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5 years in UP

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[Read this Facebook post as prologue] Five years in UP Unlike the cliché of ending your college journey on a random day, mine ended with a typhoon—shoes soaked in mud, umbrellas flipping their ribs against the weather, for a 5-minute commencement exercise. Yup! That was our batch, class of 2023. Unlike so many great films, the graduation was so anti-climactic. But I dare say it’s still cinematic. A tragic one, that is. Our journeys may have ended too quickly due to the downpour on the morning of July 30; that personally makes it more memorable, for better or worse.  Of course, I wish my grandmother did not have to suffer from her arthritis while struggling through the mud, and I wish my family had fully experienced a proper graduation program at the premier university of the country. If anything, what matters is that I did graduate. I finally earned a bachelor's degree in film. After 5 years.  I would not "receive" my Latin honors after 2 years, in 2025, through a formal...
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5 LESSONS OF A GEN Z: Full Speech JILS Graduation 2026

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I was invited by my alma mater to be the guest speaker at their high school graduation and moving-up ceremony last March 30, 2026. Below are the introduction they wrote and edited for me, and the edited transcription of my full speech with the slides I used as part of the presentation.  [Pasasalamat kay Tr. Justine for all the assistance at kina Daniel A., Marc A., Cath A., and Nics B. sa critique at input] Photo from JILS Facebook Page INTRODUCTION (by Earla Mari D. Isidro) Classmates, parents, guardians, JILS faculty and staff, administrators, and our special guests, good evening.  Our Guest of Honor and Speaker this evening is a distinguished writer, editor, and film producer who graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Film from the University of the Philippines Diliman. During his college years, he demonstrated exemplary leadership as Secretary-General from 2020 to 2021 and later as President from 2021 to 2022 of UP Cinema, a premier student film organization....
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