Making Different Friends: Putting Timidity Aside By Dario Jose Manuel Garrine ( Petroleum Engineering, 2nd Year/2nd Semester)

Making Different Friends: Putting Timidity Aside By  Dario Jose Manuel Garrine ( Petroleum Engineering, 2nd Year/2nd Semester) I recall talking to a good friend of mine few weeks ago about social life in UTP and suddenly hearing him saying: “whenever I find somebody whom I don’t know and that person greets me, I know immediately that he is a newcomer”. Sadly I had to agree with that statement to some degree. It seems that the first days...

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Painful Pleasure

Painful Pleasure Humans are fragile and tend to crack when we faced difficulties at times. It’s in our nature that we choose a path that strays away from pain. But pain isn't necessarily bad at all times. Pain is just a feeling that we, humans experience, both emotionally and physically. Truth be told, pain and pleasure have a very close relationship. If you want to taste the sweet nectar from the bees' hive, you must endure the sting from an...

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Make the Change

Make the Change Learning and curiosity has been the pulse of all humans that push us to understand our surroundings. However the meaning of education has been warped the past few decades. There is no denying that many of us, have an agenda about education that we may even call it a ‘personal conflict’. We all thoroughly understand that we have to ace grades to be on top and at the end secure a job for our future. But somehow many of us do...

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