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They say UPians have everything; although they may not have the physical beauty that would probably surpass those of other private schools but they have their very gorgeous internal beauty, and most of all and I am sure everyone knows this, “they’ve got the brains”.

By the way I am proud to say that I am a full-blooded UPian. And I am writing this just to inform you all that a UPian is not everything that you think he or she may be. UP students like me have our limitations.

As this entry goes on, you will probably discover similarities and differences that we UPians have, like any other ordinary students out there, whether from a public or private institution.

We are not geeks. We are not fat, over-diligent, all-knowing people with horn-rimmed glasses who isolated themselves from the rest of the world to study! So, you can now forget the assumption that we are not just outspoken boys and girls who sulk in classrooms or in libraries. We go to the mall too!

Speaking of bluntness, we can’t just keep our feelings to ourselves. Everything about UP excudes freedom of expression. You can do whatever you like to your life because for one, it’s your life; and only you can decide whether to live it your way or let others drive your life for you. I mean, these people don’t even know what you like. So, why don’t you stand out, get your life back and live it your way?

And so much for that, now let’s go to some of our negative or our opposite side. First in the list is cleanliness. If you enter UP high or when a visitor enters the campus without us knowing or us students knowing, oh my God! It’s a mess. The surroundings are really dirty. Maybe because we students are just tired in listening and answering questions.

Next is, we UPians are lazy. If you think that we are very diligent in studying our lessons, well you are very wrong. For example, we are deadliners, as in we submit our projects during the deadline and sometimes we ask for extension. Another, we are last minute people. Like during our “Florante at Laura”, oh I can’t say anything good. That was very messy because imagine this, we had only practiced the whole play during that very day (our presentation is still in the evening).

Another thing about us that is really true, we don’t work individually or selfishly we work on our assignments as a class. But take note, we only do this if we have assignments and not during tests.

And in addition if you were there you would really be surprised because you will think that you are in Carbon or in Pasil or in any place that is crowded because of our noise meaning we are noisy people.

UPians are also afraid of long quizzes or any other kinds of tests. I am not saying that all of the students studying in this institution are dull, of course 95% of the total population of UP are intellectuals. What I am trying to say is that you can’t really say that a person is clever if he or she studies at UP, you must also know his or her participation in school academically.

Now, I already had given you a few of the UPians another side behind their brains.

Lastly, they say UPians are free because they are living in a democratized environment. You’re wrong. Although yes, we are living in a democratized environment but we are not free to do whatever we want. Like bringing of cellphones. But I do understand our administrators because me, myself knows that this can disrupt our learning. But I can’t still feel the freedom.

So what do you think of us, UPians?