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Nate will be graduating in grade school this year. He is excited to enter junior high school.

Nissa and Obet would like him to enrol in UST too.  Nissa, Obet, Josef, Kev and I are all alumni. Last Saturday, they attended Nate’s orientation at the university. He will take his entrance exam on February 9.  Seeing their photos, I suddenly remember my nine years of stay there, from high school to college.

What I remember most during my student years? Plenty – the ice cream vendor near the Canteen of the Education building, College Inn in Espana, “cornik” and “mani” laced with hot and spicy oil in Dapitan, “banana q” at P. Noval, the knee-high deep waters during typhoons, the evening walks along Espana while waiting for a ride home with some classmates and friends, the early morning masses at the UST Chapel, the occasional walks at the quadrangle area with classmates, the fear of not passing the qualifying exams for Economics majors, (thank God I did it) the struggle of solving problems in our Statistics class, the research works and feasibility studies in our Economics subjects and a lot more. But what really made my stay in UST worthwhile was my three-year stint as a student librarian at the Humanities Section of the UST Main Library. If you ask me, I would say, those were the best years of my teenage life. It was there that I met all my wonderful friends, it was there that I learned the value of work, it was there that I got to know that there is a different world out there – the world of books!

I really hope Nate would enjoy studying in a centuries old, Pontifical,  Catholic  and Royal University  in the Philippines.

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