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My goal after college is to work in the field of technology and business abroad. As someone who grew up with an OFW father (he’s been an OFW since I was 9 years old and I’m 21 now), it’s really difficult and expensive to connect with him. My concrete plan to make the more loving choice is to work in the country where my parents are located as they don't have any plans in retiring in the Philippines.  I would like to spend their retirement years with me. I am an only child and I don’t know what I would do without them.

- Iris Salangad

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Even though my ultimate goal is to be in production, the same skills and behaviors apply. My plan of action is to commit to being of help towards others, be it in class, org, family, or anything else. Much like the way a production team works, committing to open communication and building a sense of camaraderie are two good starting points for me to work on and show love to others through it. -Zandueta

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My goal after college is to work in advertising or public relations which evidently deals with many people from all walks of life. The commitment here is to do God's work in the sense that I will choose to share God's love through my actions and my behavior as I interact with people in my field. A part of this is setting aside my own personal agenda when it comes to making decisions and lift up all my choices to God so I can tune into His voice and follow the path He wants me to take. -Ronan Francisco

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Currently, I do not know where I am headed after I finish college. I do not know if my current plans of going into law school will be what I will pursue. However, if there is one thing I am sure of is whatever I will do, as my home department in Development Studies has taught me, is that there are always people in need of help and wherever those people are I hope to be there to help them in any capacity that I can. The future maybe unclear in this moment, but I know that God is with me now and I know that this is the plan he has for me. - Pio Ty

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In the hopes of becoming a doctor in the future, I hope to go to med school after I graduate college. As cliché as it may sound, I feel that working in the medical field would allow me to use my skills and knowledge in helping others live better and healthier lives. I aspire to commit to my goal by not only completing all the necessary educational requirements to become a competent doctor but also taking small steps in empowering other people as early as now in my everyday life and current organizational work. - Nicole Buensuceso

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My goal after finishing university is to be in the field of management/marketing, which will enable me to help work with lots of different people in the future. As I pursue this career, I commit to implement God's vocation in the aspects of work. It may be through helping others, thinking of God's goal through the decisions made in work, etc. I also vow to pursue God's calling in other aspects of my life, whether it be in friendships, relationships, family, etc. - Jethro Caayupan

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My long-term objective is to become a professional volleyball player. I want to representing my country with the expertise and ability that I have proven throughout the years. I also want to make my family proud of me through sports.

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My goal after college is to be a professional volleyball player and, at the same time, build my own business. I want to commit myself to helping bring the sports community to the top again in our country and inspire young aspirants that they can also reach their dream no matter how hard the challenges are. I also want to commit myself to helping my family in the future to give back in every hardship they did for my siblings and me.

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I have wanted to do medicine since I was in grade school and I wanted to pursue pulmonology since I have struggled with asthma since I was a toddler. For a while I changed my mind and thought about pursuing ophthalmology since (as far as I know) the hours are better and they get paid more but I think that my struggle is God's way of pushing me towards this calling and I am hoping that I will someday be able to help care for other people with Asthma. - Marius

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I'm not sure where God is calling me right now, but one thing is certain: He wants me to reach out to the lost. I want to carry on Christ's ministry of preaching the gospel, spiritually assisting others, and instilling Christian values in the next generation to lead them to a deep relationship with the Lord.

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My goal in the future is to build/mark my own name on the world and start my own business. while doing so, I also dream of traveling around the world in the hopes of gaining more experiences and meeting new people. I wish to have a happy and fulfilling life helping out others and providing the best for my family and loved ones!

- Angeline Cantal

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I'm not sure where God may lead me, but I am taking up management to be in the corporate world. This isn't concrete, but I'd like to think that I may be able to help a lot of people with my life and scholastic experience. I hope to develop lifelong relationships built on love and common causes of goodness and understanding through God. - Mapue

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After college, I plan to work in the corporate field with a marketing job. My commitment to God is to commit to the field of marketing so that I can help my company serve consumers' needs through innovative ideas. It may not necessarily be in the service sector, but it may be a sustainable business that helps people without sacrificing the environment.
-Joanna Chua

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As a BS MGT student, I have been taught about the concept of sustainability and how to practice it as a businessman. While I was skeptical at first, I now see that doing so is an act of love as it takes care of the health of people and the planet, both of which are God's creations. Hence, once I am at the point in my life wherein I can start my own company, I plan to use my knowledge and skills to ensure that minimal harm to people and the environment will come from me.

