02/07/2024
From Zoom breakout rooms to Lara Hall classrooms, we faced and conquered every obstacle that came our way. It was a hard-fought journey full of learning, full of pain, full of growth, and full of change. We are BSPH Class of 2024 and from all the hardships โ comes our new name ๐ซ
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
(dษg-lim-hรกy)
A word derived from three old Tagalog words โ ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ (dษ-ษฃi-tษb), def. spark; ๐๐น๐ถ๐บ๐ฏ๐๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ (a-lim-bลซ-kad), def. full bloom; and ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ฎ๐ด๐ต๐ฎ๐ (Ta-lag-hรกy), def. own strength, resistance, resiliency.
Adversity has never been a new word in our vocabulary. Being the last takers of the UPCAT; being freshmen in an uncertain time of the pandemic; and the first batch to experience a full face-to-face junior year, our will and determination never wavered to these challenges. On the contrary, it made us stronger and more resilient, both as individuals and as a batch ready to take on any challenge public health may give us.
Throughout our stay in Lara Hall, we all experienced our own daglimhay โ our own metamorphoses, not only to satisfy standards set by ourselves and the prestige of the university, but also to attain the standards of being catalysts to ideal and effective healthcare that all of our countrymen deserve.
๐๐ข๐จ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ข๐บ. A word that is very close to home for all of us, as its gentle utterance resembles the gentle atmosphere of words such as tahanan, hayahay and dahan. For all of us, Daglimhay feels and will always be home.
And as we leave Lara Hall and venture out to whatever public health endeavor that the future may hold for each one of us, we can surely say that Daglimhay and our work as public health professionals will always be a spark towards the inevitable blossoming of healthcare and society we all deserve.
Layout: Ayessa Bometivo
Batch Name Writeup: Jairus Bejer
Caption: Jeandre Medes