OPTICS / FLEDGLINGS
THE QUANTUM ACADEMY
A Quantum Student is...
Reflections of a new Q-kid
by: Inigo Aquino
Diverse personalities are present in different
schools and intitutions which students need to deal with.
There are students who classify themselves as
“cool” and there are those who focus on getting good
academic grades.
In our very own The Quantum Academy, Inc. it is
undeniable that we have different thoughts, talents, skills,
and characteristics. We, Q-kids are often stereotyped by
outsiders as “above” and “unique”. And this is where the
question comes: What is an average Quantum student?
Who really is a Q-kid?
I graduated from a big school, a university. It has
many students from pre-school to college and graduate
school. It is a school filled with a myriad of people with
different cultures, family orientations, practices, and
upbringings. There are the popular kids, the brainiacs, the
jocks, the Goths and many more.
Stereotypes exist among the groups and these are
unavoidable.
Prior to my transfer in The Quantum Academy,
‘Quantum’ had always been a famous name across almost
all the schools in the region and in GenSan especially when
inter-school academic competitions were held. Quantum
for me was an academic “power bloc” institution. Before
I entered Quantum, I’d been hearing people labeling
Q-kids as excellent mathematicians with outstanding
performance in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
But there was one dominant trait this school was famous
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for—it is English-oriented. As former outsider, I thought
they were very intelligent because they speak English very
well. I thought they were very smart because of the loads
of information they have. Some