According to the Inquirer online, the Ateneo schools topped the 2010 Bar Examination with five bar passers who belong to the top 10 examinees, one of which is from the Ateneo de Davao University and four of which are from the Ateneo de Manila University's College of Law. Meanwhile, the University of the Philippines College of Law bagged four topnotchers.
I believe that the Ateneo de Manila University is really doing good in the Bar Examination for the past years. I also think that their curriculum wherein a certain semester in their fourth year is devoted in reviewing some parts of the bar.
This aspect of the curriculum for the Juris Doctor program offered by the Ateneo College of Law is not present in UP Law's curricula for the morning and evening classes. If UP Law has this review program in their curricula and if the college is more serious about the bar exam, then I believe that UP Law will also or if not, be able to produce more bar topnotchers than the Ateneo Law.
I respect that these two legal institution have their own forte and specialization, however, people especially those who do not know the content of the curricula of these two schools will primarily judge them according to the number of the topnotchers that they have produced. And that I, being an aspiring law student in the future, I may basically be influenced by this type of comparison and irrationality that people usually do to judge a certain law student.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Blessed Sunday
This morning as I attended the 10 AM mass, I felt emotionally happy and contented. It was like I can breathe freely without minding anything. It was like God is talking to me saying that I ca surpass everything, and just hold Him tight, and never to let go. I am so inspired to do great and offer to Him every moment and every sacrifice that I do.
Have a blessed Sunday, too!
Dinner at Rodics with Julius and Tin Babao
While Abby, Joanna and I were having a conversation at Rodics while also having dinner, Julius and Tin Babao sat beside us on the same table where we are having our dinner! At first we didn't notice that they are the couple because the person who sat beside me is an old woman and that she looked irritated with my bag on the table and I put it there as if it was block in the middle of the table. So Abby looked at me as if saying to remove it to give respect to the old woman. As I remove the bag, a woman who presented herself as a professor of the Film Institute approached Tin and asked for her autograph and photo with her. And from that instance, I told Abby that she is a alumna of the UP College of Mass Communication's Film Program and said that I wanted to invite her for our Broadcast Communication Week but she is not from the Broadcast Department. Then a man seemed to look at me as I said those words to Abby. I never thought that it was her husband Julius. Abby and I just finished eating our meal while Joanna waited for her order- she said she's still busy doing school work. So there, we never even said 'hello' to them. I immediately told my friends about it over my phone. This is one crazy yet cool night!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
BC WEEK
This is to inform everyone that the BC Dept. will hold its first BC Week on March 15-18, 2011.
On the first two days, March 15-16, we will hold the Student Colloquium titled Kritika: a festival of criticisms, featuring our BC Graduate and Undergraduate students' researches to be presented by members of the classes of Dr. Eli Guieb, Prof. Josefina Santos and Mr. Choy Pangilinan. Respective reactors from CMC, CAL and CSSP will also be part of the colloquium. This event will be held at theCMC Auditorium and subsequent simultaneous sessions at the Media Center BC Seminar Room. This colloquium is the precursor to the envisioned The Cheche Lazaro Lecture Series.
On March 17, the UP Cyberdwende Website will be launched by the Internet Communication Studies (Com 150) class of Prof. Data Canlas at 10.30am at the Broadcast Viewing Room. In the afternoon, the UPTV Online will have its premiere showing of several films collectively titled:Virgins vs. Aliens. UPTV Online is an annual project of the classes of Prof. Jane Vinculado and BC lecturer Dexter Mantes.
On March 18, the BC 122 (Scriptwriting) class of Dr. Eli Guieb will launch the first ever book on scriptwriting by the broadcast students called 122: Antolohiya ng mga teleplay at the CMC TV studio at 2.00pm.
Immediately following this book launch is the world premiere of several videos by the BC 160 (Broadcasting and Development) and the BC 197 (Ethnographic Videography) classes of Dr. Eli Guieb, also at the TV studio.
We invite you, your faculty, students, and staff to these events.
As a culminating activity for the broadcast majors, we hope to institutionalize the Broadcast Communication Week every year to close the academic year.
Please help us disseminate these event to others.
Thank you for your kind attention and assistance to make this week-long event a success.
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IT RAINED CATS AND DOGS: My first ten hours at P.A.W.S.
The statue located infront of the office of PAWS.
