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Jasper Powell “Japê” S. Esguerra graduated summa cum laude and was the class valedictorian of the UP Diliman College of Engineering in 2013. This piece comes from the graduation speech he delivered .
First day of classes! :)
Worth sharing. :)
I super love our ChE 134 instructor!
This was the note attached to the e-mail from our instructor informing us about our final grades in one of our major subjects this sem.
This was his first time to teach a chemical engineering class (he just graduated last April) and I could say he’s one of the best instructors I’ve had. He discusses the lessons with enthusiasm and really tries to emphasize the important parts. And he really makes an effort to capture the attention of the class; he’s actually entertaining most of the time.
To you sir, thank you for a very wonderful semester. Thank you for inspiring us to be the best chemical engineers :)
Thank you for spending the entire semester with me. I hope that after this sem, I have somehow inspired you more to continue and finish Chemical Engineering. The country is in dire need of engineers who could provide long-term solutions to its present problems, and I hope that in a few years, you will become one of them (I, too, will become one this November, hopefully). For those of you who are still having doubts about ChE, I hope I made ChE 134 as enjoyable and valuable as possible. More than that, I hope I have instilled in you the sense of teamwork. Few students realize that our own curriculum emphasizes the importance of working in teams (e.g. in your lab, design, and research courses). Learn to extend help, and ask for help. Study well, work hard, and never give up. Most of all, enjoy your college lives.
I pray that God will guide you in whatever choices you will make in the future. Thank you for making my first semester of teaching very fulfilling and rewarding.
See you around,
Bemboy
Peg for creative shot. Grad pic shoot tomorrow!
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I’m currently working as a student assistant in the Engineering Library I. The pay is minimal: we’ll be paid 30 pesos per hour of duty. I’m stationed at the Circulation and Reserve Desk where the transactions for borrowing and returning books and paying fees for overdue books occur. I already got the hang of all the tasks in this station. Sometimes, I feel like I’m performing better compared to the regular staff here. Hahaha, just kidding. :)
The maximum number of hours per month is 120 hours, but I’ve accumulated 145 hours for the month of July! Thanks to our internal arrangements, I could earn extra cash. I could say I’m the top earner among the student assistants assigned to this library. Yey to excellence! Thanks also to this SA stint, now I have my own ATM account.
I’ll be using most of my earnings to pay for outstanding debts that I owe to several people. I still have no plans yet for the rest of my salary. Maybe buy a flash drive or something.
I’m enjoying my work so far. I hope I could still keep this up until the end of the semester. :)
UP ARISE is proud to announce the list of promising student-leaders accepted to be part of ASCEND 2012! Congratulations and good luck!
ASCEND is a leadership immersion program with seminars and workshops geared towards producing quality principled leaders for the nation. Now on its second year, ASCEND is a university-wide event which caters to students coming from different colleges in UP Diliman. The whole program will run for one semester.
For more updates on ASCEND 2012, visit http://www.facebook.com/ascend2012.
ASCEND 2012 is an initiative of UP Alliance for Responsive Involvement and Student Empowerment (ARISE), a leadership socio-civic organization based in the UP College of Engineering.
Lantern Parade 2011 at the Quezon Hall.
Photo taken by our super cool prof in SocSci II, Sir Jan Robert Go. :)
