USEP top 5 :)

The University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP), a state university in Davao City, is one of the 15 Philippine universities that made it to the 2011 list of top Asian universities done by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

In the recent QS rankings released on its official website, USeP is one of the Asian universities that occupied the 201+ ranking. The University ranks top five (5) among the 15 Philippine universities that made it to the list. The Philippine schools that occupied the top four (4) slots are the University of the Philippines; Ateneo de Manila University; De La Salle University; and University of Santo Tomas.

The USeP administration, faculty, staff, and students hail this achievement of the University. Being one among the top Asian universities is already an accomplishment for USeP especially with the number of higher educational institutions in Asia. In the Philippines alone, there are already more than 2,000 universities and colleges. It is also noteworthy that USeP is the only state university (outside of the UP system) and the only school from Mindanao that made it to the top five (5) best schools in the country per QS ranking score.

QS is the world’s leading network for top careers and education. It launched the World University Rankings in 2004, in cooperation with the Times Higher Education Supplement. Among the criteria on which rankings are produced include peer review; recruiter review; international faculty ratio; international student ratio; student-faculty ratio; and citations per faculty. (USeP PIO)

The Place where I came from

Every one of us has its own place where we came from, a place where we are free to do things that we wanted to do, a place where we belong. A place that molds up of who we are today and what will be in the future. A place where we came from will always be the secret witness of every failure and success we go through our life. In our fast faced world most of us now know what being an outcast feels like. There has been come sometime in all of our lives when we didn’t fit in some place where we should have been welcomed.

I never considered the place I came from to be near as important as the place I was headed for. Now, as college approaches so quickly, I can see how wrong I was, how defined I am by the environment that circumstances or conditions that surrounds me. I am from a beautiful, contradictory world. The two sides of my derivation are so often considered incompatible; I love being the link between them. There is the original side, the side of tradition and fundamentals, a wonderful combination of love for the past and need for human contact. The other side is a quick, electric surge to the future. It is where discovery and logic are tools waged to create understanding. I reside at the nexus of these two intersecting planes.

I was born and raised here in this small town as we called it little land in northern Mindanao Davao Del Norte. . Where the province of Lanao was divided into Lanao Del Norte, with its predominant Christian and muslim population. The people here are mostly Maranao that’s why the term Lanao is derived from the Maranao word “Ranao” meaning a body of water. Even though our family is Christian we still like as a muslim because the type of our living. I have always been able to look up and see those mountains run across the horizon every morning. This is a slow, gorgeous, green world. This land is riddled with comfort and people's faces are built with courtesy which people possess their own culture which makes them quite unique. I call it as “Land of Beauty and Bounty,” We live in a life of simplicity where rice, corn, coconut is our only way of living. Their language, social system, traditions, religion and other features are factors that make Lanao peculiar and distinct from other Philippine provinces. It is an amazing place, and I am particularly fond of my place in it. This is the place will always be a part of being me.

My time is mainly appropriated between school and church. And, with as much time as I spend there, my church is definitely worth a mention. The other half of my world is an intellectual passion that deals for special children, dealing with them made me felt complete because it’s really fulfilling on my part to teach them not only by hand but also by heart. I have an incredible special teacher who has been dictating those elegant ideas to me for over a year, and I can say she is an enormous driving force for my entrance into the field of education. I admire her without end.

I have born in me a need for coherency, reason, and understanding, and whether it is understanding the people around me in fellowship or reasoning through abstractions on a chalkboard, I am driven for insight, for conception, for knowledge." The environment, which I consider to be the people around me, such as my family and friends, inspired me to become the person I am today, someone who wants a successful future. I grew up around people who believed that I had a potential to be better, which made want to be better as a person. But my family and friends believed the best way to achieve my goals and dreams.

My world, my family shaped me into who I am and will become, they also shaped my dreams because they inspired and encouraged me to lead a better life than they or their parents did. My parents' method of raising me taught me to work hard to achieve good things in life and be successful. Without them I don't think I would be the same person I am today, I have learned a lot about life and the importance of education from them. They shaped me into a hardworking, kind, caring person, who will do anything for my future and help my family. I will continue on pursuing my dreams and following my career path that will lead me to a better life.

