Why Masters in Dev't Communication?
Ever since I was a kid, I have been a fan of good stories and pictures. I loved (and still love) brochures , print ads and marketing materials. My mom says that whenever we traveled, our suitcase will always be filled up with all sorts of "pulyetos" (brochures and handouts) that I would collect from every place we visited.
I also loved (and still love) "stuff for a good cause" - donation drives, garage sales, outreach programs, girl scouts, awareness posters, volunteering. As I grew older, my fondness for sharing information about helpful stuff grew through my involvement in school activities, newsletters, theater, student council, etc. etc. My favorite suggestion for every project and campaign is, "we should have a good awareness plan so that they will know."
I planned to take Journalism in college because I loved to write and I didn't want to take the advertising route nor the literary route (not a huge fan of poems and creative writing is too... "seasonal" for me - i get writers block all the time). However, I was meant to stick to UPLB where I did BS Human Ecology, Major in Social Development. I planned to shift during my second year but I fell in love with the campus and the science of development. I said , why not combine my passion for communication with social development? It was fun. I was not the best student, but I was doing what I loved, and I was still writing !
Because of my background and the sheer number of communications graduates, I never vied for a communications-related job. As with college, I infused my passion for communications in everything I did. I could not help but get involved with awareness and IEC (information, education, communications) programs. I felt really drawn to it.
I consider myself an advocate of development communication - I believe that information is power. It is a fundamental requirement for improving the quality of life, of creating change, of sharing knowledge. I enrolled in MDC to gain credibility in this chosen field.
I always put it in my resume, interested to pursue a career in program management and communications for social development. After a while, I thought - why not support my development career with an academic degree on something I really like? Some people say you don't really need the degree to pursue something you like. But face reality guys, unless you are lucky enough to be a famous celebrity columnist, or won some award out of school that automatically made you an expert on a certain subject, an academic diploma still matters!
Ever since I was a kid, I have been a fan of good stories and pictures. I loved (and still love) brochures , print ads and marketing materials. My mom says that whenever we traveled, our suitcase will always be filled up with all sorts of "pulyetos" (brochures and handouts) that I would collect from every place we visited.
I also loved (and still love) "stuff for a good cause" - donation drives, garage sales, outreach programs, girl scouts, awareness posters, volunteering. As I grew older, my fondness for sharing information about helpful stuff grew through my involvement in school activities, newsletters, theater, student council, etc. etc. My favorite suggestion for every project and campaign is, "we should have a good awareness plan so that they will know."
I planned to take Journalism in college because I loved to write and I didn't want to take the advertising route nor the literary route (not a huge fan of poems and creative writing is too... "seasonal" for me - i get writers block all the time). However, I was meant to stick to UPLB where I did BS Human Ecology, Major in Social Development. I planned to shift during my second year but I fell in love with the campus and the science of development. I said , why not combine my passion for communication with social development? It was fun. I was not the best student, but I was doing what I loved, and I was still writing !
Because of my background and the sheer number of communications graduates, I never vied for a communications-related job. As with college, I infused my passion for communications in everything I did. I could not help but get involved with awareness and IEC (information, education, communications) programs. I felt really drawn to it.
I consider myself an advocate of development communication - I believe that information is power. It is a fundamental requirement for improving the quality of life, of creating change, of sharing knowledge. I enrolled in MDC to gain credibility in this chosen field.
I always put it in my resume, interested to pursue a career in program management and communications for social development. After a while, I thought - why not support my development career with an academic degree on something I really like? Some people say you don't really need the degree to pursue something you like. But face reality guys, unless you are lucky enough to be a famous celebrity columnist, or won some award out of school that automatically made you an expert on a certain subject, an academic diploma still matters!
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