Side Comment on Shirt Violence
As my experience, some engg students (not all of them) dirty dig the social sciences and my discipline. They say social sciences are too impractical, easy, uno-able, commonsensical and just a form of wordplay-to-make-sense discipline. As if they could do the things that we do. Well I could not blame them if they are being made to believe they are the paramount of all discipline just because they can earn higher wages. There are explanations why ‘uno ka nga, engg ka ba?’ shirts swarm the campus. Those shirts don’t intend to establish an identity of excellence but instead impose symbolic violence on non-engg students. These kids might not be aware of that and most of the times they are not careful to prejudicepeople.
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I personally find that shirt...well, funny. But if some Eng'g students really do look down on SSP courses, damn! I happen to like social sciences. Isa pa, di sukatan ng success ang pera. Gawd.
"so what kung uno ka? engg ka ba?"
rather than raising your fists in dissent, shouldn't you be laughing at us because in deeper thoughts, by wearing this shirt, we - engg people - concede the fact that we actually cannot achieve an uno?
second point russo: you study the behavior of human beings - how they react, how they think, the defense mechanisms they craft. engg students are tired and sick of listening to discussions praising your theories as practical ones. you should understand that some, if not most, engg students do not understand logic. (hehe) they cannot find any logical argument to attack this issue. so what better way than by Ad Hominem?
and nakay insasabi ninda na social science is just a "wordplay-to-make-sense discipline"? for the very simple reason that they are not capable of playing with words. i mean it.
seriously, you should take pity on us - the cursed engineering people who are bound to make sense out of flying objects that fall afterwards, the cursed people who are dedicated to spending their lives discovering things that are better off undiscovered.
we all deal with two realities.
our perception of reality looks complicated but is actually ridiculuosly simple. we believe that something does not exist unless it is tangible. we believe that something is not real unless it exists in the physical world. and we assume that there is a "physical world". our reality is a reality resting on big IFs. our reality is a reality based on assumptions. and one more thing: we haven't considered the POSSIBiLITY that everything we see and observe are just figments of our imagination.
you have a different view on reality. maybe it is even better to say that you have different views on reality. you may believe that something exists even if it is imagined. you may believe that something exists even if it onbly exists in the mind. and you may believe that the mind is non-existent. your perception of reality is more complicated, more beautiful and the theories you make out of these perceptions are overflowing and unending. kung kuarta man lang, kami ang lugi. because someday, we will have nothing else to study. kamu, wara katapusan.
you are the real thinkers.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
sadly, i am one of the people who were programmed to dismantle beauty to find truth even if the truth i find is not beautiful.
well, it seems that there is a dissent among the masses of students in our school. Can we still say that an uno in another college is still an equivalent to another? The angas shirts proliferating the campus right now (i think) is a product of a bored and unsatisfied individual. And another point is that these shirts are evident in other colleges as well in other UP campuses. These shirts raises issues that, sadly, are not conforming to the goals of the premiere university of our country, which is academic excellence and service to the nation. I think that , instead of uniting us students in raising the bar higher in order for us to achieve greater things, this divides the student body.
But in light of another argument, it shows that there is no standard quality of education in the university. They might say that it is easier to get a high grade in another college than another but that should not be the case. All of us iskolars ng bayan should not suffer the lack of discipline and the proper methods our teachers practice. As an educ major, i firmly believe that it is never enough that a teacher has gained mastery of the content of what he is teaching. An indelible prerequisite is that our teachers must know and practice the appropriate methods for their courses. Angas shirts, in the end, is not a commentary on the abilty of our fellow scholars but a gleaming reminder to our professors that being the best in their field is not enough to merit them the position of molding the minds of the future leaders of our country. They still need to learn how to teach us.
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