DAYEdalera

My message would be the last lecture your class will be hearing with compulsion from Prof. Tolentino a.k.a. “Ma’am Daye”. It is my fervent wish however, that my words can move you further from the gates of PUP to the last step in the ladder of success.

Graduation day is always denoted as an END; to your morning routine of traffic jams, PUP riles, attending classes while others are shouting their ideals inside the university, dealing with terror teachers, mischievous classmates, countless school projects and sickening exams. For that, why don’t we give it a “Hurray!”

But after each and every hurray of this season, graduation parties and your parents boasting about sons and daughters who freshly finished college… Graduation day should mark more as a BEGINNING; the moment you receive your diploma there will be countless of challenges that will surprise you from day to day.

You have wondered one day what will you be when you grow up, some of you have dreamt of becoming doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, accountants or engineers. NOW, you will be deciding what career you will pursue and there is no way turning back.

Your college days are over, your school burdens included. But NOW, you will be confronting no longer terror professors but demanding bosses, no longer burdensome papers and thesis but taxing policy or project proposals, no longer grade-conscious classmates but competitive co-workers. Some may take further studies in the University or others may take a different path (getting pregnant/married/annulled, deciding gender issues, career change, etc. hahaha!). Nevertheless, upon your exit from our “Sintang Paaralan, PUP”, you will NOW be facing the real world.

You will surely miss your teachers who have devoted so much time in teaching you spoon-fed.
The school personnel who have made your stay in this school very comfortable.

Your classmates who have shared the process of learning with you, even to the extent of their pad paper (which in my class is worth P100/pc during exams), bullpens and sometimes, even answers in the examinations.

You are not graduates today without them….

But most of all, YOUR PARENTS must take the honor for sending you to school and providing you with all the support they can afford.

More than my congratulations, allow me to share a cliché…

“All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

Never underestimate your power to dream for that is the first step in making it a reality. Success is 1% vision and 99% hard work.

My BPS 4-2, PS 340 tutorial classes, ECE and MN irregular graduating students, my former students who will likewise be graduating, Rachel my roomie, Fidel the debater, Arrant Lee, and all KALIPI and KILOS! graduates, MY CONGRATULATIONS & BEST WISHES.