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R E A L LY ! ) O g r a p hi c s by Tiffany Ashley Uy
Some organizations only benefit their own members. Others pull off outreach activities here and there. And then there are the student publications that spend hours every day to try and produce content that informs, entertains, defends, and educates their readers. There is definitely a feeling of pride and honor (and pressure too) in being part of a student formation that has public service embedded in its core. And it doesn’t matter whether you’ll be writing sharp opinion articles, producing chummy features, or running administrative errands; once you’re part of Scientia, you are serving the people because you help the publication grow. As a member of the Scientia staff, you will join other students in amplifying the voice of marginalized groups, leading discussions in science and technology (S&T), promoting our local research,
So joining a busy student publication like Scien Scientia since I was a freshie and who is still here a you’ll make in your college life. Here are a couple of
publishing information people need to know, and of course writing commentary on the issues of the day. Evidently, producing a publication is one of the more difficult ways to serve the people. It can be tiring and stressful, and sometimes you feel like people just don’t care. But there are also touching moments. We’ve received feedback from people saying that they appreciate our work and urge us to continue telling stories. Receiving those comments is one of the best parts of the job. We’re not winning Pulitzer Prizes here or ousting corrupt politicians with exposés just yet (maybe next year), but we’re glad to be doing what we can to man the front lines in the fight for better support for S&T and for a better country. Why not spend your college days as a true-blue Siyentista ng Bayan?
Scientia was born in 1988 after College of Science students and the Board of Regents voted in favor of its Charter.
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Once you join Scientia and start doing the work, it’s impossible for you not to learn anything new and useful. We organize internal workshops for writing, designing (layout and graphics), and even administrative work. But the learning really comes in from the work opportunities presented to you. Like any other publication, Scientia has no shortage of possible things to do, and taking on these opportunities with the help of your editors will provide you with experience to hasten your (marketable) skills and build your confidence. Depending on which of the three committees (one for writing, design, and admin work) you’ll join, you’ll learn to become a better writer, designer, or coordinator. (You
Latin Modern Roman, the font used for Scientia’s masthead and logo, is taken from the font catalogue of LaTeX, a popular typesetting system.
In certain conditions, the 1988 Charter permits editors-in-chief to reign for as long as they’re students in the college.
A bot scrapes the webpage of the Philippine Journal of Science, the oldest scientific journal in the country, and alerts Scientia for new content. Since Scientia’s revival in 2016, editors-in-chief have come from geology, physics, chemistry, and biology.
