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Mareng Winnie Speaks of Honor and Excellence

This video was taken at least 2 years ago, but its message is universal and never obsolete. It is the kind of video that you watch today and then you click and watch again, just to remind yourself of its lessons. And the lessons here are even more substantial in these times when it is raining cats, dogs and pork.

Prof Winnie Monsod, arguably one of the best professors and economists in the country, takes a habit of giving a speech at the last day of her Economics 100.1 class in UP Diliman. Thanks to cheap and accessible technology, a student was able to capture the moment and was gracious enough to share it. Pardon the irrevocable, unapologetic UPD pride if you do not share my alma mater. But I trust that the rest of her valuable message is deeply applicable to all.

To saving the Philippines. To honor and excellence.

Video credits to owner.

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Oblation to me: ‘Welcome home, you nerd’

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Going back to UP always takes me back to how I once was as an Iskolar ng Bayan–poor, clueless, eager, but a little bit lost and a little bit happier. I am not a millionaire just yet (give me, like 20 years and a good stock tip), but I do believe there is enough productive disparity between the early 20s, stick-thinner me and the present, near-ideal-weight late 20s me. I have seen things, man, and learned things from this ‘real’ world that gives you no shelter from shit. I am enjoying growing up for the most part–if that is what you call this. And I wouldn’t have been so equipped if I spent my last 4 years of education in any other place other than the sprawling fields of UP Diliman – home of non-toxic isaw and fish balls, articulate jeepney drivers and stall vendors, the lingering smell of powder ink and photocopy machine toner, and a good heap of professors who sincerely care about your 360 degree education.

It’s just nice to go back and look back every once in a while, to the days and place when chasing that 1.0 and staging that movie rerun was the biggest deal in the world. Oblation to me: ‘Welcome home, you nerd’.

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