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Ateneo Survey

(x) eat at Manang’s-- better yet, heard of Pampangueña? Manong's grilled pork spareribs can beat Manang's anytime-- too bad he already passed on (RIP)

(x) learn the Alma Mater - since High School

(x) get on the Dean’s List- seven times in College, seven times in Law School

( ) lie down and sleep on a bench along EDSA walk -

( ) be a TNT!

( ) jog around the campus in the evening

(x) visit the art gallery-- Professor Eric Torres, the long-time curator, was my teacher in En 21

( ) know at least one xerox lady, manong, or technician by name - don't know them by name but we all knew our xerox boys in law school

(x) get a Jesuit for a teacher-- better yet, your classmates becoming Jesuits

( ) itch from higad bites

( ) have gotten an F in something - NEVER! Lowest Grade: C+ and only two of them (En11 and Marketing). Majority of my grades were A's.

( ) have taken a crap in school

(x) watch a La Salle vs. Ateneo UAAP game - bleachers, we won the championship then!

(x) give a PowerPoint presentation-- we used the old Harvard Presentation Graphics back then...

( ) study in the caf upstairs - used to be classrooms during our time and I study at the library annex

(x) watch a T.A. play- Waiting for Godot

( ) sit on the SEC ledge and watch the stars

(x) eat in Full House, Martha’s Kitchen, and Ken Afford - I forgot their former names but I think I ate there because those were the only ones we had... (McDonald's just opened during 4th year College)

(x) sleep in the lib-- you work (study) hard, you sleep hard also

( ) visit Mr. San Andres-- he's still Dean of Students?

(x) go to the chapel

(x) have gotten a pebble stuck in your shoe/slippers in the middle of the quad-

( ) cut class with your block to watch a movie - only cut ROTC and one Jsp 101 class

(x) sign up for those institutional (i.e. difficult but brilliant) teachers: Ferriols, Dacanay, David, Manacsa, Ang, Escaler, Arcilla, Totanes, etc.)-- WHAT? Dacanay, Manacsa and Arcilla difficult teachers? Aced Arcilla and Dacanay, Manacsa was at least a batch lower and a good friend (if that's Dacs Manacsa we're talking about, we went to Japan together on a government-sponsored study tour...) Avoided Padre Ferriols like the plague and people said I made a mistake...

( ) go to CERSA night -

( ) have tried siomai rice

( ) learn how to smoke-- In high school, of course peer pressure made me try... but luckily, I did not catch on

(x) fall in love-- fourth year college to most of law school

(x) actually read the book you keep borrowing from the lib-- the lib's my office, remember?

(x) play cards during your free time-- during our time, it was "Pekwa Pusoy" aka "Pusoy Dos"

(x) dress in business attire-- a few presentations during college and more often than not in law school (dress code there in effect)

(x) learn to stay awake for more than 24 hours straight - surivival technique of the many, a must have in one's arsenal of college survival skills

( ) have gotten side comments from ASSOC- friends with a lot of them during my time...

( ) take (and enjoy) Saturday classes - ROTC sucks donkeys!

(x) go to your immersion - very near only, in Pansol, QC

( ) eat Food for Thought sandwiches - I have no idea what this is...

(x) get a girlfriend-- technically my first love...

(x) take time to read the vandalism on the CR doors-- for some reason, it was a good pastime, never tried the numbers, though

( ) watch “Minsan Lang Sila Bata” and “Macho Dancer” for class

(x) do a last minute paper - Not often, I hate cramming. But when I had to I can deliver

( ) have spent a lot for 1x1 ID pictures

(x) get exempted from final exams-- In high school, a lot, don't remember in college and law school never.

(x) attend a college mass

( ) promise to quit smoking - Never got the habit

( ) play hide-and-seek in the mini-forest - WTF?

( ) know where the best restrooms are on campus-- they all suck during our time

(x) join an org

( ) allow yourself to make mistakes (but make sure you sort them out before you graduate)-- that's my folly, most of my mistakes I made in the real world

(x) take summer class-- had nothing else to do during summer so I took advance classes (hence, my Minor degree in Japanese Studies and 12 extra units in Spannish)

(x) admire the sacred heart statue in the evening - For those who don't know, in place of this statue now stands the Church of the Gesu but I think the statue is still there somewhere (heard a lot of "miracles" used to happen there at night also when it was just the statue there...)

( ) make a video for a project -

(x) have a crush on a teacher - only in High School. raging hormones

(x) attend a Jesuit retreat - in high school also, given by the Fr. (then Bro.) Carmelo Caluag, S.J.

( ) have gotten a parking ticket-- did not drive a car then...

(x) come to school in your crappiest yet most comfy clothes - fashion plate, I'm not, so technically everything I wore then was crap...

( ) learn how to use the Bayantel pay phones - during our time twenty five centavo coins (Hence, the famous Dingdong Avanzado song) were all the rage... no celfones, no phone cards, life was simpler then with no one checking on your whereabouts all the time

(x) participate in school activities

(x) catch the Blue Babble Batallion tryouts-- catch only, not actually try out

(x) date an Atenean-- almost married one...

(x) find a tambayan - Lib walk and Lib Annex

(x) ride a tricycle on campus-- all the time, but sometimes walking is better

(x) admire the Marikina valley at night-- fantastic view from LHS (incidentally, also from our village)

(x) learn how to beg for a higher grade - twice in my last sem so I could finish my college stay in dean's list. It worked but I did not really beg because Dra. Astorga miscalculated my grade so I technically deserved it...

(x) use your cuts wisely - honor students have unlimited cuts but of course they knew we don't use them. used all my cuts in ROTC, and that's a wise move...

( ) volunteer to be class beadle - beadles are more relevant in high school than in college

( ) had the worst lottery schedule for reg - serving in ORCOM every year has its rewards

(x) admire the trees on campus - we were under Fr. Macayan, remember? but I didn't talk to them, though

( ) have forgotten your freecut and gone to that class

(x) eat in the ISO canteen-- not during college

(x) be active in your org

( ) have signed up on an ACP class just because the girl or guy you like signed up for it

( ) get as many app forms as you can during the job fair - None during our time. During our time, jobs came to us...

( ) learn how to cram - Hate this, but I know how....

(x) sell tickets (or watch) an org-sponsored movie premiere-- we actually held one for our Mgt 21 class. If I remember correctly, the movie was Kindergarten Cop

( ) save money to Xerox all of your seatmate’s notes - They copy from ME.

( ) have accidentally seen a make-out session -

( ) check out the meron lagoon and lambingan bridge - Don't know that...

( ) have dozed off in class in Bel right after a class in CTC/SOM/Comm Bldg or vice versa -

( ) learn how to work with groupmates from hell

( ) perfect the art of parking on campus -Did not have a car then...

( ) had a bad encounter with one of the guards on campus

( ) develop a love for sisig - way after law school on this one, along with developing a love for all forms of alcoholic drinks...

( ) learn how to pronounce “AEGIS” properly - Some people can't?

(x) have used typing rooms at the library-- yes we actually USED a TYPEWRITER then...

(x) have reserved a classroom, AVR, etc for a class or org function -

( ) have asked the lib for an endorsement to research in other libraries

( ) have lost a perfectly functioning umbrella - I guard them with my life...

( ) have used consultation hours properly

(x) looked forward to lab breakage refund, in case you didn’t break any equipment-- hey, that's still extra money...

( ) visit the Guidance Office

transcription by Punzi @ 9:51 AM