What a UP Student Is Not

UPians are known for their skills, abilities, talents, brilliance and expertise. We are known for our successes and honors we brought for our country. We are also very much known for our very opinionated spirits and very liberal thoughts. We are best remembered as activists or rallyists that really stood for what we believe in, and those who stood bravely for what we think is right.


Being in this very prestigious school is somewhat like a suicide for me. Why? First, our lessons are of no doubt very advance and are for college. Next, we really have to strive hard and give it all our best or else we're going to end up a quitter or a loser. Third, laziness has no place in the UP world. I mean before, I used to just sit around, play around (though I don't critique my old school) and seem to just tale things for granted. But for now, never!


Damn! I also have to sleep late unlike before, when its exactly 8:30, you can already hear me snoring and dreaming chocolates. Now, you bet I would still be awake even after 11:00 pm. That's very tiring. Also, I have never felt such pains in the neck and super stress in my school life. The assignments require great analysis and the projects really takes a day or two or more.


Nevertheless, I know that my future here in UP is bright. I know I have just enrolled in the very best school. This, I think is the closest to getting myself a Harvard degree. I plan to be a pediatrician and replace my pedia. With all these benefits, I noticed that the outside world really has this impression that's so weird that really makes UP isolated and somewhat like a superior.


People think that we are so brilliant and that we are already superiors to them which is a BIG NO! UP students are not superiors of the human race. We're still humans like them and we commit mistakes too. Perhaps, we're superior in specific fields say Law for example. But not to the extent that everyone's afraid of us and our inferiors next to us.

Secondly, they also think that we're so hot-headed and liberated and that we think everything we do is right because of our knowledge. NO WAY! UP is a school wherein its students are encouraged to voice out their feelings, opinions, and reactions. We are not trained to hide in our shells and suppress feelings even if it hurts us. We are trained to speak up for our own rights. Maybe, they think we are like that because they know that we are so active in rallies and demonstrations which is somewhat good (if the agenda are reasonable).


So what if we join those exhausting rallies for a cause? Are we a democratic country? If so, why can't they make a stand too? Next, they think we're already Gods and that even if we commit mistakes, they won't correct us because we always debate and defend our answers and views. Yes. We do defend our answers and explain why we think so because we're trained to do so. Like I say, UPians are also humans. We commit mistakes! And oh, we also want to be corrected. We don't have that high kind of pride that isolates us from them.


Then if we contribute ideas, they feel left out and hopeless and won't contribute ideas because of such beliefs that we're like Gods. NO! We are not Gods. We are nothing less but humans and creatures created by God Himself. We don't mind if there's out there better than us? Do we UPians? But one things for sure - we are Jacks of all Trades.


So the next time you see that oblation, think twice, maybe you want to enroll, or maybe what I'm telling now are facts. The next time you witness an oblation run, think if it has a purpose, or is it just a form of ritual, art or something other than these?