Quote Originally Posted by holdencaulfield View Post
napanood ko si che che lazaro may ininterview siyang mga homeless.
yung isang homeless na ininterview niya gradweyt ng never heard na eskwela dito sa manila. galing siya sa province, ang hirap raw ng buhay nila roon. binenta ng ama niyang magbubukid yung kalabaw, lupa. etc. makatapos lang siya ng siya naman makapagtaguyod sa pamilya niya.
magaling at masipag mag-aral, nakatapos. suma cumlaude ata?
naghanap ng naghanap ng trabaho. walang kumukuha sa kaniya. hanggang sa nag bagger boy sa uniwide. nagtrabaho sa mga grocery, malls sa manila.
hanggang sa nakita na lang niya sarili niyang lumalaboy.
nawalan na ng pagasa.

Getting slightly off topic: This story sounds iffy for me, like we're not getting the whole story. Baka naman medyo unusual yung kurso niya(.e.g not accounting, business admin, engg, etc.)? Baka me problema sa personality? i know this guy back in college who graduated with an engineering(?) course, pero consider this: he infected a whole computer lab with a virus to get revenge for getting his diskette infected; he knocked on our university's IT Center, asking where he can learn how to make a virus

Would you hire him? :D


i know a lot of people who only know basic arithmetic who are getting by, or at least are not being palaboy. If he's given up, then that's his choice; then his parent's sacrifice truly was in vain.


Getting slightly back to topic: me kwento dati yung isang professor sa amin on how he became known as a terror: a group of students from an "IT" school took up the Master's course at my university; they were all cocky and smart-assed, saying that "alam na namin yan" when the professor started discussing. The problem now is that, aside from being really smart, me pagka gago din yung professor. So they made the exams excruciatingly hard, and by the end of the term only a handful were left to finish the course. Their summa cum laude only got a passing score.


My point? It's not just the diploma, it's also matters where that diploma came from. It's good to be summa cum laude, but each and every college and university also has its summa cum laudes. And not all summa cum laudes are equal.