Reminiscing the Past

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It’s 11PM and as I was browsing through Facebook, I saw a blog post shared by the University of the Philippines’ page and a ‘sister’ from my academic organization back in college. Practically obsessed with anything related to UP, I clicked on the link and read the article entitled “Sunflower Stories: The Five Things I Learned in UP” which was authored by Lea Ayuyao. Seemed like a coincidence but I just got back from UPLB to request a copy of my Transcript of Records and a feeling of nostalgia immediately set in. I suddenly relived the best moments of my student life as a “Iskolar ng Bayan”. But then the happy feeling readily faded when I remembered why I was there in the first place. I had to request for my TOR not as a crowning glory for earning a UP degree, but because I needed it to transfer to another school. No, this is not a feel-good success story, far from it actually. But I’d like to share things I have also learned from UP in retrospect, from an underachieving drop-out’s perspective. Live the name If you are like me, I was quite intimidated by the fact that I was going to class with the best high school grads in the country. I was not exactly the academic type in high school so at the back of my mind, I didn’t even deserve to be in the premiere State University. Which is probably why I felt inferior the rest of the way. So don’t make the same mistake I did. If you are in UP, you are meant to be. Once you step in the University, pick up the swag and live the name. Not to the extent of being an A-hole but just enough to make yourself believe that you are ‘that good’ and create a competitive mindset. Savor the Academic Freedom This coming school year, I am going to enter my senior year as a Nursing student in a local college somewhere in my home city. And based on my experience, the academic freedom I was used to in UP and in my current school are night

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