Every year new students are admitted to the Dream Together Master Program, hoping to leave with a refined view and purpose of what they must do with sport. However, what they do not know is that they also have been welcomed into the DTM family.
6th batch Valedictorian Daulina Osmani exclaimed that she was worried when she was first welcomed to the DTM family because it was “weird and non-sense at the time” to consider academic cohorts as family. However, “it didn’t take longer than one month to realize” that she was indeed a part of a new family.
In the fall of 2019, 19 new students from 18 different countries formed the DTM 7th batch. Even though they all came from different cultures and experiences, 7th batch president Amjed Mustafa stated, “Studying and working together for a specific purpose really initiated the close-knitted atmosphere that is present among the 7th batch.”
While new family members were welcomed, the time soon came for 6th batch students to leave the nest.
On December 17, 2019, the commencement ceremony for DTM 6th batch students was held at Seoul National University, making a total of 138 family members from 52 countries. DTM Director Joon-ho Kang remarked, “An invisible bond of family formed among us and thickened as time passed by.” He further commented that though this family briefly comes together to disperse again in the near future, physical distance is no barrier to the DTM family as the familial bond will remain forever, encouraging each other as each family member grows to become sport administrators.
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