At the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in the Philippines, there has been a myth that exiting through the Arch of the Centuries while studying there will bar you from graduating from the university. Well, that happened to me, not permanently but for a while. That is because, way back in 2012, as a fresh blood in the university and a new M.S. Pharmacy student, I happened to roam around the historical landmarks of the campus after the first day of school. I remember it was a Saturday because the classes I enrolled in for my degree were all on the weekends since I was working on weekdays as a full-time Pharmacy instructor at a different institution. At the time, I hadn’t even opened the student handbook or read any school announcement. In other words, I was too confident that everything would be perfectly fine without doing either of these. The Arch of the Centuries, UST 2018 Photo Credit: Eri Yunson With my desire to get to know the university on that Saturday an