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• It’s not easy to pass the ACET. Even if you’re 6’5” and have a mean hook shot.
• Our campus is gorgeous.
• When we say “hell week”, we mean “HELL week”… and we always survive.
• Thanks to countless Philo oral exams and papers, we can BS our way out of anything.
• We know the gratification that comes with getting an A from a Jesuit teacher. Or even just a B.
• Meron.
• Our patron saint’s leg was broken by a cannonball, but it didn’t break his spirit.
• We get to yell “Win or lose, it’s the school we choose!” every time we sing our school song.
• Even our least respectable course is still a hell of a lot better than “Sports Management”.
• La Salle jokes are really, really funny.
• When people ask what school you’re from and you answer “Ateneo”, they get a look on their faces that says “wow”.
• Magis.
• We can sit through tediously long and unbearably hot graduation ceremonies with smiles on our sweaty faces.
• Our diplomas are impressively ginormous, and printed in Latin.
• The Placement Office helps us land good jobs after graduation.
• The Alumni Office sends us letters for our birthdays, Easter, and Christmas every year.
• Our good teachers stay, and many are still around up to now.
• No matter how many years have passed since graduation, Loyola Heights always feels like home.
• We always give everything ONE BIG FIGHT.
• It’s not that we’re better than everyone else. It’s just that we couldn’t imagine being anything else other than Atenean.

*****
by my dear friend, and fellow Blue Eagle fan, Aileesa Lim, (BSLM 2001).