When I first got to Cambridge, I couldn't afford to buy the books I needed.
I had newly arrived in the UK as a young boy who barely spoke English. Somehow I managed to achieve the grades to get into Cambridge University to study medicine.
At Cambridge, I was still trying to learn English, still trying to keep up with brilliant minds, and still figuring a new life in the UK.
Most of the time I would sit and read the books at Cambridge Trinity Hall library until early hours of the morning because I couldn't afford to have my own books.
Years later, I walked into the same Library and saw my own book on the shelves.
That moment hit me harder than I expected.
Not because it made me appreciate the hard parts, but because it reminded me how far this journey has come.
I never thought that I belonged at Cambridge, especially coming here as a refugee, but I always believed in my destiny and I kept taking steps forward.
There was a time when I was trying to build a future with very little...
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