“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
– JOHN LENNON
There’s a couple of things a student should remember upon entering the University of the Philippines, and studying there. Many say that if it’s hard to enter UP (meaning, to pass the entrance exam), it’s even harder to get out of it (meaning, to graduate). But for the freshmen, who are still testing the waters, they are more anxious about surviving their first year as college students, as well as UP students.
If you’re a freshman in UP, fret not. Even if you feel lonely and scared because you’re facing the world alone, don’t lose hope. There are several ways to shake anxiety and loneliness out of your body.
Knowing your ABC’s
Just like Dora the Explorer, you should have a map of UP. Admit it or not, anyone who’s new to UP can get lost. It’s reeeeally big. Yous should take note of the assigned rooms for every subject. An ocular inspection is recommended, to know if you have to bring sweaters or jackets; to know if you have to bring extra money for jeepney fare; and to know what time will you start walking to go to your next class.
You’re lucky if you belong to a block. But if not, it will be harder to get to your next class since you do not have a person to accompany you in going from a class to another. So, it really is advisable if you have a map especially if you have no sense of direction and if you have not yet developed your cognitive map of UP. Walking, too, is advisable if the building of your next class is not that far–don’t waste the benefits of having many trees in your surroundings.
Smile and Say Hi!
Being introvert won’t do you good; be friendly and have some friends.. or just someone to talk to in each of your classes. Smiling will help you gain friends; it will also help you look better. Being friendly and approachable will help you whenever there’s a group work or an individual presentation in front of the class.. trust me.
But remember, do not hang out with friends in case you have things to do. It won’t be good if you get a failing grade just because you went to a mall instead of reviewing for an exam.
Party Hard, Study Harder
You passed the entrance exam of UP, or simply known as the UPCAT. And the reason behind the score you obtained in UPCAT is that you had studied hard for that exam. Do not change that habit of studying hard just because you’re already in college. It still feels good to have good grades just like when you were in high school.
First Things First
It’s not mandatory to join an organization, fraternity, or sorority. You may say that you want to have the sense of belonging, but joining in an org, frat, or sorority is not the solution to that. The application process is hassle, especially for you who is still adapting to your environment and your routine. The app process will take your time that should be for your academics. You’re still in your first year. You’re still in the midst of adaptation. Do not hurry things up. You will feel rewarded if you finally get a thing that you had patiently worked for.
Join the Block Booster
Block Booster is an annual trivia quiz show exclusively for freshmen offered by the Beta Epsilon Fraternity. The admission is free for engineering students and they will set a price for the non-engineering students who would also want to join the contest. Each group should have at least one member and all the groups will battle out for the cash prizes. Groups will be asked about anything and everything under the sun. Aside from the cash prizes, there are raffle prizes also to be given away during the event. It is really fun and it is worth trying for exercising your mind, exercising your PR skills, and getting freebies.
Following these tips can help you make your freshman year more refreshing. When you see the results of what you have done according to these tips, you’re gonna think studying in UP is not horrifying after all.
For you to learn on how to execute this trick, kindly read this http://www.chess.com/learn-how-to-play-chess if you want to know basics about chess 🙂
The game of chess is a game full of tricks. The tricks that a player executes should be beneficial for them, not for the opponent. Chess can teach people things that can’t be learned from a book–concentration, thoroughness, focus, and a lot more. But, how could you win a chess game? Well, let me put it this way.. A drunk doesn’t try to stagger; a drunk tries to walk a straight line. You may wonder, what does this have to do with winning a game–what’s the point? The point is that, Chess players don’t try to win; they try to play chess. And playing chess includes using a lot of tricks.
Tricks in Chess are simply just combinations of moves that a player makes in order to have an improvement of the player’s position. Every move a player makes should have an objective. Otherwise, it will be nothing but a blunder–a very bad move. There’s a finite number of tricks in the game, but there’s an infinite number of ways on how to execute them with some modifications. The execution of the tricks is very crucial for a player. What if the opponent’s already got an idea about the tricks that a player is doing? In a game of masters, where both the players already know about the tricks that each of them might execute, it’s just a matter of time. One must execute a trick that requires fewer steps than the other. But as a beginner, tricks can still fool me. Even though the board is visible to both of the players, one can still execute a trick. One of the popular tricks is the Scholar’s mate.
The Scholar’s mate is a famous four-move checkmate. White makes the first move, as always. Suppose you’re playing white. First, move your Pawn in front of your King two squares forward (e4). You can never be sure of what will your opponent move so let’s just assume of your opponent’s moves. Suppose your opponent moves his King’s Pawn in front of your Pawn (e5). After that, you move your white Bishop (Bishop on a white square) three squares diagonally, to your left (Bb5). Assume your opponent’s next move is moving his black Bishop (Bishop on a black square) three squares diagonally, to his right; or just placing the black Bishop in front of your white Bishop. Then, move your Queen four squares diagonally, to your right (Qh5). Your opponent moves his Knight to the only square where he can threaten your Queen (Nf6). Lastly, capture the pawn that is originally in front of your opponent’s black Bishop with your Queen (Qxf3). And, voila! Your opponent is already checkmate!
