UST PT Hx

Right now, 4PT is comprised of 2 sections A & B with a total of less than 60 students (i'm not sure of the exact digits though). Its number has been fluctuating ever since, hehe. Batch 2004 started out as less than a hundred in first year, with both sections A and B. Second year: many have shifted to other courses and other schools, some were delayed, so the number continued to drop. Come third year, as expected, the number still sank with the wrath of difficult subjects - anatomy, kinesiology, neuroana, physio, etc, Today, we hold the greatest title of being the smallest batch (though with reference to very recent batches only). As an advantage, we get to have very intimate class and lab settings, with an improvement in the professor to student ratio. On the other hand, a drawback would be a tougher Internship since less PT interns would be able to attend to the bulk of work in the clinics - which means more patients per intern.

Batch 2004 is very much governed by class politics. Haha! politics, in it's purest sense doesn't mean corruption - so let me put it that way. Class officers are elected and they get to do their respective jobs, the president and the class treasurers having the bulk of the work. The president arranges many things from re-scheduling of classes to texting info, screaming who wants notes and whatnots. The job of the treasurer is something i would never want to have. They collect for the weekly class fund, notes and extra-curricular stuff, and they get to have the pleasure of carrying the stick-up prone cash box. The other officers though take part too in the work.

Since our batch is already good enough to be called Survivor, and students as castaways, we help each other in making it through the game. The goal of our game is not to eliminate each other and evolve as sole survivor. We don't have any secret alliances to outwit others (but at the back of my head, i am still aware that it is just human to be in competition, healthy or not so), rather we pull each other up to achieve immunity (immunity from failing, that is). Notes obtained by present and previous batches are shared amongst others. Acronyms, both lewd (CN: oooh to touch and feel a something vagina...eh?.) and stupid, are shared to make memory work a little bit friendlier. Minutes before an exam, group studies are conducted just along the hallways and corridors to refresh our mixed up minds on which is which.

Though this batch has been shrunk to a small group, this batch would always remain as a big batch of less than a hundred, with the same people who started it in first year. Students could've got lagged along the way, transferred to another school, or got separated in one way or another, but forever they would remain as Batch 2004 for that's where they all started. Long live the spirit! Aim High!