by Alex | Sep 27, 2015 | Sports
I recently started following the UAAP men’s basketball. I mainly have lost interest in it due to the fact that UP has been losing and that I have been critical of the lack of coverage of the other sports. But what can you do when you live in a basketball...
by Alex | Aug 10, 2014 | Sports
A sigh of relief as UP’s Men’s Basketball Team finally notched a win after two years and 27 losses? No. Talk about going all out to celebrate the losing-streak breaking win with a bonfire. It’s the first time in my existence as a maroon that I...
by Alex | Apr 12, 2011 | Education
I seldom acknowledge my students in this blog since I usually stereotype them as spoiled brats who never displayed the academic rigor expected of UP students. However, I have to hand it to John Gabriel Pelias – my former English 1 student and the valedictorian...
by Alex | Apr 19, 2010 | Education
It’s graduation time once again and I wonder how many kids will be walking tall just because they’d be graduating cum laude or its higher variants. This might be a bit of sourgraping but it seems that it’s just so easy to get honors these days. The...
by Alex | Mar 25, 2010 | Education
It’s quite interesting how people view the Quezon Hall paint throwing incident yesterday. Facebook was practically a warzone between those who lauded the students’ move of throwing paint at a school official and those who believed that UP has really dumbed...