Being an Atenean, for me, is different. It’s more than just having a college degree from Ateneo. It’s more than being a man for others. It’s more than applying what the institution has taught. And it’s much more than being an avid supporter of its basketball team. To be an Atenean is to actually live a life that will make the institution proud to have educated such a person. That’s what being an Atenean is. The same goes for other universities. To call oneself as an alumnus or an alumna of a university, it’s not sufficient to be a recipient of a diploma from the university. It’s living the life the way the university shapes its students/graduates. Each university has a different approach, a different focus, a different way of shaping its students/graduates. Until they live the life that is in accord with the university’s purpose, the university’s reason to exist as an educational institution, I think they are merely recipients of the university’s educational style. In my case, I’m only an Atenean in paper due to the diploma I got a while ago. I don’t think im living a life that would entitle me to call myself as an Atenean. So, how should one live to be able to call one’s self an Atenean? Well, figure out first what those four years meant, what the university is shaping its students for and what they are supposed to do as members of society equipped with such an education. what i just wrote is bullshit that makes sense.
Also, there’s another image of an Atenean. The not so good one. That also a reason why I don’t want to call myself an Atenean. That image is something that I openly attacked during high school and I was really pissed that I ended up in a school that produces such people. So I guess there are two types of Ateneans and im neither.
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