UP Diliman Class of 2007 has 8 top honors

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UP Diliman Class of 2007 has 8 top honors
http://www.upd.edu.ph/%7Eupdinfo/Pag...7/summa07.html


(UP Diliman Information Office)--Eight UP Diliman (UPD) candidates for graduation will receive the highest academic honors of summa cum laude at the 96th General Commencement Exercises to be held on Sunday, April 22, at 3 p.m.

The summa cum laude is conferred to a graduate with a general weighted average (GWA) of 1.20.

Mikaela Irene D. Fudolig, BS Physics with a GWA of 1.099, will lead the top honors. She will also deliver the valedictory address on behalf of the graduating class.

Only 16 years old, Fudolig is the youngest student to be graduated by the University in the recent years and one of only two admitted to UPD without a high school diploma and without taking the UP College Admission Test.

She was only 11 years old and a sophomore at the Quezon City Science High School when she was granted permission to enroll at UPD as a non-degree student, having volunteered for a prototype Early College Placement Program the UPD College of Education was spearheading. After earning remarkable grades for an academic year, the Department of Education (DepEd) endorsed her admission to UPD, which was approved by the UP Board of Regents on May 30, 2003.

Seven other candidates for graduation will share the highest honors. They are: Ariel C. Lopéz, BA History (1.107); Deniece S. Yusun, BS Architecture (1.13); Hannah Hazel A. Morales, BS Chemistry (1.181); Lorraine Joyce N. Yu, BS Architecture (1.183); Ma. Lourena M. Mangaban, BA Philosophy (1.187); Magdalene Y. Lim, BS Business Administration (1.187); and Ivan Chester G. Canoy, BS Biology (1.194).

Fudolig and Canoy received the Gawad Chanselor para sa Natatanging Mag-aaral in 2007, the University’s highest recognition for academic excellence.

In addition to the top honors, UPD produced 133 magna cum laude graduates and 638 cum laude. The magna cum laude is conferred to a graduate with a GWA of 1.45 and the cum laude for a GWA of 1.75.

Some 3000 candidates for graduation will receive their academic degrees at the program.

Traffic within the vicinity of the Academic Oval will be rerouted for the event starting at 1 p.m. on April 22.


Meet the Summas of Diliman :

http://www.upd.edu.ph/%7Eupdinfo/Pag...2007/index.htm

[Dacs]

Grabe di ata tao yung Fudolig

[2002-17545]

Magaling yung si Mikki Fudolig, friend ko yun.
Magaling din si Magdalene Lim, batchmate ko and super close friend.
=D

[math_techie]

Walang BS Math na summa???

Fudolig is really in a class of her own. Ilang subject kaya ang hindi niya na-uno?

[chinito_aq]

galing naman ng Fudolig.

bakit kaya walang summa ang MBB ngayon? hahah. siguro nahalata nila na napadami summa nila last year.

anyways... nagtatae pa rin ng summa sa diliman..

[altair]

Mikaela Fudolig's adviser is Perry Esguerra. Perry Esguerra is also a wunderkind.

[j_yan]

walang summa sa BAA? bakit ganun?

[oatokaidnih]

wala ulit summa ang engg? owel normal naman yun.

ano kaya pinakain ng magulang nyan ni fudolig sa kanya.

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Originally Posted by Dacs

Grabe di ata tao yung Fudolig

anu sha alien?

[Mr_Whel]

Can somebody post the speech delivered by Fudolig during the university graduation? I read from peyups that it is excellent in content and it was delivered well.

[n3X]

OMG Her speech was awesome. Sobrang naiiyak na ako while hearing it. Ang galing. Malamang ippost yun somewhere. Sobra. Go Fudolig!

[p1215]

Originally Posted by Mr_Whel

Can somebody post the speech delivered by Fudolig during the university graduation? I read from peyups that it is excellent in content and it was delivered well.

Take not the road less traveled

One of the things that strike me as being very “UP Diliman” is the way UPD students can’t seem to stay on the pavement. From every street corner that bounds an unpaved piece of land, one will espy a narrow trail that cuts the corner, or leads from it. Every lawn around the buildings sports at least one of these paths, starting from a point nearest to the IKOT stop and ending at the nearest entry to the building. The trails are beaten on the grass by many pairs of feet wanting to save a fraction of a meter of traveling, no matter that doing so will exact some cost to the shoes, or, to the ubiquitous slippers, especially when the trails are new.



What do these paths say about us, UP students?



One could say that the UP student is enamored with Mathematics and Pythagoras, hence these triangles formed by the pavement and the path. Many among you would disagree.



Others could say that the UP student is naturally countercultural. And the refusal to use the pavement is just one of the myriads of ways to show his defiance of the order of things. This time, many would agree.



Still, others will say that the UP student is the model of today’s youth: they want everything easier, faster, now. The walkable paths appeal to them because they get to their destination faster, and presumably, with less effort. Now that is only partly true, and totally unfair.



