Necessary CHANGE


Plants and animals survive in nature due to one ability and that is adaptation.
Blending in with nature, and the numerous amount of changes that accompany it, is what is keeping us from not succumbing to death.

With this in mind, I now present my case...

I have been with the UP MSS for 3 years as an undergrad and barely 2 years into my graduate program and I have seen slight changes. Yes, only slight changes. And obviously a major constituent of that are the members which come and go as the years go by. Members that have been evolving from lazy ass bitches like ours to them geeks and gleeks right now.

What the hell is wrong with getting academically upright? Well, strictly speaking there should be none. But that is if you are no member of the organization (which I'd like to remind you, is still pegging on those promises that you once swore upon yourselves before getting into this goddamn mess of an organization). And, unfortunately, you are.

See me through this my friends, colleagues and more importantly ORGmates, there should be some sense of balance between being a member of the org and a scholar of UP. Being a member gives you the responsibility to promote the org. Promote not just for membership's sake, but for prestige (if i may use that term). Why prestige? Simply because our organization has been producing a serious number, well actually the bulk, of the laudes that our department are proud of bragging. Moreover, our members have been constantly passing the Board exams for MetE and that's a big deal since THEY have been producing take two's!

Having known this, why are we not taking pride in what we have? Have we been recruiting just for membership's sake so as to extend our org's life? Case in point, no org shall survive with no members. But hey should we be desperate to the point that we should copy THEM and ask our alumni, who are faculty members, to give +.25 to whoever applies for us?

What to do then? Need I say CHANGE? Not just some petty change but an overhaul of our system, more so our culture.

I guess we badly need to improve our recruitment style so as to easily encourage unaffiliated students of our department to become one with our family. We need to put strategies which would enable us to counter, positively, the desperate measure of our rival org. Strategies like bringing back the study sessions of the former EdRest (i guess this flourished back in JP Agcamaran's time) and social nights like bowling, billiards, and videoke (pwede na rin inom basta hindi sagasa sa studies). We also need to determine who our alumni are and try to communicate with them for possible professional hook-ups. In short, we need to PACKAGE and MARKET ourselves in such a way that we are no longer ALTERNATIVES but rather, we should be seen as STIFF COMPETITION.

But that does not stop there. Recruitment is just the start, the real problem comes right after. How the hell are we going to maintain that fire that once was there when we were just applying (this may not be necessarily applicable to all members)? How are we going to make our members stay committed to their promises?

Legally speaking, now (i think), verbal agreements are of weight or substance and could be used as evidence for breach of contract. Now now, we're not yet at that point and we should not be tinkering about that gay ass move. I think what we need is some sense of pride in each of ourselves. Some sense of professionalism. Some sense of love. Some sense of passion. We need some sense of urgency that is deep rooted to the very core of our organization which is to promote oneness and camaraderie. With this in mind, we should and we could not go blaming THEM for our own shortcomings (although it is easy to see there faults kasi.. sarap pa naman manlait).


I hope this short message reaches you deep down to your core and that it would start something positive for us and for our UP MSS family.

ONE LOVE <3