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The 101st Loyalty Day of the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, was celebrated the whole week long from October 7 – 12, 2019. This annual celebration is specifically celebrated during the October 10th of each year, wherein it commemorates the spirit of volunteerism in the heart of the UPLB students. This year’s celebration was a long week full of events that have radiated positivity around the campus.
However, there’s this one event that truly captured my heart. The event was the Alumni Awardees’ Talk: Speaking of DevCom held at the College of Development Communication Lecture Halls 1 and 2. I was so intrigued and excited about the event that I actually volunteered as part of the stage committee.
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Throughout the event, I was able to communicate with the speakers and even recognized a familiar person who was very influential for me and my little brother. Ma’am Maria Veronica Quintana ̶ Arioder, the recipient of the Alumna Educational Leadership.
Ma’am Veronica currently leads a school wherein she assured the topmost priority is her students’ developed skills in reading. She emphasized how reading could really bring you to places. Some people may not have a heart for this activity, however, we can all learn to love this. My brother who is currently home – schooled in The Learning Place, Los Baños Laguna, is a proof of how Ma’am Veronica really handles her school well.
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The most inspiring key point of her talk was how she strived for something she really wanted. Development Communication may be a blurry path at first, but as the years passed by, you will definitely appreciate the littlest and biggest things that devcom teaches you. More than the theories, the lessons learned from actual experiences outside a formal setting of a classroom are the most important knowledge gained.
The vent was truly inspiring because it gave me that pat on the back that someday, everything will fall into place. There’s so much more in development communication that we can still explore. The variety of the awardees’ stories just shows that we all have our different battles and stories. We are the players of our own game and it is in our hands whether we let the game play us or we control how our lives would turn out.
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