What a UP student is not…

“University of the Philippines”. Sounds intellectual, isn’t it? As we all know, this school molds its students in a civilized way. And being one of the students of this distinguished and well-known university makes me really proud. When I first set foot on this school, I thought it was time to put away my bad traits, to end my happy days and become more focus, more mature and more serious about my studies. The thought of me being surrounded with students who are intelligent and have sharp minds could drive me crazy. Sometimes I feel that I don’t belong here. But like what others say: Expect the Unexpected. I realized that what I actually think was totally wrong. Do you want to know why? It is because I never expected that my classmates are actually jamming, exhilarating and fun to be with.
When somebody asked you to define a UP student, what will you say? “Oh! Students from UP or those who are called Iskolar ng Bayan? They are tremendously and extremely responsible and smart!” You should expect this kind of replies and responses from the people. Notice that they usually say ‘positive’ and encouraging comments from them. But do they actually know what UP students are really like? Defining students positively is already very frequent and universal. Why don’t they define as in the other way or the negative sides of UP students? You’re kind of shocked, right? But anyway, below are some of the negative sides of a UP student:

Answers back his or her teachers. It is not really bad to answer back but sometimes whenever a student exceeds in his or her limitation as a student, then it becomes a bad habit for us. Whenever our teachers commit mistakes, don’t shout or make noise. Just approach him or her calmly with respect and talk to him or her about his or her mistakes. Of course, we are known to respect our teachers.
Some UP students take for granted the opportunity given to them. This is super true. Teachers sometimes say that some students who are not trying hard to be successful are not worthy to become as UP students. Why would we waste people’s taxes if we weren’t trying hard to achieve the standards here in this university? We should be doing our best even though you do not qualify in the honor’s list, at least you know that you’ve done your part as a student.
Some students don’t have the initiative to do his or her part in school works. I mean, making assignments in school isn’t really bad. If you can’t understand the assignment, you can make it the next day with the help of other people. Help in here doesn’t mean that you would copy the answers of your classmates. As in, everything. It is just like disrespecting your classmate because come to think of it: they made that assignment late at night. They made it their selves and they worked hard for it, then you’ll just copy it?
See? You’ll be shocked when you see this facts about ourselves. But there is always a place for a change. If you want to change your bad habits, then you may do so…=)