Right now I’m in a place where I can make new friends, feel welcome somewhere, and feel like I have somewhere I belong.

Manikang de Susi

malinaw pa ang aking mga mata

nakikita ko ang kanilang ginagawa

matalas pa ang aking mga tenga

naririnig ko ang bawat yabag nila

alam ko ano ang tama

batid kong akoy mali

hindi ko naranasang magwagi

akoy ipinanganak ng sawi

alam ko kung ano ang gusto ko

gusto kong maging malaya

ngunit sa kulungang di mawasak

akoy hindi nakawala

kung anong gusto nila

ay siya ring kapalaran ko

kung wala sila, wala ako sa mundo

sa aking tigang na balat

ang hangi'y dumadampi

wala na akong magawa

ako'y manikang de susi

True Essence of a Filipino

Have you ever asked yourself “What is the essence of being Filipino?” or what other qualities define the essence of being a Filipino? In my case as a second year student and as a true blooded Filipino I have my own views about this.

We Filipinos have unique culture that will surely love by other people and the beautiful traits that we Filipinos have. Every early Monday morning during flag ceremony I really felt honor every time I sing the national anthem Lupang Hinirang with pride. Very evident to our own culture, Filipinos have huge faith to God and have sense of really belonging into the unit called family. Even if a son /daughter already had a family still sticks to their parents. We are definitely family-loving people. Sharing our traditional ways of respecting older people by saying “po – opo” is still an apart of our lives even we live now in a fast paced modernize country.

The good thing about us Filipinos is we still smile in this time of recession. Were like bamboos that are pliant but strong and sturdy. We are survivors and if we were to be put in such places, it’s easy for us to adapt! If we are facing different challenges to our lives but we still find time to release all the stress and have the fun. I hope that the essence of being a Filipino is not centered on what dialect is being spoken, because it is not based on that.

True indeed the essence of being a Filipino is when you finally realize that every Filipino is worth dying for and accepting your roots and being proud you are a Filipino --- I am proud to be Filipino. I feel blessed because I am part of this country. Wherever we go, whatever happens the Filipino essence is still in us!MABUHAY

A teacher ,certified -- Molders of dream

A teacher affects eternity. No one can tell where his influence stops.

True indeed who among you here can still remember your first grade school teacher? See even after ten years we can still recall our teacher that shape us to be who we are today. That, alone can justify the quote i have stated a while ago.

To be a teacher is always been one of the major things i want to pursue in my life. Teaching the students not just within the scope of any reference books, but the knowledge, the lesson that i can inject in their skills. The science of life regarding to reality of humanity, the roles and responsibilities of being a student, a citizen, and being a living proof of how vicarious learning is.

Being a teacher is not just a teacher-student relationship that you can see inside the classroom, the school in the institution, but it also deals with the society, and the community, and your role as an educator in the entire living minds.
To be a teacher, is also being a mother, a mentor, an adviser, a friend which makes it broader in the exposure to the real world. To teach is to share, to share has to be reliable, to reliable means to have to clean enough to be seen by the entire world, to be seen it gives you a bigger responsibility. Responsibility means a greater task that a single human should carry within its entire journey.

Different kind of approaches, strategies, activities, and plans should be developed to accommodate different kind of learners, from the fast learners to the slower ones. These things should be applied not just within the school but in the community, in the society as well.
To make living easier to the entire humanity each in every should give its participation to make every thing balance, within ourselves, to a biotic that is controlled by the biotic ones.

To be a teacher is much greater task without its essential elements lending its hands to be connected within its origin. There has to waves so that it can reach enough to make all things under the hierarchy.

In teaching you never really stop learning,, i believe, this is especially true if you seek opportunities for professional development by presenting at conferences or doing action research. Doing these activities is what gives a teacher experience.

Teaching comes with what we call learning, if there is a teacher there should be the one whom are learning , and it there comes again another teaching. It continues as a cycle because like water, it is essential to continue life's worth.
Let everyone continue learning, so that life rides with, the flew and continues as well. Let us not put learning and education into limit make discovery constant and fast as the speed of light.
The beauty of teaching is we have an option of regenerating and reinventing ourselves to do thing better. This makes us gain experience and evolve.

