On Top of UP Diliman

College of Social Science and Philosophy: Palma Hall

It is impossible for a UP Diliman undergraduate student to never set foot in this building. But I am 100% certain that the probability of everyone setting foot on the Fourth Floor of the bustling Palma Hall is reduced to 25%. After all, there are only 20(!) subjects/departments that use this floor (well, at least this semester, AY 2005-2006):

1. Anthropology
2. Araling Pilipino
3. Comparative Literature
4. English
5. Filipino
6. Hapon
7. Humanidades
8. Intsik
9. Kasayasayan
10. Kasanayan sa Komunikasyon
11. Koreyano
12. Lingguistics
13. Malikhaing Pagsusulat
14. Panitikan ng Pilipinas
15. Philosophy
16. Philippine Institutions
17. Political Science
18. Sociology
19. Social Science
20. Speculative Thought

To study in UP-D and to be a stalker. All you need is CRS and People Search. How else will I know that when I saw two of my CW 198 classmates, that their class was CL 122 under Dr. Carlos Aureus (which happened to be in the "last room" in the building)?


According to the CSSP student who accompanied me, the fourth floor wasn't only filled with the 20 un-airconditioned classrooms (ranging from Room 402 - 440, even numbers only, although Rooms 424-428 appear like a huge divisible classroom). Aside from these classrooms located on the left from the center staircase, if you turn right, you see the CSSP Multimedia Room. It's a facility for lease, that provides venue, sound system and LCD projector at varying discriminatory rates.

While the Multimedia Room is to the left of this^hall, to the right are classrooms, 400 A, B & C (the Multimedia Room was D). They had alien looking, pretty blue chairs in the set.

posted by Teh Topnotcher @ 12:00 AM