By Maria Jye Enriquez | February 2, 2019
Maria Frances Faye R. Gutierrez or as we all call "Ate Faye" graduated on the year 2018 from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. She is currently taking up Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in the same university.
Sociology, as a program, was not her first choice but her second, albeit having no idea about said program. Despite her cluelessness of what Sociology is, she considered staying in the program. Ate Faye explains that her enthusiasm for Sociology as a discipline developed only when she got exposed into the different fields or areas where Sociology students may go into such as doing research and participating in the different community development projects and more. Her desire to be involved in such activities is partnered with her desire to learn more about society, structures, or simply to know how things are the way they are.
While studying sociology, she did not expect that the people she will be encountering will help her gain several new perspectives of seeing things and life. She thought being in the program would just be like in high school, where it will just be about books, but it wasn’t. Sociology is a whole lot more than just opening a book. For ate Faye, it is always the combination of theory, practice and research. She joyfully shared that it was her professors, particularly her research mentor, Prof. Clarence Batan, PhD, and classmates who made her see the worth and importance of the discipline that has been always the non-popular choice.
What Ate Faye learned from Sociology is not put into waste. She applies all that she learned from college in her daily life - in law school, at the street, at a restaurant, at a mall, at her home, and even everywhere else. Sociology has taught her to look at life in a different manner, in a different perspective. She believes that sociology will bring people to places and its value may, for some, be only appreciated in the long run, as it can be applied wherever and whenever.
As a former sociology student, her advice to currently enrolled Sociology students, who may be uncertain of whether or not they should stay in the program, is “to give Sociology a try because it will surprise you.”
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