o ayan.. mang-aaway na naman ako ng eskwelahan.

well, hindi naman masyado. slight lang.


kasi dahil nga mahilig akong mag-multiply hopping, i came across this blog post about LIFE.


hahaha... nde jowk lng.



tungkol na naman sa mga eskwelahan dito sa PILIPINAS.



the author's name is Quito if i'm not mistaken.
so wala lng... credits lang. haha... :))


for the blog post itself, here's the link: Atenista, Lasalista, at iba pa, basahin niyo ito


pero kung tamad naman kayo pumindot ng link, edi basahin niyo na lang dito.



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Atenista, Lasalista, at iba pa, basahin niyo ito.

I just came home from Ateneo. Tonight was the reception dinner for those who made it to the Director’s List this year. Not everyone of course. Just those who are in the School of Humanities and the John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM). Anyway, masaya yung event tonight. Ang daming sinabi na stuff about Ateneo which will really make anyone proud of being an Atenean.

The highlight however was when my parents and I got to talk to the Dean of the JGSOM after the dinner.

In his opening talk, Dean Rudy Ang said that he was really itching to talk about the rankings of the schools which La Salle proudly showed in its acceptance letter. Unfortunately, he couldn't talk about it publicly due to professional ethics so after the dinner, my parents and I asked him about it. And he was really so emphatic about what he said. You should've seen him. haha. This is what he said.

In that ranking by The Times of London, La Salle was about a hundred ranks above Ateneo. Ang ganda pa ng pagkaka sulat nila dun eh. Una, nkasulat, “De La Salle University” highlighted in green. Tapos sa ilalim nun, highlighted in blue, “Other Private University”. Obviously, patama un sa Ateneo diba? Done in bad faith pa. As an Atenean, nakaka asar, naturally. The thing is, Ateneo has consistently been ahead of Lasalle in that ranking, albeit by only a few ranks. But did Ateneo ever brag about those rankings? Did Ateneo ever direct such propaganda against La Salle? NO. Why? Mainly because it is unethical. Ateneo doesn’t teach its students to put down others for personal gain. It is against the moral norms taught by the Ateneo as a Catholic institution. Lasalle happens to be a Catholic school too. Hmm. I wonder why they did such a thing…

But to this idea, Dean Ang said something interesting. He said that in doing such a thing, La Salle showed that it really is a good business school. I agree, La Salle is a good school too. But why did Dean Ang say such a thing? Because in doing so, La Salle showed a very basic marketing principle in action. What is this, you may ask? It is this: when you are losing against a competitor, you should attack your leading competition so that you will have an edge. La Salle precisely did this. Of course, when you are already number one, why will you attack your competition? Why will you go down to their level? This is why Ateneo never bragged about having a higher ranking in that same survey than La Salle during the previous years. The university also doesn’t brag about having a very high rank in the World Universities Debate Championship even if we ranked 5^th in the world while Yale is 8^th, Harvard is 31^st, Princeton is 36^th, La Salle is 80^th and UP is 81^st. You don’t see Ateneo publish those for all to see.

Another thing about that survey. According to Dean Ang, that ranking was based on 4 criteria. First, employability of students upon graduation in which Ateneo was the best in the country. The second criteria I forgot but we also topped it. The third one I also forgot but I remember that we were behind UP in this criteria. The last one was where we placed last.

This criterion was about something like the effectiveness or competency of the teachers of Ateneo. It was a shock that Ateneo placed last in this criterion. Certainly, Ateneo has one of the best faculty in the country. Several teachers have doctorates in their fields. Most of them also have Masters degrees from prestigious schools from around the world. Some of these schools include Georgetown University, Fordham University, Yale, Wharton School of Business, and Harvard. Certainly, the Ateneo faculty is competent enough.

Why is it then that the Ateneo was ranked 4^th behind UP, La Salle and UST? Well, according to The Times of London, they only based this criterion on one factor: teacher-student ratio. They reasoned that the smaller the ratio, the more effective the teachers are, the better the students learn. How did they gather the data? They asked the universities to submit their data. So Ateneo said that they had a combined total of 11,000 students in both the Loyola Schools and the Professional Schools in Rockwell. They also reported that they had an x number of full-time faculty. They didn’t include the part-time faculty who made up the bulk of the faculty of Ateneo. (For instance, JGSOM has 22 full-time faculty and 80 or so part-time faculty.)