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After graduating, I plan on working in corporate first primarily so that I may develop my skills in communicating with others and achieving financial stability. I feel that I am being pushed to be a teacher or trainer of people because of the experiences I have had in outreach programs and I see this calling as a way for me to get to know more people and connect with them through the lessons I teach. In my parents' careers as trainers, they were able to share their experiences to the people they taught and I feel that this is one way I can also share the lessons I have learned throughout my life. However, I am not sure if this is definitely the right choice for me but I hope to find a path that helps me develop these skills that I enjoy.

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My ultimate goal after college is to become a diplomat. My plan of action is to protect our home country's citizens, maintain peaceful relationships between nations, and create a lasting bond that would instigate change in shaping our foreign policy. That said, this would equip me to become an instrument of making more loving choices by seeing through different people and cultures, helping countries, and nations, and connecting within communities globally.  - Hannah Panda

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My end goal after college, is to work under sales in a business as well as become a business owner. I believe working in sales goes hand in hand with my talent of being social and persuasive to others whilst bringing people together and providing them a product I believe could truly help them in their day to day lives. Being a business owner, my ultimate reason for wanting to do so isn't much for me, but I wish to provide livelihood to my clients and employees, and wishing for their individual success and helping them on this journey. Rather than simply treating them as employees, I hope to treat them like partners/family aimed towards the same goal of continuous development in the Philippines and helping them in whatever ways for them to provide for their own individual families. - Nathan Saunders Ong

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When I was in high school, I already had the ambition to become a doctor. When the pandemic hit, I have listened to and experienced first-hand the health concerns and delivery problems the country is experiencing. However, these problems did not stimulate fear in me. In fact, I became more motivated to pursue my passion. As I finish my last 2 years in college, I am reminded that the more loving option is answering your calling through serving others. Throughout my journey, I will continue to work hard to proceed to medical school and exhibit grit as I face challenges with God's guidance. - Jammy Asuncion

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This photo was my first encounter with a group of IPs back in 2018 and it was for a one-day school activity to welcome them to our school. Looking back to that day, I promise to commit myself to making this a lifetime advocacy from the small things of studying well and finishing law school to—eventually—upholding their rights as their lawyer. Here, my constant and loving response would be to choose decisions that would benefit my service for them in the future.

Felicity Santos (E3)

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Right now, I am still unsure of my goal in life or what my goal is after graduation; but I believe that what I can do is focus on my studies, my loved ones, and myself. I plan to focus on learning what I can do and what I can develop for the future– create some small moments along the way that will hopefully bring me to where I am “meant” to be. -Ellyn Lee

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I do not have sure career plans yet, but I find that doing the more loving choice can be done in different ways and contexts. I am the eldest child of four siblings, and I have a big age gap between all of them.

With this, I find that I do the more loving choice in how I always do my best to act as both a third parent and an older sibling to lean on for all of them, especially our youngest. My version of (third) parenting, as the more loving choice, comes in several forms: (1) teaching them to regulate their (difficult) feelings than punishing them for it, (2) listening to them as an equal, especially with mental health and SOGIE-related things, (3) being a mediator between then and my parents in difficult situations, (4) and overall just being a good and present figure for them in the little things—bringing home their favorite snacks, helping them with schoolwork, and rushing to bookstores at night when they need something the next morning (because they're too shy to tell our parents).

I plan to continue as well as improve this more "loving" version of (third) parenting; I often think about how normalized it is in my social circles to have dysfunctional households, so in a way, I try to break that cycles in the ways I can.

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After college, I plan to go to med school. However, it's not just about studying medical concepts. Instead, I plan to immerse myself more in our healthcare context. I want to find beauty in medicine but, at the same time, embrace and hopefully improve the realities of our flawed systems in public health. I also plan to advocate for the environment throughout my journey and in between these phases of med school (e.g., continue guiding people who want to go vegan for their health and for the environment and participate in organizations that support farmers and other stakeholders for the environment and human rights). However, for now, while I am having my last two years of college, I want to enjoy every bit of it. I want to make meaningful experiences and memories with the people I love. I want to connect more with people and build a better foundation of empathy, so that I may become better in the future toward med school. Aside from excelling in academics, I want to do well in my organization, Kythe-Ateneo, for our sector by staying as active as possible. I also want to bring pride to our country by doing my best in training and competing day by day as a rower in the Ateneo Rowing Team. All of these show how I want to grow personally by working hard and contributing to society.
- Alyana Acosta