When an idea or belief is not based upon scientific explanations, it is called superstition. Superstition is the belief that certain practices or events can bring good or bad luck to the people involved. People tend to interpret events or things that are hard to explain by making superstitions. As the time goes by, generations after generations adopted this practice.
Believing in superstitions gives people a sense of security and confidence. The reason why people believe in superstitions is that, people wants assurance, people wants to play safe. They don’t want that later on, they will regret not believing in such. They think that if something may help them, it may do just that. Some will say that people who believe in superstitions are the ones who are weak-minded or illiterate, and that educated minds are never swayed by them. But come to think of it, why do the students of the University of the Philippines believe in superstitions? The fact that this university is said to be the premier institution of higher learning makes it ironic.
There are three superstitions in UP Diliman that I know of. First and foremost, they believe that people who has a picture of themselves with the Oblation statue at the end of the University Avenue — intentional or not — won’t be able to graduate on time. Many students claim that it is true based on their own experience, and on the others’ experiences as well.
Second, students and the university staff believe that every four in the afternoon, a figure would ascend at the top of the Benitez Hall and it will jump off the building until it would suddenly vanish into thin air just before it hits the ground.
Lastly, they believe that no one must walk in the Beta Epsilon Way at night. Otherwise, they will see and experience things that is beyond their imaginations.
The beliefs that these students engage in are just fine and not pathological — nobody will be hurt by believing in these superstitions, physically. Intelligence seems to have little relevance with the people’s subscription in superstitions. Believing in them is just a matter of people’s desperation to have assurance.
I think people should redefine plagiarism. For me, plagiarism is a measurement for one’s pride. But, how to know if you are already plagiarizing? How to accuse people who had plagiarized your work? I think, nobody can make an organized system regarding plagiarism. Some cases in plagiarism is just like telling a legend, singing a nursery rhyme, and delivering a pick-up line. Your parents most likely hadn’t known who first told the “Alamat ng Saging” when they narrated it to you. Your nursery teachers probably hadn’t known who composed “ABAKADA” when they taught it to you. You surely have a friend in Facebook that had posted a pick-up line, a joke, or a quote and didn’t acknowledge where they got it from. Were they accused of plagiarism?
For me, plagiarism is a matter of popularity. It doesn’t matter if you have lots of money and who said it first. It’s about who knew you said it. What if you’re a maid of Kris Aquino and there’s just ten people who knows you exist. You had said something sensible and Kris used it in her TV show but didn’t quote you. Can you accuse Kris of plagiarism? You can also relate plagiarism to the case of Antonio Meucci. It was reported that US claims that Antonio Meucci is the inventor of the telephone rather than Alexander Graham Bell. The article said that Meucci hadn’t paid the $250 needed for a definitive patent for his “talking telegraph”, which is the telephone, because he couldn’t afford it so he filed a one-year renewable notice of an impending patent. And three years had passed, he hadn’t renewed it due to financial problems. Meucci sent a model and the technical details to the Western Union telegraph company but failed to have a meeting with the executives of the company. He asked for the materials he had sent to be returned but they told him that they had lost them. And Graham Bell filed a patent for telephone two years after and became a celebrity because of the claim he invented telephone. [Carroll, R. (2002). Bell did not invent telephone, US rules. Retrieved from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews%5D
This week ended on a negative note for Android in general and Samsung in particular. In the Apple(s aapl) v. Samsung case involving alleged patent infringement, the jury found heavily in favor of Apple, with the preliminary amount of damages totalling $1.05 billion. Since the jury found that Samsung willfully infringed, the court could increase the damages by triple. And Apple is seeking an injunction on the wide range of smartphones and tablets that were found to infringe Apple’s patents.
As widespread as an injunction could be against Samsung products, the case could affect Google’s Android(s goog) platform in general. Why? Because of the patents themselves that Samsung were found to infringe upon; specifically, these touchscreen navigation actions: the “rubber banding” or bounce-back scrolling functionality, pinch-to-zoom, and tap-to-zoom.
I’ll be looking into the potential implications on this, but my early take is that Samsung won’t be the only handset…
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A lot of ink has been spilled over what some people believe is an inherent flaw in energy efficiency technology. But does the so-called energy efficiency rebound effect, also called Jevons Paradox, present a major fire or is it just blowing smoke?
Put simply, here’s how one version of the argument goes: Forecasts of savings from energy efficiency measures are overblown, because when prices go down and people start buying more efficient appliances — like air conditioners or refrigerators — they will choose devices with larger capacities and other options that will drive total consumption up. It’s a fairly simple problem to define, but notoriously complex to grasp, and could have nontrivial conclusions.
If powerful enough, the energy rebound effect could hamper an important trend in industrial, consumer and commercial energy efficiency. Between increased government mandates for energy efficiency measures and the promise of significant energy savings from energy…
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Eight Days A Week. 