These trails weren’t always walkable. No doubt they started as patches of grass, perhaps overgrown. Those who first walked them must have soiled their shoes, stubbed their toes, or had insects biting their legs, all in the immovable belief that the nearest distance between two points is a straight line. They might even have seen snakes cross their paths. But the soiled footwear, sore toes, and itchy legs started to conquer the grass. Other people, seeing the yet faint trail, followed. And as more and more walked the path, the grass gave in and stopped growing altogether, making the path more and more visible, more and more walkable.



The persistence of the paths pays tribute to those UP students who walked them first – the pioneers of the unbeaten tracks: the defiant and curious few who refuse the familiar and comfortable; the out-of-the-box thinkers who solve problems instead of fretting about them; the brave who dare do things differently, and open new opportunities to those who follow.



They say how one behaved in the past would determine how he behaves in the future. And as we leave the University, temporarily or for good, let us call on the pioneering, defiant, and brave spirit that built the paths to guide us in this next phase of our life.



We have been warned time and again. Our new world that they call “adulthood” is one that’s full of compromises, where success is determined more by the ability to belong than by the ability to think, where it is much easier to do as everyone else does. Daily we are bombarded with so much news of despair about the state of our nation, and the apparent, perverse sense of satisfaction our politicians get from vilifying our state of affairs. It is fashionable to migrate to other countries to work in deceptively high-paying jobs like nursing and teaching, forgetting that even at their favored work destinations, nurses and teachers are some of the lowest paid professionals. The lure of high and immediate monetary benefits in some low-end outsourcing jobs has drawn even some of the brightest UP students away from both industry and university teaching to which they would have been better suited.



Like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths are the easiest to take.



But, like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths take longer to traverse, just as individual successes do not always make for national progress. The unceasing critic could get elected, but not get the job done. The immigrant could get his visa, but disappear from our brainpower pool. The highly paid employee would be underutilized for his skills, and pine to get the job he truly wants, but is now out of his reach. And the country, and we, are poorer because of these.



Today, the nation needs brave, defiant pioneers to reverse our nation’s slide to despair. Today, we must call upon the spirit that beat the tracks. Today, we must present an alternative way of doing things.



Do NOT just take courage, for courage is not enough. Instead, be BRAVE! It will take bravery to go against popular wisdom, against the clichéd expectations of family and friends. It will take bravery to gamble your future by staying in the country and try to make a prosperous life here. It might help if for a start, we try to see why our Korean friends are flocking to our country. Why, as many of us line up for immigrant visas in various embassies, they get themselves naturalized and settle here. Do they know something we don’t?



Do NOT just be strong in your convictions, for strength is not enough. Instead, DEFY the pressure to lead a comfortable, but middling life. Let us lead this country from the despair of mediocrity. Let us not seek to do well, but strive to EXCEL in everything that we do. This, so others will see us as a nation of brains of the highest quality, not just of brawn that could be had for cheap.



Take NOT the road less traveled. Rather, MAKE new roads, BLAZE new trails, FIND new routes to your dreams. Unlike the track-beaters in campus who see where they’re going, we may not know how far we can go. But if we are brave, defiant searchers of excellence, we will go far. Explore possibilities, that others may get a similar chance. I have tried it myself. And I’m speaking to you now.



But talk is cheap, they say. And so I put my money where my mouth is. Today, I place myself in the service of the University, if it will have me. I would like to teach, to share knowledge, and perhaps to be an example to new UP students in thinking and striving beyond the limits of the possible. This may only be a small disturbance in the grass. But I hope you’ll come with me, and trample a new path.



Good evening, everyone.




By Mikaela Irene Fudolig

UP Graduation 22 April 2007

[princess_pea]

Darn! Where's the Psych Mandala '07?!

[hacksaw]

Brilliant.

[SUX2BÜ]

Ay, walo lang? Kaunti lang ang magagaling pala.

[tOTt]

i heard magtuturo na raw siya sa UP next AY (?) kumusta naman yun, mas bata pa siya sa mga students niya. hehe. when i still lived near UP, i see her every sunday at the UP chapel serving at the altar. galing niya talaga

[math_techie]

I hope she gets a scholarship abroad, maybe to Harvard or to MIT, she would surely kick some a****s there. Sayang eh, she has so much potential and sadly, staying at UP would somehow limit her reach.

I hope to see her someday disproving Einstein's theories.

[lifeline20]

walang pumansin kay sux2bu, ako lang ata hehe...

never ko siya nakita sa UP... sayang i did not attend the university grad... tinamad na ako sa college grad pa lang sa sobrang tagal hehe

[ach_soo]

Either UP should put more keep-off-the-grass signs or, the sidewalks and corners were laid out wrong. Pity it took a 16-year old to see it.

[math_techie]

i always see her in UP, taga college of science din ako (dati), she is a very young lady, at hindi mo iisiping college na pala.