by Patricia Miranda
Freshmen Orientation Program 2015: ‘That Thing Called Lukan’
by Patricia Miranda
Angelo King Auditorium – On Thursday and Friday, July 24th and 25th, 2015, SLCM’s Student Council (SC) hosted the Freshmen Orientation Program (FOP) 2015. Here, SC welcomed the newest members of the Lukan community, Batch 2020, while strongly promoting the Lukan identity.
This year’s FOP theme was inspired by the 2015 movie, ‘That Thing Called Tadhana’. The program was mainly spearheaded by SC’s Team Internals, together with Batch 2019. 109 first-year students were in attendance along with all student organizations, volunteers, administration, and staff.
FOP Day 1
To start off the day, Hosts Junelle Dumangon and Lily Torreña heated up the crowd in Angelo King Auditorium with their introduction video. Their side comments and timely deliveries of jokes kept the atmosphere energetic.
For the majority of the day, the first-year students participated in a campus tour led by upperclassmen facilitators. The tour focused on familiarizing the first years with their new home for the next few years.
Various SLCM student organizations participated by promoting themselves in various rooms throughout the tour. This included Musician’s Circle, St. Luke’s Dance Company, Chorale, Sagip Bayan, Agape, and Iatros.
Additionally, some rooms housed talks by student volunteers from Batch 2019 and Batch 2018.
Following the tour, the Performing Artists League showed off their talents throughout the afternoon, each in hopes of recruiting first-year students.
During lunch, the SLCM Chorale serenaded the crowd with their renditions of various songs including Pentatonix’s version of “Video Killed the Radio Star”.
Afterwards, in the auditorium, the Musicians’ Circle gave “That Thing Called Tadhana” inspired performances, performing some of Sam Smith’s hit songs.
Lastly, St. Luke’s Dance Company gave an impressive, powerful and fierce performance to multiple songs highlighting their various members.
Between these performances, the first-year students participated in batch games with the hosts.
The students were also oriented about the services and facilities that the Library offers by the Library Staff. Also, SLMC-FI promoted the Foundation Scholarship through a talk accompanied with an inspiring video.
An Open Forum capped of the first day wherein the Student Council, and the Dean answered some inquiries by the students.
FOP Day 2
Batch 2019 lead the second day of FOP. This day focused on first-year students getting to know each other as well as upperclassmen.
The day’s hosts, Team Externals of the Student Council, CJ Almazan and Patpy Miranda, entertained the crowd throughout the day with their chemistry and antics.
The first part of the day was named, ‘Stop, Lukan, Listen’, a speed dating game for the first-year students to familiarize themselves with their classmates.
However, after a few rounds, the hosts encountered problems with matching people. The organizers quickly improvised by instead starting a game of ‘Bahay, Bata, Bagyo’.
Batch 2019 did not hold back on surprises for the freshmen. The next game was called ‘Find the Hidden Sophie’.
Earlier in the registration, six second-year students were already blending in and pretending to be members of Batch 2020.
After the speed dating, it was announced that sophomores were hiding amongst their numbers. The first-year participants then had to ‘accuse’ members of their class and bring them forwards to explain why they choose them.
Five out of the six sophomores, three females and three males, were identified and the last man standing was sophomore Lilbert Go.
The participants were grouped together with facilitators to show them where to eat around the campus.
After Lunch, students convened in room 1202 and were briefed on the upcoming task, ‘The Maze’.
All of the participants were blindfolded and put through a maze of straw rope wrapped around human posts.
A couple of minutes in, the facilitators and the posts were asking them ‘Do you need help?’, once they have answered yes they were led out of the maze and were asked to scream ‘I’ve found the finish line!’.
Resilient students stayed for around 45 minutes running around the maze.
The goal of the game was to let the incoming batch know that it may seem like there is no ‘finish line’ when studying Medicine, but it is never wrong nor never too late to ask for help.
Lastly, the exhausting day ended with the election of their temporary subject representatives that will help them for the upcoming week prior to their official class election.
To end the day, the Student Council thanked all the participants, volunteers, and sponsors, Sharpie, Photoman and Zagu, for supporting and making their event possible.
