UST Freshmen Week 2018
|Personal & Events|
Stepping up
in college is a nerve-wracking point in someone’s life and I am one of those
few who haven’t had a single clue how my first days in college were gonna go
through but with UST’s multifarious persona my nerves were put to a silence.
The University of Santo Tomas made it a tradition to welcome their Freshmen
batches with a bang and this bang is brought to us in a week, and they call
this Freshmen Week. For this year, I am one of them that was celebrated
together with my co-freshies from all departments and from all colleges.
According to
the article that was released by The Varsitarian, the university welcomed 16,
827 freshmen students for the Academic Year 2018-2019 and yours truly being one
of them – our batch being the pioneer batch because we are the 1st
ones to enter college that finished the experiment that is called “K to 12”.
The
festivities started on the 1st of August, to start the new year
right for the new students a mass was help the university’s church which was
not mandatory for us to attend but we are encourage to. And because of our
block being the most noisy ones according to the majority of the freshmen batch
for my program, they wanted that some of us meet early on during the mass
rather than what was planned in the late afternoon. Oh, and if ever you are
wondering what my program is. I am taking up Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at
the Faculty of Arts & Letters in UST. So some of us met early on and this
group of people really became the ones that clicked with me and eventually
hailed to be my tropa in our section.
In the late
afternoon of the same date, a general assembly for the new set journalism
freshies was commenced headed by the UST Journalism Society, which is basically
the head council of the Journalism program. Here the leaders met with us and
actually let us introduce each other in front of the 3 sections that formed
this year’s freshmen journalism students which was a body of over 400 students.
Skipping to
the August 3rd, this was a day that the whole freshmen batch
anticipates because on this day the ROARientation was to be held at the
Quadricentennial Pavilion (QPav). Two batches were formed for the ROARientation
and we were scheduled for the afternoon session which was a good thing because
I still get to sleep in more. I do apologize because I would not get to really
share to you what went on with the ROARientation but we did a great job on
chanting the ever so famous chant “Go USTe!”
Monday came,
the 6th of August, the day that will make a big mark on every
freshman that shall walk the halls of UST. The Freshmen Walk is amidst us, the
Freshmen Walk is a proud tradition that UST upholds to, this walk signifies the
entrance of a new frontier that shall be challenged and enhanced by the power
of the Royal and Pontifical University. Freshmen students shall enter through
the Arc of the Century, according to myth you can only enter the Arc once and
exit it once you are graduated, fail to comply to this tradition or so called
myth means that you bound to debarment, but that’s a myth but hey myths do have
it’s roots so we might as follow rather than taking that horrendous risk of
debarment.
On this day,
in the evening the Welcome Party happened, and their special guest performers
were no other than Ben&Ben. The Welcome Party is sort of a mini concert
especially celebrated just for the freshmen batch but of course all are
welcome. My god was it a night to remember. For me I will surely remember that
night because 1st, it is my first time seeing Ben&Ben and
watching them perform I mean their music really connects with my core plus 2nd
this was the first night that I drank alcohol and liked it – I had 3 bottles.
The drinking session with some new friends happened before we watched
Ben&Ben performed so I was really hyper during the concert. And WOW! Was it
a night to remember, I even got chills run through just by remembering that
day…
More things
happened before, during, and after those big events that I just told you about
but they are for me and my colleagues to keep and reminisce. And I can say with
this, that this just proved me that student life here in UST will not bore me
to dust because I know that they too prioritize the student’s life and not just
his academic life and that’s one thing I adore with UST. Okay, you can call
this an advertisement for you guys to enroll in UST but you reading this, if
you want to experience the college life, why not experience it with me and this
institution that I know will deliver those standards and break them for sure.
I hope you
guys enjoy reading about my Freshmen Week, I apologize for not posting as much
because I really got caught up with work load and everything new with my life
so yeah please bear with me. If you like this post or just wanna share
something about you and your college life, comment it down below. See you again
soon!
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