LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, Philippines — For Helbert Paat, lone summa cum laude of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) batch 2019, success started with a green Post-it Note. “Deep inside, I knew it seemed impossible for me to reach [those goals], most especially the long-term goal of graduating summa cum laude,” Paat said. His doubts were proven wrong when he graduated this year with a general weighted average of 1.1718, besting 22 other students who got magna cum laude honors and 201 others who graduated cum laude. Paat graduated on Saturday with 2,418 other students, but remains unsure about which path to take after school. There’s no Post-it Note to help him plot the future this time, but Paat said: “I don’t even know where that sticky note is now, or why I wrote what I did.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 23, 2019 21:22 UTC