Follow your passion; have fun: Advice for high school grads

Follow your passion; have fun: Advice for high school grads

By Munirah Al-Fayez

KUWAIT: As graduation season approaches, many graduates are entering into a big decision-making summer. Some students are not sure what to study, while others are not sure where to study. Some students are praying every day that they get into their dream major, while others do not know what they want to major in. To help these students, Kuwait Times interviewed two current university students and one university graduate, who have chosen three very different pathways, to ask them about their experiences.

Razan Al-Habishi, a Kuwaiti student studying computer engineering at Kuwait University, said the application process was easy, especially because she had friends that were going through the same process as her. She says that she first applied to study medicine, but after a few years changed her major to Computer Engineering because she is more passionate about it, and because she is a social person who likes to maintain a work-life balance, so this decision seemed best for her in the long run. Habishi realized as the years went by that university gets harder over time, although the most difficult thing in her journey, she said, was change.

She said changing majors and moving from high school to