Overall, Student Council succeeded in giving the new first-year students a warm welcome with a dose of the Lukan brand. [x]
Freshmen Orientation Program 2015: ‘That Thing Called Lukan’
by Patricia Miranda
Angelo King Auditorium – On Thursday and Friday, July 24th and 25th, 2015, SLCM’s Student Council (SC) hosted the Freshmen Orientation Program (FOP) 2015. Here, SC welcomed the newest members of the Lukan community, Batch 2020, while strongly promoting the Lukan identity.
This year’s FOP theme was inspired by the 2015 movie, ‘That Thing Called Tadhana’. The program was mainly spearheaded by SC’s Team Internals, together with Batch 2019. 109 first-year students were in attendance along with all student organizations, volunteers, administration, and staff.
FOP Day 1
To start off the day, Hosts Junelle Dumangon and Lily Torreña heated up the crowd in Angelo King Auditorium with their introduction video. Their side comments and timely deliveries of jokes kept the atmosphere energetic.
For the majority of the day, the first-year students participated in a campus tour led by upperclassmen facilitators. The tour focused on familiarizing the first years with their new home for the next few years.
Various SLCM student organizations participated by promoting themselves in various rooms throughout the tour. This included Musician’s Circle, St. Luke’s Dance Company, Chorale, Sagip Bayan, Agape, and Iatros.
Additionally, some rooms housed talks by student volunteers from Batch 2019 and Batch 2018.
Following the tour, the Performing Artists League showed off their talents throughout the afternoon, each in hopes of recruiting first-year students.
During lunch, the SLCM Chorale serenaded the crowd with their renditions of various songs including Pentatonix’s version of “Video Killed the Radio Star”.
Afterwards, in the auditorium, the Musicians’ Circle gave “That Thing Called Tadhana” inspired performances, performing some of Sam Smith’s hit songs.
Lastly, St. Luke’s Dance Company gave an impressive, powerful and fierce performance to multiple songs highlighting their various members.
Between these performances, the first-year students participated in batch games with the hosts.
The students were also oriented about the services and facilities that the Library offers by the Library Staff. Also, SLMC-FI promoted the Foundation Scholarship through a talk accompanied with an inspiring video.
An Open Forum capped of the first day wherein the Student Council, and the Dean answered some inquiries by the students.
FOP Day 2
Batch 2019 lead the second day of FOP. This day focused on first-year students getting to know each other as well as upperclassmen.
The day’s hosts, Team Externals of the Student Council, CJ Almazan and Patpy Miranda, entertained the crowd throughout the day with their chemistry and antics.
The first part of the day was named, ‘Stop, Lukan, Listen’, a speed dating game for the first-year students to familiarize themselves with their classmates.
However, after a few rounds, the hosts encountered problems with matching people. The organizers quickly improvised by instead starting a game of ‘Bahay, Bata, Bagyo’.
Batch 2019 did not hold back on surprises for the freshmen. The next game was called ‘Find the Hidden Sophie’.
Earlier in the registration, six second-year students were already blending in and pretending to be members of Batch 2020.
After the speed dating, it was announced that sophomores were hiding amongst their numbers. The first-year participants then had to ‘accuse’ members of their class and bring them forwards to explain why they choose them.
Five out of the six sophomores, three females and three males, were identified and the last man standing was sophomore Lilbert Go.
The participants were grouped together with facilitators to show them where to eat around the campus.
After Lunch, students convened in room 1202 and were briefed on the upcoming task, ‘The Maze’.
All of the participants were blindfolded and put through a maze of straw rope wrapped around human posts.
A couple of minutes in, the facilitators and the posts were asking them ‘Do you need help?’, once they have answered yes they were led out of the maze and were asked to scream ‘I’ve found the finish line!’.
Resilient students stayed for around 45 minutes running around the maze.
The goal of the game was to let the incoming batch know that it may seem like there is no ‘finish line’ when studying Medicine, but it is never wrong nor never too late to ask for help.
Lastly, the exhausting day ended with the election of their temporary subject representatives that will help them for the upcoming week prior to their official class election.
To end the day, the Student Council thanked all the participants, volunteers, and sponsors, Sharpie, Photoman and Zagu, for supporting and making their event possible.
Overall, Student Council succeeded in giving the new first-year students a warm welcome with a dose of the Lukan brand. [x]