Memoirs of a Student in Manila

By: Dr. Jose Rizal

Memoirs of a Student In Manila" was written by Dr. Jose Rizal when he was
around 17 to 20 years old when he was studying in University of Santo Tomas and it
narrates his memories of being away from his family to study in Manila.

It was said that Rizals father wanted him to study in the Dominican-owned
Colegio San Juan de Letran but changed his mind and decided to send him instead to
Ateneo Municipal, formerly the Escuela Pia which was a school for poor boy and was
established by the city government and when the Jesuits returned to Manila in 1859,
they were given the management of the school. It was said that the system of education
given by the Jesuits was more advanced than that of other colleges in that time and it
was in Ateneo where he first used the surname Rizal because at that time, his real
surname Mercado had come under the suspicion of Spanish authorities.

He began at the bottom of the school, but within a month he was Emperor of
Rome. The Ateneo had divided the students into two empires, Roman and
Carthaginian, to fight for academic supremacy. It was this war that soon brought young
Rizal triumph and prizes.

At the end of the first quarter he received the grade excellent. In the five years Rizal
studied in Ateneo, he showed his intelligence and diligence in his academics and extra-
curriculars as Jesuits called him a child excellent in religious sentiments, customs and
application, with progress worthy of his signal talent.

After graduating with honors from Ateneo, Rizal went to University of Santo
Tomas to pursue higher studies. His father and brother wanted him to pursue higher
learning but Dona Teodora opposed the idea when she knew of what happended to the
three martyr priests Gomez, Burgos and Zamora.

After finishing first year of a course in Philosophy and Letters, he transferred to

the medical course. Rizal was unhappy in his stay with the university because his
Dominican professors were hostile to him, Filipino students were racially discriminated
against by the Spaniards and the method of instruction was obsolete and repressive
unlike in Ateneo. Rizal failed to win high scholastic honors although in his first year his
grades were all excellent and his grades in his medical studies were not impressive.

Ma. Veronica Lou Jayme

BSHRM-IV
Mrs. Susan Ferguson
The Registrar
University of Southern Philippines Foundation
Salinas Drive, Lahug Cebu City

February 17, 2017

Dear Maam,

I, Ma. Veronica Lou Jayme, a graduating student of the Bachelor of Science in Hotel and
Restaurant Management. I started in the course in the year 2012 in which I followed the
prospectus of my current course then. I was a working student thus my subject were not full
load. When my course had changed prospectus, I, with the arrangement of my College Dean,
Dr. Venus M. Empuerto, agreed and follow my old prospectus.

With this, I would like to request that my On-the-Job Training/ Practicum subject which I
am to complete this semester be credited even if this is from the old prospectus. This has been
previously arranged and approved with our Dean.

Hoping for a positive feedback regarding this matter.

Thank you so much and may God bless you.

Very truly yours,

Ma. Veronica Lou Jayme

Subject Description (old prospectus) :

Subject Description (new prospectus) :

Noted by:

Dr. Venus M. Empuerto

Dean School of Business and Management