SOSE Week goes Sesame Street
DISPROVING STEREOTYPES that Science and Engineering students are concerned with “pure studies and no fun,” they did SOSE Week a la Sesame Street.
Themed "SOSEme Street," SOSE Week was inspired by the famous children’s television show.
“We used the theme Sesame Street to highlight the diversity of our courses in [SOSE] through the form of different roads and street signs [in Sesame Street],” said Byron Allen Wang (IV BS CS), Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral SOSE Board senior executive officer.
Different events were lined up for "SOSEme Street" like the SOSE Social Involvement Summit, which aimed to increase students’ awareness about social issues in health, environment, and technology.
Another activity was the sportsfest called InterORG Series, where the nine SOSE organizations competed in different games.
"SOSE Helix" was the culminating night for the SOSE Week, which was held at Tiendesitas on February 1. Its aim was to celebrate SOSE Week with “one final blast,” said Wang.
One SOSEWang said that aside from highlighting diversity, the purpose of SOSE Week was to show that SOSE is united.
“We wanted to show that even if students take different careers and paths, there is always an avenue which will allow us to connect [to] each other and proudly say that we belong to one school.”
Wang added that the theme was chosen to do away with common notions about SOSE. “I believe we have proven through the activities we prepared for 'SOSEme Street' [that] we are one SOSE, diverse and fun.”
Not the usual SportsfestWang said that the InterORG Series was very similar to SOSE’s sportsfest last school year, but for this year, they decided to hold games like agawan ng buko and the bridge card game tournament.
[This event] enhances the relationships of the organizations with each other and with the School Board [because] all of us actually organized the games ourselves,” Wang added.
“Not promoted well”Patrick Edward Reyes (I BS MIS) said that he enjoyed SOSE Week. “We made mascots to cheer for our [Management Information Systems Association] team and it was fun. The street signs were nice, too.”
For Xyrro Zedrik Raymundo (IV BSM AMF), however, this year’s SOSE Week was not as visible as last year’s.
“This year, the event was more concentrated to SOSE people, and I think [that] with this kind of activity, you also have to promote SOSE to other schools,” he said.
Environmental Science Society President Maria del Carmen Isabel Tan (III BS ES) said that SOSE Week was held simultaneously with the School of Humanities Week “so it was a bit startling.”
“The event was also not promoted well,” she added.
Wang, meanwhile, acknowledged that there had been problems, especially with regard students’ participation because it was also exam week.
He said, however, that these problems did not discourage them from pushing through with SOSE Week.