r/UPfreedomwall

By random chance, I saw in my FB feed a self-congratulatory post from a “recent” PhD Biochemistry graduate from UP Manila (Dr. Joshua Angelo Hermida Mandanas). He claims that he is an expert in bioengineering (and other fields) and upon looking at his publications, nothing came obvious that he has had experimental experience in these areas to be called an expert. Most of his papers were either textbook sections or reviews. If I will be blunt, his dissertation was pretty meh! The papers and techniques were very basic that it would be desk rejected immediately in mainstream journals. Nothing wrong with self congratulations naman, what irks and cringes me is yung masyadong binida ang sarili nya to an audience who are relatively naïve to the topic. Do you see a different perspective?

We sincerely apologize for Benilde being involved in the current situation. Southville International School has already been informed and has contacted the appropriate authorities regarding the threat.

Several students from SISC also received the same email. We hope that everyone remains safe and takes this matter seriously, not only the students and staff of Benilde and SISC, but everyone from all schools who may be affected.

These are the emails and pieces of evidence from yesterday’s incident for documentation and awareness. Please remain vigilant, avoid spreading unverified information, and follow the instructions of your school and the proper authorities.

Most importantly, we hope everyone stays safe.

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hi! im from dlsu and i just wanted to ask, what are your thoughts on someone not from up, wearing a sablay-like sash for grad ceremony? i designed my own grad outfit kasi and i rlly wanted to incorporate a specific checkered pattern (if you’re familiar with the pattern on tswift’s evermore album cover) and the only way i could think of was to have it be a sash, worn in a similar style to a sablay

im just worried that it would be frowned upon or something or baka isipin na trying hard mag-mukhang taga-up pero i just rlly want to use the pattern 😭 i already had it made pero detachable naman siya

just what the title says. for context there's this one person in our org na sobrang passive aggressive at pangit kausap. for example pag may problema sya sayo di nya ididiretso and magpaparinig lang sya. or hindi talaga matino sagot nya tuwing kausap, yung replies nya ay usually not even making sense at all. sobrang disrespectful nya towards other people's feelings at narcissistic.

i could choose to ignore this person pero hindi talaga kaya kasi they end up making the whole environment toxic. maraming tao na rin ang nabobother sakanya within the org. may times na rin na naconfront na sya and ang response nya lang palagi ay ganun lang daw talaga sya magsalita at hindi na raw nya kayang baguhin.

i really love this org pero napapalayo na rin ako dahil sa katoxican nya