By Mark Teo (Class 2023) and you shall breathe tomorrow yet hold your tongue today until the storm has run its course and the nimbus rolls away concealed in rain the voice of thousands thatContinue reading
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Spook-tacular Scares For Your Spooktober Needs
Just in case anyone needs reminding (as the months of being cooped up inside have addled all our external markers for time), Halloween, also known as the last day before Michael Bublé’s Christmas album canContinue reading
Tao Rin Pala 47: Voices.
By Sean Sy (Class 2023) “Omg. TRP na.” That line feels a bit different this time around. This year, there won’t be any scrambling to get chorale pieces perfected in time for the night ahead.Continue reading
Hiraya: UPCM Commencement Exercises 2020
By Abdelaziz Maldisa (2022) and Mark Teo (2023) Ever resolute, the UP College of Medicine (UPCM) Class of 2020 reaffirmed their commitment to serving the people in Hiraya, the 111th Commencement Exercises of UPCM. OnContinue reading
To Practice Medicine is to Serve Justice
Uriel Cachero UPCM 2020 This speech was delivered on behalf of the graduating class during Hiraya: The UP College of Medicine 111th Commencement Exercises. We’ve learned many things in our long journey through medical school.Continue reading
Fornix, Fornicate, and Fascinating Etymologies
By JE Mariano (Class 2023) It’s in class that I first encountered the word fornix, which in neuroanatomy is a bundle of nerve fibers in the brain. Automatically I thought of fornicate (they share theContinue reading
Twists: Realizations During the PLE Season
by Arobe Shiek Goling II, MD (Class 2019) It has been several months since I successfully hurdled one of the greatest battles of my life – the September 2019 Physician Licensure Exam (PLE). To describe the weeksContinue reading
Aromantic Valentine’s
by UP Medics and contributions from the UPCM Community art by Josh Christian Protacio (Class 2023) We have once again reached that arbitrary point in time which many cultures around the globe choose to celebrateContinue reading
Friendship: The Purest Form of Love
by Migs Medina (Class 2023) How many people can you truly, unequivocally, call your friends? Sure, you may have 1,000 friends on Facebook. Sure, you may have met a lot of people in school, andContinue reading
BAKBAKAN XIV: Men’s Basketball (CM vs. CD | October 28, 2019)
by Abdelaziz N. Maldisa (Class 2022) CM’s hoops team scored back to back victories in UPM’s SSWC, notwithstanding freak weather that led to game cancellations in the erstwhile “weather-proof” court. In a game played against the College ofContinue reading