I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.
The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.
So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.