CASS College Life Symposium Emboldens Freshmen

By Ian T. Jacob

Freshmen of the College of Arts and Social Sciences got the encouragement to surpass tertiary milestone after the Coping College Life Symposium spearheaded by the Guidance and Counseling Center, September 3, 2012 at the MSU-IIT Mini Theatre.

The Counseling Center, which has the main goal of helping each student understand themselves, was honored to have Prof. Erik De La Seña and Prof. German Gervacio as speakers of the symposium.

Prof. De La Seña, a faculty of the Department of Psychology has given his testimonial talk beginning with the quote “Only few are fortunate to be in college, you here must make the best out of it”. He shared to the freshmen arachnids a glance in his college social life, his studies and his extra-curricular affairs. Prof. Gervacio, faculty of Departamento ng Filipino at Ibang mga Wika, the adviser of Silahis and an Outstanding Alumni, brought the word “poverty” in the air. He pointed out that we cannot really deny the fact that poverty can somehow drag us in achieving our dreams and that in college, some students would just get used to hungriness.

Prof. Michael Alain Mamauag, RGC, the CASS Guidance counselor also announced what the office offers as services to the student. With the help of  its extending arm student-related organizations, which are the Student Peer Facilitators and the Learning Assistance Volunteers (LAV), the Guidance Office is equipped to promote good mental health as well as capable of conducting free tutorial sessions for those students who faces difficulty in some of their subjects.