The Energy Change Institute is all about what universities are meant to do – they’re meant to take knowledge, they’re meant to teach people, they’re meant to learn stuff and they’re meant to work with the rest of society to take that knowledge and to disperse it.
Professor Brian Schmidt, ANU Vice Chancellor (from the ANU Energy Change Institute 2016 Annual Report)
I went to university and was told it works like a ticket to progress in life.
After spending five years in my undergraduate studies and another two years in graduate school, I could say there is a truth to it. (Yes, I spent a total of 19 years in school.)
Because I sure am not the same since I graduated seven years ago (as of the time of writing). Thinking about it makes me remember all the people I met and encouraged me that I can go farther and become something more.
My degrees represented what I can do and offer towards making things better and better things. Yes, they may be inadequate to describe or define everything I am now, but they surely helped me become who I am today.
The university has become my safe space to explore what’s possible and dream bigger things, seeing what I could become if I just put in the work and given the right resources to make things happen.
Most of all, I wouldn’t be here if not for the guidance of my Lord, The Almighty. The Lord has laid out my path straight as I relied upon His wisdom, treading from one opportunity to another. Even today, I still swear upon the mighty things that happen when you trust the Lord with your future.
jessa 