Teaching is not a profession but a passion. Teaching is the only profession that teaches professional. There will be no president Simeoun benign Aquino 111 if there's no teacher that mold him. This field of profession gives a bright future to every individual. This field of specialization gives me an assurance that im on the right track. Indeed being a teacher is one of the most noble profession and rewarding.

A teacher - a hero, certified “Molders Of Dream”.

Hero of the Past, Hero of Today and Hero of Tomorrow

Men were acknowledging as Filipino heroes, more so today, that every individual who become so popular or the main character in any particular event is given to the title “hero”. It’s ambiguous really what constitutes to being a hero? Many people wonder what is hero and how their versions of one affects the society, but what does being a hero mean?

A hero means a prominent or central personage taking an admirable part in any remarkable action or event; a person of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering. A man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities, and a man honored after death by public worship because of exceptional service to mankind. But for children their heroes might be batman, superman, or wonder woman. In single way, children opted to give gratitude for their heroes by imitating them but the way they define real heroes change from a fantasy to reality as they grow older.

Despite everything that had happened in the past, little stories about all the effort our heroes have made. One of our heroes in the past is the King of Mactan Island, Ferdinand Magellan, a Spaniard who "discovered" the Philippines, along with 48 soldiers, met Lapu-Lapu in Mactan Island for a battle. During the battle, Magellan and 15 of his men were killed. For 54 years thereafter, no Spaniard set foot in the Philippine soil. The second is Dr. Jose Protacio Mercado Rizal Alonso y Realonda our national hero, he was symbolized reform, meaning, making changes in social or political institutions in order to improve it. He bring about change so that they no longer behave in an immoral, criminal, or self-destructive manner. The next is Andres Bonifacio known as the "Great Plebian." stood for revolution, he is the founder the Katipunan, a secret organization aimed to overthrow Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines. Lastly the man who stood over his enemy and fought for democracy Benigno ‘Ninoy’ S. Aquino Jr. the man who changed the way I look at the Philippines and the Filipino people. The greatest President the Philippines never had. The same man who searched for his way towards death and welcomed it with open arms. They are one of our national heroes who serve our country and made a sacrifice just for our good.

Filipinos expectations of public figures are different now that it was a more than years ago. In today's modern times a several heroes have come to change the world. There are a lot of potential heroes today. Heroes can range from any ages its either teenager or an adult, and any gender, as long as they contribute to their surroundings somehow, modestly, to help those in need in danger or personally. Our heroes today are missionaries, soldiers, especially teachers – they give contributions to our children's future and to our country. They helped shape our children and our nation, they too are our heroes they chose to be ordinary yet they serve their purpose well.

The hero of tomorrow are the youth we are a potent ingredient to the nation's progress, the key factors for the Filipino to progress is for the people, especially the youth to has the virtues of discipline, perseverance, and vision. The Youth as bonfire of hope, youth has the capability to replenish the country's depleting hope young heroes of tomorrow has a geared in settling the disputes of the nation for a brighter future.

To be a hero must have criteria it must be composed of standards: first hero must be the extent of a person’s sacrifices for the welfare of the country. Second, the motive and methods employed in the attainment of the ideal (was his ideal purely for the welfare of the country and without any taint of self-interested motives, most of all the method of attainment should be morally valid). The third is the moral character of the person concerned (the person should not have any immorality issue that affected his ideal).The fourth is, heroes are those who contribute to the quality of life and destiny of a nation. The next, a hero thinks of the future, especially the future generations, his concern for the future generations must be seen in his decisions and ideals). Lastly, the choice of a hero involves not only the recounting of an episode or events in history, but of the entire process that made this particular person a hero.

I hope that the criteria for national heroes will not only be checked against the historical figures but also with the politicians to whom we will entrust the power to govern our country.

Indeed to be a hero is someone who knows what courage, sharing and loving is all about. A true hero knows how to share his resources and even ready to risk his life for the benefit of humankind. It doesn’t need a person to be a real genius, what makes a real hero is his sense of dedication without expecting any in return.