We held our USC (University Student Council) mid-term assessment and planning last Tuesday Thursday at the Consunji conference room in UP Bahay ng Alumni.

So we assessed our performance the past first semester and calendared our projects and campaigns for the next semester. We also finally sat down and agreed to be frank and honest with each other. We all knew that we really don’t get along some times, ideologically-speaking, of course, evident in hour-long sessions that last till midnight where we debate and argue almost endlessly on our principles and stands on issues and there’s sometimes no use pretending we can create consensus.

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The incoming UP Diliman University Student Council held its first planning seminar last weekend at the Claretian Seminary in Quezon City.

It was fairly all right. I have to say, however, that the meetings took excruciatingly long, and it came to the the point that I didn’t know if the length of our deliberations meant that we were genuinely concerned and that we would like to scrutinize all the proposals or if some members really wanted to delay the proceedings for one reason or another.

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