Three is to One

Three is to One
Marianne Therese Prado

Chew on this: for every four CEA students you bump into, three are males.
This is the mathematics you have to learn by heart each time you stroll by Blanco Hall into hundreds of virile and imperious slacks-and-polo undergraduates and hardly any womanly skirts-and-shoulder-bags educatee. But you can see a more vivid picture in the chapel if there is a celebration of the Holy Eucharist sponsored by the College of Engineering and Architecture.
If you are one of the students who always go inside the CEA office, whether or not you are related to the dean or Ma’am O, or if you’ve established a good relationship with any of the working students, you can ask for a simple census and be overwhelmed with the data.
Before reporting to my first period, I dropped by the office to get what I need: tough evidence. Yes, I was overwhelmed by the face that in the first semester of this academic year, 804 males were given the CEA registration form and only 240 female were given the same piece of paper. Simply put, this the population of the male and female Teknos respectively.
Now, push the buttons of you calculator. You will arrive at a three-is-to-one ratio of male to female. This is no plain statistics. It conveys a deeper message. It shouts two words: MALE DOMINION.
Again, this echoes “why” questions.
Some researchers contend that males have a solution-oriented brain, and have a greater ability to understand math. Here comes the “math genes”. (However, I doubt this.) Since CEA courses are jam-packed with a great dozen of square roots and Greek-lettered variables, it follows that guys tend to take this route. Girls, stereotyped as vulnerable, selfless and empathetic, prefer to walk through the other path.
Another reason, perhaps, is that either the male structure is made for construction and mechanical work, or construction or mechanical work is made for the male structure. (This is justifiable.) This environment is designed as second nature for CEA graduates.
Still, another theory is that males claim to be more immune to both internal and external stress, thus enabling them to survive five or more years of strenuous study. (Still, I beg to disagree.)
To really understand the mystery behind the ratio, do not ask a Tekno, rather be a Tekno.
Whatever rationale led to the ratio, at the end of the day a picture of CEA males rather than females will most probably flash in your mind when you will be slapped with the phrase “basta Tekno, astig.”