When our professor in CWTS-2 Dr. Arminda Santiago announced in class that our 20-hour immersion will be at the Philippine Animal Welfare Society, I doubted my capacity to handle dogs and cats. I was a dog-lover before but when my favourite dog died five years ago, I never had a dog to love so I just ignore some canine in our house, while cats keep on scarring me with their paws so I never appreciated them.
Ma'am Anna of PAWS
During the orientation held on February 7, Ma’am Anna’s statement “Walang asong gala, kung walang may aring pabaya,” really got my attention. It is indeed true, that no dogs and cats will be in the streets especially here in UP Diliman campus, if we are just responsible pet owners. And she said that Spay and Neuter is one of the solutions that can properly manage the increasing number of pets.
Ma'am Anna as she shows us around PAWS Rehabilitation Center
I asked her during the orientation about the stand of PAWS to animals used in laboratory for scientific experiments, she answered that they are not against it as long as the 3 Rs are observed: Reduce, Replace, and Refine. She said that if you are going to use animals for experimentation, you are reducing the number of animals, therefore you need to replace it, and to refine it. Just like when cutting trees in forests, to properly keep the balance in the nature you need to replace the ones that you cut. Maybe, it’s just a cycle of life which is observed not only in tresst in the forests, but also to animals.
This is Lala as she gets Kina from the kennel.
In PAWS, I learned so much about dogs and cats- from proper way to introduce yourself to them, to the proper way to bathe these pets. I never imagined there is such a way and manner to introduce yourself to your pets! It’s a special case since our Ma’am Armi taught me how to please cats, while a senior volunteer in PAWS named Lala taught me how to introduce myself to a dog and how to properly bathe it.
The proper way to bathe a dog: Do not wet its head first.
The afternoon right after the orientation, I came back. My first task in PAWS is bathing Kina- a dog who just underwent spay, thanks to Lala for the proper guidance on how to bathe Kina! After bathing her, I took her for a walk. She is like any other dog who likes running and playing around, but her condition keeps her some sort of uncomfortable so after 45 minutes of walking with her, I brought her back to her cage.
After my very first task with Kina, I just opted to clean the garden in front of the place where the names of the dogs and cats who passed away are located. I thought that by doing so will make these pets happy, even in such a very simple way. And after that tiring task, I went to the cattery and saw the food bowls in the washing area, so I just grabbed the opportunity to wash those up.
This part of the PAWS Rehabilitation Center touches me most. Love is beyond life.
I was requested by the partner of Ma’’am Anna who is an alumna of the UP Film Institute, to scoop some soaps. I did it and I was able to scoop a sack of soaps in just one sitting! Because of PAWS, I am learning so much about myself, even this skill which I also consider as a talent, perhaps.
The second day that I visited PAWS, another senior volunteer helped me out in bathing two dogs! I am thankful to Joneca for guiding me again in bathing Boogie and Miles. These two dogs are the most energetic dogs that I have ever seen, except for my best dog friend, Chubby. After bathing the two dogs, I played around with the other dogs but I was warned that a certain dog bites so I better keep away from it. I got scared so I just transferred but Ma’am Anna requested me to do something.
I never thought that I will literally get a headache after doing the task given by Ma’am Anna. She asked me to count cats inside the cattery and kittenery according to their colors. These cats are playful and that it has given me headache counting them. On my first try, Ma’am Anna said that she was disappointed because it was far from her record. I got frustrated so I really observed and counted the cats again. On my second try, Ma’am Anna said that it’s almost correct however her records are also questionable so she can’t really decide if I get the numbers right. So far, that’s the most difficult task that I have ever had.
I arrived at PAWS minutes before 10 in the morning and that made me happy that I will finally complete my first ten hours and will be able to see my favourite PAWS pets again. The last hour of my first ten hours was more on cleaning and doing some errands posted on the to-do list. I cleaned the back of the Multi-Purpose Hall, the cattery, and also the enormous amphitheatre. I got so sweaty on these tasks but it’s all worth it because these pets deserve a clean surrounding. It’s just saddening to know that Ma’am Anna who served as the administrator who checks me, is absent on the day I finished my first ten hours of internship at PAWS, so I just asked the senior volunteer Kuya John to sign my immersion form.
The Philippine Animal Welfare Society. Be a volunteer now!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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