Monday, April 2, 2007

What a UP student is not

Intelligent! That is the first impression we can get from those people who knew that we are studying in the University of the Philippines or U.P. The students who passed the entrance exam and the UP students of course is called the "Iskolar ng Bayan".
Being a UP student is a tough job at all.It requires all your efforts to continue studying here.It needs focus and determination and if you can't give these two factors,then don't expect to be one. Are all UPians really intelligent?" Most UPians are brilliant but not all. I can not say that they are not intelligent. They are also intelligent but they are somewhat not taking it seriously there studies and that makes them that. The good things in UP are the school, the teachers, the quality of education and most likely the students. You can say all the good things about UP.
Upians stand out in any competitions but UPians do not have a long pride. UPians are humble because they know where to be in a situation. In addition, we know how to handle any situation as we possibly could. UP students is not that judge mental although sometimes they have their first impressions. UP students are not disrespectful. They always respect everyone, younger or older than them. I have observed all the things that a UP student must and must not do in order to continue studying in this university.It's just like other ordinary schools except for its very advance teachings and lessons.But aside from that,everyday is just like a normal day in every other high schools.You can see students playing here,chattering and talking about their crushes and stuffs that are not school-related.
What really comprise a UP Student?
A UP student is not rich. I know this isn't true for most of us. There are already a number of students who were accepted in this school even though they are financially rich. Some of us have cars those really expensive and branded cars. I wish I could have one too... At first, those cars were not shown when the registering time is there but when the school year starts, those cars were really shown here and there.
A UP student is also intelligent. They passed the entrance exam in UP and called Iskolar ng Bayan. Many of us nowadays have difficulty in some subjects, that definitely doesn't imply that those students are not worthy in this school. Out of the hundreds who took up that entrance exam, we were the ones who passed and were chosen, which means, we've got something to show off, right?
A UP student has unity. They give importance in every responsibility they may hold. They do not left any responsibility in nothing but they try their best to do something with it. The students always help with each other for the improvement of the school. They cooperate with each other. They do not let anyone interfere with their plans for the good of our school. Unity is always there.
Lastly, a UP students are really cute. Yeah! you are right! may of us were, you know..... Of course we can't say that we are not ugly because no one is ugly. haha!
I am so happy that I am a UP student becaus here in UP, we can enjoy and learn so many things though sometimes we had a hard time learning it. It is a very nice oppurtunity that is given to me to be part of UP.

max schulman's Love is a Fallacy (reaction)

The story love is a fallacy was a very interesting and a funny story. .It was very funny that the girl was already as clever as the guy in the end. Well,that story implied that patience is truly a virtue. I really appreciate the guy because of his patience that he showed to the girl. Though there is a time that he wanted to give up, but still, he continue teaching Polly Espy to make her his perfect wife to be and he really did a great job but he never win a date with Polly because he is already with Petey Bellows just because he had a racoon coat? What is with the racoon roat that made Polly Espy to date with Petey Bellows?It was also very funny that Polly chose Petey,who was very dumb than the Mr.Intelligent guy who is,obviously, intelligent.
In the story, the fallacies were defined and explained well. The story was really well organized. If you can read it, you will surely understand it well. You can really identify or define the characters in the way they are shown in the story. Like the Mr. intelligent guy who is really shown that he is a real intelligent one because as you can read the story, he teaches Polly Espy about the fallacies like Dicto Simpliciter, Hasty Generalization, Post Hoc, Contradictory Premises, Poisoning the Well and many more. as i said, these fallacies were really explained well.
I really feel sad for Mr. Intelligent who is really so patient in teaching those Fallacies to Polly Espy but he did not win her. He had a hard time teaching Polly Espy those fallacies but he did get the best return from Polly which is her. He also did something wrong because he was confident that Petey will choose the racoon coat because of his being stupid.In the end, Mr.Intelligent realizes that he made a mistake.But well, his mistake has done good to others. He made Poly Espy intelligent like him.
I was also amazed by the intelligence of Mr. Intelligent of course. as described in the story,his brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And as you read these descriptions, we can really see that he is really an intelligent one. He was just eighteen but he already knew about these things. Things to be used in reasoning out during court trials. Petey Bellows, for me however, really loves Polly. He wants a raccoon coat because he wants to be with Polly. I think, he already knows about Polly's interests- Big Men in the university so he decided to choose the raccoon coat instead of Polly at the first place because he already knew that time. Poor Man! He didn't know that Petey is somewhat wise. He used his brain well this time even though he was described in the story as dumb as an ok a nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs, Emotional type, Unstable, Impressionable, Worst of all, a faddist. He is an oppisite person from Mr. Intelligent, right?
In this story, we can get so may thing. As I said we can get patience and most of all LOVE is not as easy as one....... two....... three....... and ABC. We need the brain to think.....and think.....and think the right thing to do.