An
incoming freshman ISKO/ ISKA? Congratulations for making it to one of the
country’s prestigious university. I would like to welcome you in the new
chapter of your life, your UP Life.
Perhaps it was what you have dreamt about
since you were in elementary. For you, getting your UP ID card equates good and
high-paying job. Or at least you could also use it as a license to brag.
Perhaps,
it was not your choice to be in here, but your parents’. The dream of entering
UP was not your dream but theirs. You are not the one who is after the bragging
rights (ehem, for amigos y amigas’ sake) but them.
Maybe, it
was half-your-choice and half-you-have-no-choice. Your tatay and nanay can’t
afford to send you to Ateneo or La Salle. As a matter of fact, tatay needed to
sell a piece of the family’s farming land and Puti, a carabao, to sustain your
college education. You are their only hope and you do not want to fail them.
You
are here. Not in another school, but in here. Why in here, I may not know. But
I believe you are here, FOR A PURPOSE. I know this sounds so cliché, yet I
believe that this is God’s opinion of why you are here. And God’s opinions are
truth to us.