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I eventually want to work in an office setting after graduating college. I know that I could change what I want to do as well since then, but it is important to me that I do something to help other people, and use what I have learned and what talents I have to do no harm to other people

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To be frank, I do not have a dream job that I want to become when I graduate; however, I am comforted by the fact that what is important is to always be open for God's plan to unravel before me, like how vehicles (like the bus since I take it a lot) will always be there to help you travel through different places, only needing your willingness to hop on. With this, I could work on developing my attitude towards my vocation, such as honing my social and intellectual skills and personal talents. Moreover, I am inspired to always reflect in whatever opportunity is given to me, if it is a more loving choice not only for me but also for others: this could be achieved through prioritizing opportunities that could directly help people, like NGO work, and having deep faith in His plan despite hindrances and obstacles in the future.

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Seeing the world in all of its wonders and faults for so long initially made me afraid of it: I was alone and scared to live in this world that was both so dangerously inviting, yet seemingly didn't care about me. However, what this brought me to thinking about "what kind of world would I want to live in" or "how could this world be better for everyone" and I suddenly felt the rush of ideas and hopes flow out from my own creativity, and I realized that perhaps my true calling would be to impart these ideas and hopes to other people to make the most out of what they can do, all towards the world that they can do it all for. I want to be a professor who can open the eyes of his students and encourage them to have the same epiphanies as well, with the hopes that my skills in speaking and creativity will reach them, and so this is what I feel to be how God paved the way for my dreams of tomorrow.

- Leo Angelo Aquino

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This photo was taken when I was still younger. This was a feeding program that happened in a local barangay for young students who had to go to school but had nothing to eat. To be honest, I never really had any dream before, and up till now, I do not have a preferred job for the future. However, this experience together with other encounters with the less fortunate struck and formed my passion in living a life of service. This passion was the reason why I tried exploring different interests that I can use in the future to help those in need. During this journey, my pursuit of my passion and interests also led to forming my own identity in the community that I am surrounded in. Because of this, I slowly get to know and love myself better while also (hopefully) being an instrument of God's love to others.  - Vynz Catapia

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In my desire to become a medical doctor,  my long-term plan is to commit myself in learning beyond medical textbooks; to find a place in sharing my skills and knowledge to a community that needs it most. Coming from the U.S. and seeing the health disparities present in my parents' province, and even in the current city we live in now, I would like to hopefully build a hospital that is meant to serve those patients who are in low-income households and with low disposable income. Health is a resource for everyday life, and I believe that I can respond to God's call by doing the work I am passionate about, ensuring that my community can have a place to heal, to take rest.
— Marietta David

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I’ve come to realize that I want to contribute to the field of research by studying people’s lives especially phenomena about the Filipino masses which are, more often than not, overlooked and undervalued. This may not be a long-term goal but this is definitely something I want to accomplish in my lifetime so as to emulate a light as I make visible societal ills that the State prefers to keep hidden in the dark.

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I'm still uncertain about my plans because I'm not sure where God is leading me, but I'm patient with God because I don't know what he has in store for me, but I know it's something great, and I can hear a voice telling me to concentrate on the moment because my tomorrow is in God's hands. God has been using me to speak hope into the lives of others, and I will continue to help as many people as I can in whatever way I can.

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I'd like to work in the development sector after college. No matter what role or job I will be assigned to, I commit to always being open to learning about other people's experiences and having my own beliefs challenged, especially when they do not match a community or sector's lived reality. I commit to being humble and treating everyone with respect regardless of their background, and I will stand in solidarity with the marginalized and advocate for their right to be recognized and treated as human beings. – Clare Pillos

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My ultimate goal is to go back to my province and give back to my community. Above the things that we usually see in the news of how politics is dirty and corrupt, there are a few people that are still trying to make a difference. I have realized as I study my course that there are so many things that I can help with to empower and ensure that my community lives in the best conditions. It also ties with my other plan of being successful because success can easily be achieved if your community is prospering. - Rafael Jaen

