UST

* photo courtesy of Wikipedia

It's rainy season again, and we just heard of several flooding related anecdotes from the boys studying in the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, which is the Catholic University of the Philippines. My two nephews are currently enrolled there--Mikhail is taking up Architecture, while Miguelito would like to be a teacher, and is working on his Education degree. Located along Espana St. in the Sampaloc area, it is the oldest university in Asia (established in 1611), and probably has one of the most awe-inspiring building facades among the local universities (see picture above).  Many years ago, both Gwammy (Liberal Arts) and my late Uncle Benigno (Medicine) studied there.  Quality education with a solid Catholic background.  My recollection of UST?  I had to conduct an experiment for a Psychology class sometime in 1980, and my classmate Tina and I spent a couple of days around the UST campus asking random students for assistance in breaking up a P20 bill into loose change.  We found out that women help either men and women 50% of the time, and men helped men 50% of the time, but men helped women 90% of the time.  Hehe, the joys of being a student--carefree chitchat with random strangers was already part of studying!  And as Miguelito says, the joy of being a student in UST includes having classes called off when a heavy downpour occurs!