Graviton Gazette

Names of high distinction, most esteemed by the town or the city or even by respective regions, have been a defining policy for us in our yonder years. The years filled with vigor and enthusiasm for learning, full of potentials to surpass academic challenges tantamount to Mount Everest yet to be wreaked by malevolent fate. In the pile of credits that we have attained, where are we now and where were the people we have known to be?

Four years ago, we have entered this very institution with pride and power bragging of individual achievements. Months pass, these achievements may seem to fade away overwhelmed by emotions of sadness and ambiguity of even passing the year. It seemed that who we are in the past doesn’t matter and what matters the most is who we are now and what are we trying to do for our future. This is Pisay. It taught to us to work hard, learn more and may be to even achieve the unachievable no matter who you are in the past. The faculty and staff, unparalleled by other schools in terms of recognition and achievement, have brought us day to day challenges in the academic and co-curricular field trying to bend us to our limits, trying to exude all their efforts to bring out our hidden potentials. The dormitory life teaches us not only to interact with one another but also independence to stand up in one’s own feet. But in the long run, have Pisay made us what they want us to be? Have we been a nutshell of the future of the country? Have we made it to their line of expectations?

The ironic thing is we fail to see it ourselves. We may think that we have failed to be what they want us to be due to the low marks in our report cards and primarily due that we now lack the fervor for academics but in my belief, this isn’t what the Pisay story is all about. Each Pisay story is not who we are in the past and not who we are in the future. The Pisay story may seem to end with the graduation with who bagged the heaviest medals but this is not the Pisay story. The Pisay story is a journey. The Pisay story is building one’s self from a pile of guts and courage. It is building a bridge of science to the society and breaking the walls of vagueness and doubt. It is standing up for the truth and it is striving for excellence. It is the path that everyone will take in the four years they will have in Pisay. No matter who you are in the past and no matter what it will make you because the important thing is, you got in to this path and made your journey worth reminiscing.

Stand up and take the dust of people’s criticisms off your sleeve. Pisay is no competition, it is rather a part of one bigger thing that they don’t even know. Pisay is an acid test of growth. We, Philippine Science High School scholars, committed to the pursuit of excellence will together make this journey worthwhile. There may be pressure and there may be stress but after all, look at gems and pearls. May be someday we will find ourselves in one with them – precious, prized and full of experiences.