The "NOT GOOD" side of a UPian

When I entered UP High School, I was excited and at the same time nervous. I don’t know what to expect, except maybe that I would enjoy my new second home. I see new faces and meet new people, live in a new environment. I know for a fact that as a UPian, people have high expectations on me. As I lengthened my stay in this university, I see the other side of a UPian. And honestly speaking, I hate some of them.

As a sophomore, I know I haven’t experienced a lot, not like the ones older than I am. But as early as it seems, I have seen what a UPian is. Other traits are not obviously the ideal ones.

First, most of us, (or not?) even me, do our home works in school and actually copy from each other. We arrive at school, ask people what the assignments are and then, say “Pakupyaha ko bi!” (“Let me copy!”). I guess it happens to all schools but who would ever thought that a UP student would too, right?

Also, students neglect to clean. One trait that I myself don’t like. I don’t like for a fact that we don’t have the initiative to look around and realize that the surroundings don’t look good because of the trashes scattered around by no other than ourselves. Sometimes, no matter how I or other people shout at other people to clean their places and pick up trashes, no one or maybe some only would. Also, there are times that when I ask people to throw the trashes, they don’t do it. It really showed that we really cleaned when the students from St. John’s in Guam went to school for an activity. See? I hope we can really change and improve ourselves.

The one trait that I hate about a UPian is when one borrows a thing or a possession, other students don’t give it back. They borrow it, then they don’t put it back to where they got it from. I just find my things sometimes or I may say most of the time not from the borrower’s hands or from someplace. I really hate it. I don’t like that I would be the one searching for my things.

Also, others own things they don’t actually own. In short, steal. I experienced it and I know lots of people who did to. Only, those hat was stolen from me were not money, but they are projects and requirements needed for me to pass my subjects. My project in Hometech was stolen once when I was in my freshmen year and once too, this year. Then, recently, my notebook in my Health subject was lost. But it's quite impossible to be lost since my classmates who I passed my notebook with had their notebooks returned. I haven't found it again.

See? These are not the ideal traits of a UP student. We, students of such university should know better. Actually, we should be better. Better than these.