AJ Jorge June 18th, 2008
UP naming mahal. Maligayang araw ng iyong sentinaryo. Sayang wala kami ni Pen dyan sa Pilipinas. Pihadong lalahok kami sa iyong pagdiriwang. Sobrang dami ng opportunities ang binigay mo sa amin. Dahil sa iyo, nagkakilala kami ni Pen, nakatapos ng undergraduate degree, nakapag-aral ng graduate courses, nakapagturo sa UP Math Department, nakakilala ng mga kaibigan at ngayon nakapangibang bayan. Maraming salamat sa yo at patuloy kang maglikha ng mga iskolar ng bayan.
penny March 8th, 2008
While bored to my wits, I went into yet another google frenzy and found this site. I found it so funny I just had to share it. It would probably be of interest to some UP graduates, especially those from Computer Science (CS).
It is a little website made by some sad computer science student in UP (he’s probably somewhere writing code to save the world now). In the website, the author (Alec, from what I gather in his pages) outlines his experiences in each of his academic courses in bullets. He documented what he learned (if any) from the course, his professor/teacher and what he/she was like, and other things he experienced in his classes. At one point he says in one CS subject “walang lab, pero ewan ko kung bakit natuto akong mag-program dito”.
Math teachers he mentions are Dr Pizana, Dr Roque, Dr Alejandro (now Kazanidis), Prof Adorio, Cherry Ramos and Ajay Jorge =)
AJ Jorge January 22nd, 2008
Got this from Noims, sagutan din namin ni Pen…
To commemorate our centennial year…
University of the Philippines
1. Student number?
95-08807/95-04697
2. College?
College of Science, Diliman/same
3. Ano ang course mo?
BS Mathematics, major in Operations Research. Nag graduate degree din ako kaso di ko natapos/same, umabot ng 1st yr PhD Math before I called it quits with UP
4. Did you shift majors/Courses or were you a kicked out of your College?
Muntik na. buti na lang hindi./no
5. Where did you take your entrance examination?
sa UP IS./UP Econ
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penny June 21st, 2007
Pics from Christchurch, NZ trip here. No people pictures. Just the sights. And some random shots of moi.
The conference was Evolution 2007. It was too big a group to get to know everyone, so I took it slow speaking with fellow postgraduates and a handful of professional academics. Biologists are an interesting brood, I have to say. Even more so the theoretical lot. It was particularly curious to meet Mark’s colleagues from his honours, postgrad and postdoc years. What I found quite funny was his Stanford peers saying how Mark’s academic lineage extends to as far back as Karl Friedrich Gauss… so that they were calling me their academic ‘niece’, ‘cousin’ since I was, they said Mark’s ‘daughter’.
[storytelling put to a stop... i've typed up really long narratives only to get them lost into internet oblivion... guess I wasn't destined to tell too much. maybe just a bit as we go...]
penny March 6th, 2007
Penny. In Sydney. For half a year. Unbelievable. I still have that newcomer feeling since this is after all the first time I ever encountered a beginning of session in an academic year, considering that I came past mid-session last year. Some fun facts that sort of elevates my situation from frikkin’ lost newbie to a seasoned second sessioner:
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