Cienca y Virtud

Cienca y Virtud 

            Good afternoon everyone. I am much honored to speak before you today. I was always the guy how had so much laziness that if the apocalypse happened outside my window I would still be sleeping in my bed. So much has happened that made me what I am today. But I’ll give you the short version. It was all because of ciencia y virtud, science and virtue. It was the middle of my second semester during my first year here in CEU. As usual I was coming to class without a care in the world and only did enough so that I would pass. But when I received my grade in a particular subject I felt nervous. I had gotten 3.5. It was just the prelims but I got terrified because I might fail. I knew that I needed to get it back somehow so I studied hard. I thought that I could just cheat and get it over with. But that would be wrong plus this subject was something that you could not cheat. I’m not saying that I would if it was plausible. Okay maybe I would. Anyway during the first quiz at midterms I knew that I was ready and I could actually pass. It was an awesome feeling. That feeling when you pass and you actually studied. I never truly felt this before. Because of that I eventually passed. Maybe I did get lazy again from time to time but I always picked up myself whenever. Time came when I really got serious because of this gnawing feeling that all the years I have spent studying would be for nothing.

The reason why CEU’s motto is ciencia y virtud is because having only one isn’t enough. Be it only science would be living without caring what is right or wrong, just doing what is in your knowledge to succeed and not caring about other people. Even though it looks right at some point, you’ll never succeed in life without virtues for they help you make connections and friends. No man is an island; everyone needs help at some point in their lives. This works vice versa. Having only virtue means that not having enough knowledge to get by. Do you know why this is CEU’s motto? It’s because it’s their job to help us succeed. We could just take this lightly and ignore it but it was made for a reason. It’s perfect for helping us be what we want and need to be.