Ateneo de Manila didn’t know what the data was going to be used for. As a result, The Times of London counted a very high student-to-teacher ratio for Ateneo.

What about La Salle’s case? Well, they did not submit such data. Because of this, The Times got their La Salle data by logging into the website of DLSU. The website listed all the members of the faculty, including those who taught part-time. There were of course a lot. The website also reported that DLSU had 10,000 students. This of course is not true. DLSU has a bigger population than Ateneo. In fact, DLSU Manila alone has about 16,000 students already. The DLSU system has double the entire student population of Ateneo. From this, we can see that the data which The Times used is flawed. From our programming classes in high school, we learned about GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out. The data was flawed, therefore, the result is flawed.

What makes it even worse is that La Salle knew about this flawed data used by The Times of London yet they never lifted a finger to correct the mistake. And now they're using it to get back at Ateneo? What a shame for an institution of such prestige to do! Well, if you look at it. they're consistent anyway. Just look at their basketball program.

Oh yeah! They got suspended from the UAAP for "unknowingly" fielding illegitimate players. Now tell me. Those players had been playing for almost 2 years already when they "discovered" the issue. Is it just me or isn't 2 years such a long time for them to be able to "discover" such a thing? Most Ateneans would say that they knew it all along and that they just revealed it when it was about to blow over. But in fairness to La Salle, they could really just have discovered it. But wait a minute. Doesn't that just show that the administration and the coaching staff and the other people concerned are too incompetent to discover such a thing even if they had 2 years to check on these players' records? (Wait, this isn't the topic of this article. Sorry for the digression. :p) Let me stop at that thought because it after all isn't the real topic of this article. Moving on...

Now, you might say that I am just a bitter Atenean who can’t accept the fact that our rival school is better rated in the world than our own school. I admit that there is some feeling of resentment on my part. I believe it is alright to show everyone how good you are. But I don’t think it’s the same thing as showing how good you are OVER YOUR RIVAL. What I am merely doing is defending my school. All my friends know that I do love Ateneo very much. I feel that it is just right for me to defend my school from all these insults and undeserved criticism.

After all, hindi ka ba mapipikon kung gaguhin ng karibal mo ang nanay mo?

anyway, if you want to read more, here is how Ateneo explains the survey. Click this!!

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nung post niya. pero ung saken, hindi pa. hahaha...




binabalaan na kita, mahaba ang post na 'to. kaya kung nagmamadali ka, wag mo nang ituloy basahin.




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katulad ng nasa naunang blog post ko before nito, UP ako. at mahal ko ang paaralang ito. pero may puwang din sa puso ko ang Ateneo. bakit? kasi ito ang muntik ko nang maging tahanan sa kolehiyo.


pano? eto. basahin mo.




nung nalaman kong pwede nang tignan ung results ng ACET dun sa site nila, xempre ako naman excited tignan na kinakabahan din. kasi yun ung unang result na makukuha ko sa tatlong pinagkuhanan ko ng entrance test.. btw, UPCAT, ACET, at USTET lang ang kinuha ko. YUN LANG. never pumasok sa isip ko na mag-exam pa sa ibang universities. sayang lang ung application fee. wala naman talaga kong balak pumasok dun if ever eh. (oo na, mayabang na naman ako.)



tapos ayun. nakita ko nga STATUS: ACCEPTED. so masaya ko, xempre. as in sinave ko pa nga ung page na un eh.. haha.. adeek.


e tapos nung UPCAT results na ang inilabas, nawindang ako. as in. kasi PENDING ako.



