Where I Learn is Your Business

Saint Louis University Laboratory High School is where I study and in this particular blog post, I would like to share with you all a very short history and description of my school (Saint Louis University Laboratory High School) and the university it belongs to, (Saint Louis University).

It all started in the year 1911 when a CICM missionary, Rev Fr Séraphin Devesse, opened up a small room so he could teach a couple of young boys. That start was what sparked the development of Saint Louis University. Now, SLU has a college campus with more than just one small room and also, SLU has more than just a couple of young boys as students. Now, thousands of students study in SLU and they’re not just boys, now SLU also has girls studying on its grounds. Now, SLU is about to celebrate its centennial and looking back, it’s really been so far since the start of SLU’s development because the development of SLU is, up to now, ongoing. From a small room to a very large University we can see how fast a developing institution thrives to become excellent and to live up to the title, The Light of the North.

So with all these facts, you can now see that my school started from scratch and now even I am part of it. In every fellowship, group, committee, sisterhood or brotherhood, and the like there must always be a leader who keeps that certain unit together; without that leader, that unit is T-O-A-S-T (Truly Overly And Seriously Toast :). Currently, the leader of the university I belong to is not other than Fr. Jessie M. Hechanova. I am very thankful for him because without him Saint Louis University would be TOAST.

For me, I am currently in the high school department because of the fact that I can’t be accelerated into being a college student because I’m not really that smart. Now each of the departments of Saint Louis University are like branches branching out from a big trunk of a very big tree and for each branch there would be someone who would be holding the pieces together so that he and the leader of the main trunk would work together to make everything work. For the current branch I’m in, the leader is Dr. Joel Cabanilla. I don’t really know that much of the other branches but at least I was able to give you a better understanding of my school.

So for now, enough about the tree talk. Let’s talk about the other things about Saint Louis University.

Every once in a while – whether in elementary, high school, or college –, masses are held to help each and every one of the students to be closer to God and in these masses, our very own parish priests are the ones who celebrate the masses with us which makes me very thankful to them for without them there would be no Christian Spirit in this institution.

In every branch, there are also the teachers and/or professors who are those behind all the excellent students teaching and coaching them for the future. These people are like the muscle and bones that make all the parts of the body move same as through with us, they are the ones who keep the students moving, working, thinking, studying, and doing other things like sports or something. They are there to develop a student’s Creativity and Competence (not one without the other)

So we’ve mentioned the President, the Principal, the Parish Priests, and the teachers. The only thing s left are the… students.

The students are like the blood that flows through the body, without blood – or should I say students – the body can’t live at all. Students are the ones to be trained, to be crafted, to be taught how to be good people for the world and for the community in the future. They are responsible for each other and with each other they learn to be Socially Involved.

So as you can see there are 4 main values that I’ve pinpointed in my previous statements and these are having a Christian Spirit, Creativity, Competence, and being Socially Involved. These four main values are the 4 core values of Saint Louis University. These values are responsible for the honing of not only the student’s attitudes but also that of the faculty and staff’s values and attitudes.

You could probably see that we can’t be what we are without one or the other so I say that we can’t be what we are now without everybody else’s help. As they always say ( I apologize for the cliché) “There’s no ‘I’ in team.”

As expected I’m going to include here my short poem.

School it’s not just about children

That would be just too much of a burden

Everyone is here to help

No one will just sit down and yelp

It’s hard to do things alone

And sometimes we just want to stay at home

But really, we can’t

Then later on we realized that we went

Because in school it’s just like that

We just don’t stay and ask the question what

We stay because there’s the why and why not

And this is what will help us easily untie the “knot”

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