How Atenean are you?

In your four years in Ateneo, did you…

(x) eat at Manang’s. - i miss manang's...

(x) learn the alma mater song. - masakit sa arms.

(x) get on the dean’s list.

( ) lie down and sleep on a bench along EDSA walk. - Well, they took out the benches towards the end of college, so...

( ) be a TNT. - a lotta crap i wasn't willing to bear before getting in.

(x) jog around the campus in the evening - i looooooooooove the ateneo campus! there's so much to do there. =p

( ) visit the art gallery

(x) know at least one xerox lady, manong, or technician by name. - ate mercy, the photocpier near the dollhouse.

(x) get a Jesuit for a teacher. - fr. giordano (theo of liberation)

( ) itch from higad bites - i was always careful to avoid the quad on windy days.

( ) have gotten an F in something. - nope, no F's and proud of it.

(x) have taken a crap in school - well, i stayed in eliazo for four years. i don't think NOT taking a crap in school would have been humanly possible.

(x) give a powerpoint presentation. - too many to count.

( ) study in the Caf Upstairs - i rarely went there.

(x) watch a T.A. play. - i even saw some that weren't required for class. they're pretty good.

(x) sit on the SEC ledge and watch the stars. - like i said, i love the ateneo campus. =)

(x) eat in Full House, Martha’s Kitchen, and Ken Afford. - and eyrie. i loved their chicken sisig, and everything else.

(x) sleep in the lib - yes, although i stayed in the dorm, i also slept in the lib sometimes to take a break from studying.

(x) visit Mr. San Andres - people got mad because of something i wrote, so i complained because the teacher who had my work published neither informed me nor obtained my consent.

(x) go to the chapel. - it's nice and peaceful there.

(x) have gotten a pebble stuck in your shoe/slippers in the middle of the quad.

( ) cut class with your block to watch a movie. - i was an angel. O=)

( ) sign up for those institutional (i.e. difficult but brilliant) teachers: Ferriols, Dacanay, David, Manacsa, Ang, Escaler, Arcilla, Totanes, and many others. - no, although not by choice. the management dept reg took so long by the time i finished, it was free for all, and all the good ones were taken.

(x) go to CERSA night - i DID live in the dorm, after all.

(x) have tried siomai rice. - yum!!!

(x) learn how to smoke. - i learned in college, but i didn't start smoking regularly til law school.

( ) fall in love. - i'm not sure...

(x) actually read the book you keep borrowing from the lib.

(x) play cards during your free time.

(x) dress in business attire.

(x) learn to stay awake for more than 24 hours straight. - i also learned to cram in college.

( ) have gotten side comments from ASSOC.

(x) take (and enjoy) Saturday classes. - most law and marketing subjects were weekday evening or saturday morning classes.

(x) go to your immersion. - napindan, taguig (urban poor).

(x) eat Food for Thought sandwiches.

(x) get a boyfriend/girlfriend.

(x) take time to read the vandalism in the CR doors.

(x) watch “Minsan Lang Sila Bata” and “Macho Dancer” for class.

(x) do a last minute paper. - i'm an expert crammer.

(x) have spent a lot for 1x1 ID pictures

(x) get exempted from final exams. - at one point, i wasn't informed that i was exempted until i submitted my bluebook. my teacher gave me an A instead of a B+ because I took the final. hehe!

(x) attend a college mass

(x) promise to quit smoking – promise lang naman eh

( ) play hide-and-seek in the mini-forest.

(x) know where the best restrooms are on campus

(x) join an org. - i joined. and that was it. hehe! i had my lovelife and dorm life to attend to. =p

(x) allow yourself to make mistakes - and god knows i made A LOT of them.

(x) take summer classes - all my summers were fully booked.

(x) admire the sacred heart statue in the evening

(x) make a video for a project.

( ) have a crush on a teacher.

(x) attend a Jesuit retreat - i was part of sir ranny's attempt at forming a dorm core spiritual group. =p

( ) have gotten a parking ticket - didn't, and still don't, have a car.

( ) come to school in your crappiest yet most comfy clothes - no naman...

(x) learn how to use the Bayantel pay phones

(x) participate in school activities.

( ) catch the Blue Babble Battalion tryouts

(x) date an Atenean. – yezzir.

(x) ride a tricycle on campus

(x) find a tambayan. - we shared the berch hallway with the berch boys (tantan et.al.)

(x) admire the marikina valley at night. - looks like a jewelry box from our balcony.

(x) go drinking along Katipunan – chicago, gills and fins, i-cue, loft, tapika, gilligan's...

( ) learn how to beg for a higher grade.

(x) use your cuts wisely. – i never maxed out my cuts. =)

( ) volunteer to be class beadle.

(x) had the worst lottery schedule for reg.

(x) admire the trees on campus.

(x) have forgotten about your free cut and gone to that class

(x) eat in the ISO canteen.

( ) be active in your org.

( ) have signed up on an ACP class just because the girl or guy u like signed up for it

(x) get as many app forms as you can during the job fair

(x) learn how to cram.

(x) sell tickets (or watch) an org-sponsored movie premiere - i think i got bullied into watching some MISA sponsored premiere.

( ) save money to Xerox all of your seatmate’s notes. - they photocopied MY notes. =p

(x) have accidentally seen a make-out session – yeah, they're everywhere.

(x) check out the Meron Lagoon and Lambingan Bridge - we used to walk around there a lot going to and from Starbucks at night.

( ) have dozed off in class in Bel right after a class in CTC/SOM/Comm. Not after a class in CTC/SOM/or Comm tho.

(x) learn how to work with groupmates from hell.

( ) perfect the art of parking on campus

( ) had a bad encounter with one of the guards on campus

(x) develop a love for sisig

(x) learn how to pronounce “AEGIS” properly.

( ) have used typing rooms at the library - no need for those.

( ) have reserved a classroom, AVR, etc. for a class or org function - i don't even know how to do that.

( ) have asked the library for an endorsement to research in other libraries

(x) have lost a perfectly functioning umbrella - someone stole my ateneo umbrella from the umbrella rack, so i stole someone else's. i figured it was appropriate. =p

( ) have used consultation hours properly – never did.

(x) Looked forward to lab breakage refund, in case you didn’t break any equipment - i don't think i ever told my dad we got refunds. =p

(x) visit the Guidance Office. - OAA scholars are required to interview with the guidance office once a year.

(x) visit the infirmary. - when tanya sprained her ankle because of chi.