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Just like a tree struggles for his nourishment, survival, but most important its development, the university prepare us for life. The university prepares us, it equips us and most important it teaches us that nothing is impossible; just by being strong, being a fighter and patient, it doesn’t matter how many obstacles or struggles we have in life, we will conquer our dream, our purpose in life.

This is not just a spray painting in a wall; this represents the feelings of more than hundreds of students in the UPR today. “Lucha”, Spanish meaning for fight. Students fighting for their voices to be heard, for the rights to be exposed and for their future to be clear and secure, because in the end nobody nor anything can take us away our education.

Tarzan X, responsible of the spirit and pride in the University of Puerto Rico, campus of Mayaguez. Degetau porch, remains of the oldest building in campus Degetau Hall and made the emblem of the institution in 1988.

A student of the English department, expressing herself against the stabilization fee of 800$, using well made banners. Mayagüez is not the only campus fighting against the fee, Rio Piedras, Cayey, and Ponce; among others are doing it as well.

The Celtic people attribute tree of life symbol to qualities such as wisdom, strength and longevity, and the changes seen by Celts in these trees were tagged as birth, death and rebirth. Just like the Celtic tree of life, the UPR represents these values during the formation of each student and the changes throughout the history of the university.

Climbing a mountain comes with a lot of challenges that not everyone can overcome, but if you to the top, success would be your reward. For students in the UPR, completing a career could be just like as challenging as this process.

The trolley transferred between a building and another in the Mayaguez Campus. Its services help students arrive on time to class and make good use of campus facilities, but unfortunately the opposite is true when most needed are not in your workplace.

This is the parking of the Mayaguez Campus many students daily wake up early to get parking in the white area. After 9:00 am is almost impossible to get a good parking because so many students to form lines of cars waiting to parking.

The ‘Portico’ of the University of Puerto Rico, belonging to the Mayaguez Campus. A small piece of the UPRM, but something which is known by anyone and everyone who knows the ‘Colegio’ by heart and by those who know it's outstanding history. These are the ruins of the entrance of one of the buildings, Degetau Hall, which withstood the earthquake of 1918. Ruins that would later become the emblem of the UPRM, which in 1988 were moved, landscaped and turned into a monument.

The UPRM's chemistry labs. Laboratories equipped with burners, sample bottles, beakers, Mel-Temp, gas chambers, etc. Instruments which, as let known by the instructors, are scarcer day by day to the point where two groups of students have to share between each other.

Expressive – connotative This is a good representation of the brain and the mind working to find a result. The humans use it to make great things like machinery that will help to improve themselves.

Descriptive - denotative A lot of big buildings and modern structures of different geometric shapes. Many splendor gardens with flying cars in a city completely connected through channels of transportation.