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At last

June 26, 2017    |    0 COMMENT(S)



This is the result of nine years in UP: finally that Sablay on my left shoulder with the purple tassel on it. It still feels surreal. This is what I've been working on for most of my adult life: getting good grades in high school so I can enter a good university, working my ass off in college to land a spot in law school, crying myself to sleep just to get that juris doctor degree. And now here we are! Is it really the end? How the hell did I make it??? I can't believe it's been 10 years since I took the UPCAT. And wasn't it only yesterday that I wrote it a love letter, of sorts, after graduating from college? 

I know I sound like a broken record, but man, UP really was my dream school. My family (especially my Tita Gina) did a great job of going all Inception on me ever since I was young. They were pretty consistent in making me believe that it was a place where dreams came true.

Was it everything I expected it to be? Yes, and no. It has its failures: it is just like the outside world. Some people are terrible, some ideas are trash, some institutions should be reformed. But at the same time, it is nothing like anything else out there. There is kindness, there is wisdom, there is love. There is comfort in knowing that when people come together with great ideas and with compassion, so much good can be done.




Wow. I guess this is really it. 

Thank you, UP, for the privilege of being nurtured by you. I hope one day I can repay the taxpayers for the eight-and-a-half-years of funding for my tuition. I promise you, I'll do you proud one day. Just you wait :) 


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