Maryam Baqir
MBBS Class of 2013
“Respected Chancellor and members Board of Trustees, distinguished guests, esteemed faculty, dear parents, graduates, ladies and gentlemen, “Assalam Alaikum”.
I welcome you all on behalf of the graduating class of 2013 – a class of intelligence, compassion, extreme good looks – and now a class of doctors, nurses and educationalists. It is a separate thing though, that while our parents believe in our ability to treat backaches, persistent headaches and nagging coughs, rest assured that after five years of studies, we can still do none of those things.
But what we can do is look around and honour the family, spouses and friends who supported us, the colleagues who laboured, walked and laughed with us and the teachers whose endearing souls transferred passion from one heart to another.
I’d also like to thank Mr. Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge – the guy who discovered caffeine. Mr. Runge, I may not have pronounced your name correctly, but without you, Sir, we would have never been able to graduate.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it took me nearly a week to memorize the titles of the various disciplines we were taught in 1st year; there was anatomy, physiology, microbiology, statistics, biochemistry and a class called histology which none of us ever studied for. I remember leafing through my text books, gaping at the size of the content and wishing if the earth could swallow me.
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