On my way to work today, I chanced upon an interesting conversation on the radio. I found it thought-provoking primarily because the hosts of the show seemed to know very little about the kind of reality that other people face, especially those around us. The conversation was built around the news story on immigrants off the Libyan coast that died in a shipwreck. One of the questions boggling their minds was, “Why were these immigrants that desperate or remotely interested in

I’ve thought through the past four years of my life. I spent them well in Ashesi, even though I would have had other options if I had applied to; Claremont McKenna, Pomona and a couple of others. I believed Ashesi would be different and I got in and made the most of it. Four years in Ashesi was a life-changing experience that left a wealth of knowledge in me although I was never overly active (LOL). Thinking through the various things I could’ve learnt and the actual things I