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The Best Advice

I Got From a Professor

William Shakespeare is the world’s most famous writer. Two of his major works are “Hamlet” & “Henry V”.
Every writer, whether they want to admit it or not, tries and fails to surpass those two markers of human
creativity and wordsmithing and that is why I think it would be more than appropriate to take creative
freedom and adapt it to try to describe the lessons I learned from Dr. Deenaz Kanji, one of my favorite
people in the world and teacher of one of the first few courses I ever took at ADU:

To do, or not to do, that is the question

Whether it’s nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of existence,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressors’ wrongs, The pains of rejection,

The law’s delay, the insolence of office,

And the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When they might initiate it’s end with the point

Of shaped steel? Who would bear the burden?

To grunt and sweat under heavenly bodies

If it weren’t for those springs.

The springs that take shape in service to one and all,

The fortunes acquired

Known to all but also none. It puzzles the mind,

And makes those ills we bear

Wind under our wings

And so, a resolution Is formed,

The game is afoot.

Rashed Ahmed
ASC Member

Abu Dhabi University | ASC Highlights 24-25 Spring 24-25