Eriatarka

Credits to Ms. Nancy Sanchez, a teentalker in candymag.com.

Here are some tips for incoming Ateneo freshmen; I wrote a paper on the subject for my Journalism class last semester. Good luck, guys!

# You are not allowed to smoke anywhere on campus except the designated smokers' pocket gardens (or smockets).

# "TBA" is not a room, it stands for "to be announced."

# You are actually allowed to wear anything along the corridors of the John Gokongwei School of Management, and only have to follow the dress code when you plan to enter the department office or if your teacher requires it. However, if you have the grave misfortune of running into the dean, prepare for trouble!

# Wear your I.D. at all times or the guard will apprehend you and you will be sanctioned. If you forget to bring your I.D., you can get a temporary I.D. (which is basically a slip of paper) at Xavier Hall for 30 pesos. The guards will totally chase you if you try to run away, so don't. And don't give a fake I.D. number, either; it will super !@#$ someone off to have a random Hold Order that they didn't incur come finals or enrollment time.

# "B-205" refers to Berchmans Hall, Room 205. "BEL-205" refers to Bellarmine Hall, Room 205. "C" is the Schmitt Building, also known as the Chem building, which is right next to the cafeteria, not CTC.

# Leave extra early for 7:30 a.m. classes; you are contending with the entire student population of Ateneo de Manila University High School and Grade School, and Miriam College High School and Grade School.

# Refrain from sitting at the benches within the SEC B and SEC C foyers. Most people have probably heard of the Ateneo bench culture, and that's generally where they hang out. Some people will be nice and ask you to leave nicely, some people will even let you stay there, but may mga masusungit rin. It's probably going to be super annoying (it was to me in the beginning), but then matagal nang ganyan.

# For MWF classes (which are 50 minutes long), if your teacher is 10 minutes late after the first bell, the class is considered a free cut (unless the teacher specifies otherwise, or texts the beadle to say that he/she will be late). For TTh classes (which are 80 minutes long), the waiting time is 15 minutes.

# Don't bother making out in the upper stairwells of SEC B and SEC C. Marami nang nahuli doon, and nakakahiya mahuli. The guards will generally let you finish whatever nasty things you're doing before approaching you to sanction you. Ick! (P.S. I don't know this from personal experience; upperclassmen nagsabi.)

# You can get a lot of perks from being nice to the university staff, whether the profs, the maintenance, or the people handling the equipment rental and the Office of Student Chakalore (I forget the word). Of course, it's always good for your teacher to recognize who you are so that he/she can put a face to the name in the class list during grading. You can sometimes borrow equipment (like speakers, etc.) even without a slip, if the people in charge of them like you.

# In the event that you don't have your I.D., you can avoid guards by walking through the little gardens/patches of grass with small trees between the Sec buildings, and taking the secret route behind CTC (the path beside the smocket) to Faura to SocSci.

# You don't have to "fashyown" when you go to school (though I do because I'm crazy like that and I go out after classes), but my friends says that the trick to dressing for Ateneo is to wear something light and airy, and then pack a cardigan and an umbrella in your bag. The weather is super erratic.

# A lot of the food sold on the second floor caf is discounted after 430 PM everyday.