uMwizerwa wa Ngoboka

1. I am geek. I admit it. MIT is reputed to be a  university of geeks so I would be the perfect fit. 2. I love challenges. Being a Gashora girl has taught me how to welcome and embrace challenges, so I can’t get enough of them. 3. I am the best, and I deserve nothing but the best. MIT is the best university world wide offering mechanical engineering-my dream career. 4. I love Boston. 5. I’ll be the first Gashora​ girl to be admitted to such a prestigious university. 6. I will always know that next door there is a Gashora girl who will have my back 7. I love math, and I would not mind living in a dorm room called cotangent 8. I know that I will learn by doing, instead of having teachers droning on about some abstract facts. 9. I am a natural maker, and you have anything mechanical, you’ll see me right next to you 10. I think MIT is the perfect fit for me.

Do you ever wonder what you would do if there was a tap without the red and blue signs for cold and hot water? Well, you will most probably boil your hands instead of washing them. Imagine using a charger that does not signal the right power and voltage, your phone or other electrical appliance would definitely burn down. Now do you ever acknowledge that person who spends a lifetime designing those signs.Or do you think that they are just meant to be.

Recently, I started the last term of my high school year. As a Gashora girl, I had a lot on the plate. I had to do the standardized tests, write essays, finalize projects and keep up my academics. Everyone else seemed to have completed at least one of the above, yet I had not started working on any of them. Logically, I had to work twice as hard as everyone else to catch up on everything. In order to make it work, I had to call on a Greater Power. I couldn’t rely on alarms, they tend to wake you up in a fitful dream. As a Christian, my refuge was God. So, every night before I slept, I would say this prayer: Dear Lord, I know that you are Almighty and that Your mercy has no ends. Please turn your gracious gaze towards my existence and help me wake up early. This worked a hundred per cent. I would wake up at three in the morning, and I wouldn’t sleep again until midnight. This felt cool, I could do so many things. One morning, I finished a 150 pages chemistry booklet in just one morni...