PENDING.



sobrang ilang araw at linggo akong nagpaka-depress dyan sa PENDING STATUS na yan. at ilang beses nang pumuntang Office of Admissions ang tatay ko. tapos nalaman ko, na kulang pala ng grade yung andun sa transcript ko. or ewan ko kung transcript nga mismo yung may kulang, basta in short, may kulang akong grade. grabeh nung panahong un gusto kong sugurin si mam arrieta eh. hindi inayos yung pagsusulat ng grades eh alam naman niyang importante un!! haha.. jowk lng. teacher pa rin un noh.


eh tapos before ko nga malaman na grade lang pala ang kulang ko, sobrang iniisip ko na baka bagsak ako. IBINAGSAK KO ANG UPCAT. kaya medyo kinundisyon ko na ang sarili ko na sa ATENEO na ko papasok. tutal doon, pasado naman ako. pero naisip ko, wait lang. mahal dun eh. hindi namin kaya.


pero cge, go pa rin ako.. nung pinamigay na ung malaking envelope na white na galing ateneo na naglalaman ng mga kung anu-anong bagay, papel, diyaryo, etc., xempre excited naman ako kea binuksan ko agad. tapos binasa-basa ko ung mga nilalaman. may letter from the Dean of John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM), etc. tapos meron dun yung invitation sa Open House nila. (so ano yun bagong bukas na subdivision?! model units open for viewing.. hahaha... ui jowk lng.) so xempre ako excited na naman. haha..


edi aun nga. pagdating namin ng parents ko sa venue (Escaler Hall), andami nang tao.. at nag-umpisa na. eh sa harap (as in sa pinaka-front row. pinaka na, front pa.) na lang may vacant seats.. ayaw ata nilang umupo dun eh. haha. kaya dun na lang kami ginuide at pinaupo.. so parang yehey. kitang kita namin yung screen at ang speaker na si Dean Rodolfo "Rudy" Ang of JGSOM. (tama ba, un nga ba name niya? haha. sori.) at in fairness ang saya niya maging speaker.. nakakatuwa. nung una nga, hindi ko akalain na dean siya eh.. late kasi kami so hindi namin naabutan ung intro sa kanya. tapos aun. kwento siya nang kwento. about ateneo, the students, the campus, basta everything about ateneo. even the rivalry between ateneo and la salle. hahahaha...


at dito ko nga rin narinig yung explanation niya about dun sa rankings. un oh, ung binasa mo kanina. *turo sa taas*


ganito kasi un.. edi ayan tapos na siya mag-explain and everything about ateneo. tapos na ung presentation. so nagtatanong na siya if there are any questions. tapos edi ung ibang parents naman, nagtanong. tapos hanggang sa naubos na yung mga ngtatanong. tapos parang may sinabi siya na sumthing like, wala bang magtatanong about dun sa lumabas na rankings etc. as in pa-jowk un ah. un bang parang iniintriga niya ung sarili niya. yung parang gusto niya i-bring up ung topic pero ayaw niyang sa kanya mismo manggaling. tapos edi may nagtanong nga na parent na aun nga daw, nabasa niya yung news about dun sa lumabas na ek ek na un.


tapos un na nga. sinagot na niya. todo explain. and xempre ako naman, nagpa-convince. hahahaha...




basta. basta. ang dami kong narealize, natutunan, at nalaman tungkol sa ateneo nung open house na yun. at sa tingin ko, yun nga yung as in nagpamahal sakin sa ateneo. dahil dun kaya gusto ko ng ateneo. dahil dun kaya kung papipiliin ako ng susunod na university sa UP sa rankings, ATENEO ang pipiliin ko.



oo, biased na kung biased. eh anong magagawa ko? ganun eh.



tapos isa pa palang nagustuhan ko sa ateneo, is diba under sila ng Jesuits? so wala lang. natutuwa lang ako. kasi dun sa kas1 namin, ung sa mga religious orders ba un. basta nung panahon ng kastila. ang description kasi ng prof namin sa mga Jesuits ay pinaka-disiplinado at pinaka-liberal. so natuwa naman ako dun. tsaka kasi diba si Rizal, mas gusto niya ang pamamalakad sa ateneo kesa sa UST? (pero wait, i have nothing against UST ah. example ko lang un. hahaha.. defensive.) kaya ayun. ateneo ako kung papipiliin sa mga private at catholic universities in the Philippines. (buti na lang state university ang UP. hahaha..)



basta.


mahal ko ang ATENEO. (pero syempre next to UP lang.)



kaya kapag may nang-away dyan, affected ako.





ano, try mo?