being oriented to different things I
would have never tried during high school, I became at tuned to the phenomenon
known to many as college. At this point, being geeky can be seen as being
trendy and tekkie. With the help of my college buddies (Evilbrain, Novice, Geist), I found myself getting hooked at all
sorts of video games. I also learned a lot of vices like smoking, alcohol, and
gambling. What’s epic about my stay in college is the fact that you get
stranded due to floods and you have no choice but to tread the waters to find a
haven.
I also
learned to face cool and unpopular decisions like sacrificing fun with friends
for grades (a Counterstrike
tournament comes to mind), sacrificing friends for grades (I enslaved a person
in doing secretarial work because she gets in the way of our
conceptualization), failing grades (a shoutout to my Philo professor), breaking
laws (an OJT event comes to mind), and falling in and out of love (a bunch of
sources can be mentioned).
Anyway,
moving to my Communication Arts subject was a good experience. I learned to
edit, direct, produce, write, and research – every single day and not a day
goes by that I don’t think the school did a lot for my career. This is the same career that's keeping me out from going back to school.
I am going to return to Tigerlandia to score on your commemorative freebies!
Happy
birthday, UST.
You
are so old right now...
Hopefully
you’ll still get old for a long, long time!
AND HOPEFULLY UST WILL WIN THE 2011 UAAP BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP!
DELO... DE DE DELOOOO...
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