Page 11 - ASC Newsletter - Spring 2021-22

OUR NOT-SO-LITTLE GIRL IS

GRADUATING!

Hello readers! This is Tasneem. I am a 5th-year “We are happy and proud of our little girl
architecture student, and I am graduating this who has grown fast in a blink of an eye,
semester. I have been part of the ASC for 3 we are also curious about the future
years and it has been one of the best things I and looking forward to what’s coming
experienced since I started my university next. We wish you good luck, and we
journey, as I volunteered with them to be a pray that you graduate with the high
peer mentor, peer tutor, and as a course grades you worked hard for, fulfill your
assistant. When you come to think of it, as dreams, have a stunning future, and
our university journey comes to an end, so design amazing projects”.
does our parents’ journey in helping and
supporting us to graduate and reach the top. Hearing those words from my parents
We should take into consideration their made me realize that my success is
feelings just as much as ours. Therefore, I theirs as much as it is mine. No words
decided to interview my parents and dive into can describe how much I thank my
how they are feeling about their child parents for everything they did and are
graduating. still doing. Their support, guidance, and
prayers were the keys that helped me
When I asked my parents to tell you about me continue my journey.
they said: “We can see you as a cooperative,
kind-hearted person who is open to new “Many thanks goes to the supportive and
changes, challenges, and opportunities”. They lovely family of the Academic Success
believe that I have grown since I started at Center, who taught me a lot and made
ADU and that I learned how to multi-task, as I my journey at ADU more special.”
was experiencing more group work,
presentations, and stressful situations to deal
with and that I have grown mentally and
gained more intellectual and interpersonal – Tasneem Elmandouh
skills.