Here are the results of the recent chemical engineering board exams.

AdDU passing rate: 5 out of 5 or 100% (as usual)

The top 10:

1. Dennis Cristoffer Babista Tagaza UP Diliman 85.30
2. Fabrienne Michelle Denoyo Yu University of San Carlos 85.00
3. Jernel Dalisay Pateña UP Los Baños 83.80
4. Julius Mercado Magpantay UP Diliman 83.20
5. Marion Angelle Ordas Rivera UP Diliman 82.30
6. Erwin Trista Alegria Tapay UP Los Baños 82.20
7. Briant Siy Chua University of San Carlos 82.00
8. Hercules Salvador Garcia UP Diliman 81.80
9. Dale Emet Sabater Altar UP Diliman 81.60
Joseph Rempillo Ortenero Bicol University – Legazpi 81.60
10. Jerome Luigi Atillo Ramirez UP Diliman 81.50

Ateneo de Davao graduates:
1. AJERO, ALVIN WATE
2. GALEDO, JOSEPH BENJAMIN MANIGBAS
3. JABONERO, CHERRY ANNE MATAS
4. LAMOSTE, JOYCE ALMONIA
5. MALIBIRAN, MARK ANGELO OMPOY

For the complete list of passers, click on the attachment below.

i was close to breaking all hopes of becoming a chemical engineer the moment we started analysing anions. i really think that that experiment was such a crap, a great demoralizing agent in the field of chemistry. grabe naman kasi. the first and second sessions passed by without giving me any results! it was so distressing for me, especially when others seem to go through everything smoothly, with every ion appearing after another. arrghh… now the misery of chem eng is in and i admit that so far i am not handling it quite well. every affirmative said is always drowned by the reality that i am not getting any results!!

surely, chemistry has its merits, but it also has its follies that can prove really difficult to deal with. i guess the foremost thing is that you have to have a lab to practice and hone your skills. of course, you can’t bring the chemicals home, and so you have to live with having to do things in school. that’s where the other courses take ground. the capricious chemicals in chem are unlike the nasty numbers in math or physics where you are given the time of the world and the comfort of home to tame and beat them out. In chemistry, it’s always a matter of racing against time, and wishing against all luck that the ionic bastards would appear. i guess that’s why im having a debate going on inside me now whether i would be better off giving up the course and finding another one, preferrably ie or physics or math.

these thoughts have been lingering for over a week now, and though there is a ring of truth in all that i said, a part of me still wants to give chem a shot. im still in my second year anyway, and analysing anions may just be an ugly thread in a bigger, more beautiful tapestry which i might discover further along the way. diba? but even if i am generally optimistic, i am not entirely trashing out the possibilities. nevertheless, im glad that the intensity, which may be proportional to possibility, has at least subsided to a low profile.

haay..am i being too emotional? im afraid sec. gonzalez might say all these beefing are only a result of me being a “griping student”. hehe. i just hope he would not.

hahaha!! oi, im sooo happy!!
thanks to luck, after wishing badly for it, i finally found the anions i was looking for the third day of the lab session (oh..life is sometimes merciful, isn’t it?) although im not sure that the anions i got were the right ones, it’s still a great relief that i didn’t get a zilch.