drama queen confessions

In my 3 years in UP Diliman, coming across someone who thinks their college is the best is common. Okay I won’t mention those students who have this TENDENCY of having this humongous UP Pride for I know my fellow UP peepz would know who those I am pertaining to.  Anyway, what is unnatural is for a professor to do so, to have such unprofessional attitude. Very glaring indeed, it does shows that equal treatment of students is sometimes unattainable for those whose mind is closed and has a high-and-mighty thinking. They would initially think that there are LOWER students that do not meet to their standards. I ask, to whose standards? Their standards? How would they know that THEIR standards is accurate or not? I came across to one person who belongs to these kind of people, and no courteous talk can break this person. Unbelievable but having the RIGHT education in the RIGHT school would not assure a person to have the RIGHT manners, and I am not talking about a mere student here. I just want to let off some steam because in my opinion it is very wrong to make such erroneous generalizations. I had already encountered some ‘discrimination’ as an AIT student when I was in Japan of all places (Can you believe meeting some UP people who are already working still having the mighty UP pride?! Astonishingly immature you say!), saying that Tourism as a course is insignificant and UP should stop admitting students for a Tourism course. To that person, the Philippine Tourism industry is a high potential growth area for economic success for our country, Philippines has the resources that are in need of proper management. This leads to having the PROPER education in Tourism for this industry to have sustainable growth. Who will manage the Tourism industry if they say the Tourism course is insignificant? Nurses? Lawyers? Computer programmers? None of those, because it is important to have the fundamental knowledge in this lucrative industry. Well, that’s what I told the man who bombarded me with those questions he thought as a joke, but for me this is no joking matter.

Subsequently, I encountered a quite known professor belonging to also an equally quite known college who has the same mighty air to which I will disclose both the name of the professor as well as the college. Saying that most of your tourism students cannot cope and do well in your subject, saying tourism students are not taking your subject seriously is not enough justification. A measure of a person is not through the grades that he/she makes - everyone knows that. Cliche as it may sound, but using grade as a basis to gauge if a person is excellent or not is quite unbelievable, we are not in a numerical measure. For that professor who cannot seem to understand the importance of a Tourism education: I cannot help if you think of us that way but all colleges are equal to their expected contributions to our country, education should not be about competition - especially an internally-embedded competition among colleges. What a laugh that the premier university of the Philippines has these kinds of individuals, very unprofessional if you ask me. I am very proud that I would be a soon-to-be graduate of AIT, and for those who belittles us… INGGIT LANG KAYO!! hehe..If Tourism is underrated as you say, why did the President of the Philippines in her 2006 SONA conveyed plans about Tourism development in the form of infrastructures? Those numerous Airport development that would ease transportation? Improving various roads? Think people, think. By the way, this is based on a real situation. Godspeed to the incoming graduates! Ganbatte ne! This ought to be a lesson for those who cannot stop underrating colleges. Damatte kudasai.

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