As students transition from high school to college, their emotions and stress can run very high due to the pressure, uncertainties, and homesickness. Cramming for exams, getting the grade that one deserves, falling in and out of love, participating in extracurriculars, or just hanging out with friends – these are only some of the things…
Author: Armstrong Villamayor
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Crash Course: Tied up for Father’s Day
The days of May have come and gone by too quickly, but one could still remember the Mother’s Day escapade that had struck everyone with jitters of finding the perfect present. Piggy banks were crushed to avail her of a treat to the spa, a bottle of floral perfume, or pair of Jimmy Choo stilettos…
Words can be woven together to produce phrases and expressions with the power to emphasize our complex thoughts and ideas to others. However, some of the expressions that we nonchalantly inject in our daily conversations are becoming overused to the extent that they start to become hollow until they lose all meaning. The constant use…
This month, instead of bringing you hackneyed fables of heartbreak and finding oneself again, The Menagerie decides to present you a list of ten awesome things that are unique to the college experience that all Lasallians must definitely try before basking in the euphoria of finally earning a diploma. We classified half of these as…
There could be nothing more profound nor more valuable than the gift of time, which we must all utilize wisely to do good in this world. Despite audacious claims that “we have all the time in the world”, our time here is in fact quite limited, a paradox that makes the gift of time more…
Money may not buy us happiness, but that does not mean it grows on trees either. Nearly everything in life depends on how we opt to allocate our resources – which groceries to buy, where to go to college, how to afford a house, et cetera. Colored bills and copper coins must be doled out wisely…
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The waiting game
An On-the-Go Culture/Cutting Lines In this day and age, we have streamlined countless everyday activities to maximize time. Time is gold or rather money, as some would like to say, and society has created ways for us to bypass the requirement of waiting in life, or at least minimize it. We have cell phones to…
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The Status Quo jungle
“In the normal humdrum of mundane society and amidst the ongoing conflict between law and chaos stirs a tempestuous climate that threatens to consume us all. Within the walls of educational institutions and the confines of adolescent society, a battle ensues between two opposing sides – a battle of peer pressure, discrimination and dignity. The…