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As an aspiring researcher in psychology, I hope to empower people with my knowledge about psychology. In this way, empathy is being promoted and considered as the more loving option. I believe this is one of the things that people need to learn as the loving beings of God. -Samantha Navata

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Learning 日本語 is an interest that I have and it will most likely be a crucial part of my career. I will set aside all the distractions in order to achieve my goal of becoming fluent in the language and through this, I will be able to communicate my feelings and ideas in a cross-cultural setting. Branching out to the larger world, I would be able to serve others in a way that I can speak up for people who have difficulties speaking for themselves.
-FJ Ledesma

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From this day forward, I will always keep in both the smiles and fulfillment of others without affecting my self and personal fulfillment. This win-win situation could serve as a motivation as I continue being a pre-medical student, an officer in an organization associated with children, and a daughter. In the process of pursuing the medical field, I desire to learn more from others through personal narratives and create memories still with my loved ones and people I meet.

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I would like to work after college. Hopefully, I would get a job in advertising or public relations in a corporate setting so I can develop my skills and have financial stability. I want to earn enough money so that I can return to school later on and pursue a law degree with my own money, then be able to give legal counsel to people who need it. As I am, I am unconfident and too timid, so I hope that the exposure to many people will embolden me and widen my worldview and give me the courage to pursue law in the future.

- Summer de Leon

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My goal after college is to work somewhere along the lines of management or in the corporate setting. I believe that as an upcoming individual in the labor industry, we not only have the responsibility of accomplishing our jobs, but also to choose choices that will benefit others and not only ourselves.

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Following my path in AB Psychology, I will first take up jobs in the corporate world to gain experience and to get financial stability. Once I have secured these, I want to pursue what I truly want in the educational setting and help young teens understand themselves better especially during the volatile and fast-changing stage they are in.

- Chrisel Tiglao

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Sampad Elementary School (Cardona, Rizal)

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In all honesty, I do not have a specific idea yet for the future but I realized my vocation narrative is far from being complete; the Lord is guiding me to where I should be and that gives me peace. With that said, looking back at my gifts and crosses, I was able to see that the path I am being led into is towards genuine service to the community and I know this is not an easy path with the several injustices being faced by our country. Specifically, it is leading me to doing work that protects the rights of children and promoting quality education for them. I hope that after college, I get to work for an organization or foundation that upholds the same advocacies as I do. This is just the beginning; panahon na para bumaba sa bundok.
- Allen Jeremiah De Leon

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I want to be an advocate for health, whether that means becoming a doctor or medical administrator. My concrete plan is to go to medical school in the future, but also take internship opportunities working for health-related institutions before then if I can . Through thus, I hope to be able to strengthen my resolve to find motivation in the field and the people we help. - Iñaki Rosello

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After having been afforded the privilege for a great childhood regardless of its ups and downs, the idea of being able to help provide a child the necessary care and support as he/she transitions through life as a whole is what continues to reignite my vocation as an impending pediatrician. Through harnessing the love, warmth and sincerity my loved ones have shared with me throughout my 20-year journey, I intend to create a future that is inherently greater than myself as an individual.

(Mateo Bautista, 200650)

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I have decided to pursue a finance career just this 3rd year. With that, I have been part of orgs that cater to teaching people about the aspects of finance. But, I want to take my commitment a bit further, by doing my own personal finance workshops with friends or even young adults while listening and basing it on their stories.

- Joseph Xavier Fabia

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My goal after college is to become a child psychologist. I've always gotten along well with children and have observed that they're usually comfortable interacting with me, so I want to put that talent to good use to help children and the people who are raising them. I still want to do this alongside my activism, because I really do want a better world for future generations. -Sab

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After discovering my passion for teaching, my plan is to become a teacher and work with the youth in their development and achievement of goals. I want to inspire the youth to dream big and do the best I can to help those dreams come true. - Marco Simpao

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For as long as I could remember, I have always loved stories and storytelling. No matter the career or medium, I know that my life will rooted in being a person who writes for a purpose. -A. Villano

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I am not certain with what I would like to pursue after college. However, with my love for visual storytelling, I would love to become a medium to freeze the intersections and unions of people at particular points and timelines.
- Jhanine Caoile

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I think that by actively engaging with other people and getting out of my comfort zone, I’d be able to actually have a deeper pakikipagkapwa with others. This in turn can help me make more loving and supportive choices not only for myselg but for others as well.