Kuwaiti student Mishary Al-Rashed delivers graduates’ speech at UCLA

  • Date: 22-Jun-2022
  • Source: Kuwait Times
  • Sector:Education
  • Country:Kuwait
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Kuwaiti student Mishary Al-Rashed delivers graduates’ speech at UCLA

LOS ANGELES: Kuwaiti student Mishary Khaled Al-Rashed affirmed that although Kuwait is a small country in terms of geographical size, it is large in the ambition of its youth. This occurred in his speech at the commencement ceremony of the department of physics and astronomy at UCLA, one of the top 10 universities in the world and the number 1 public university in the United States. Rashed graduated Magna Cum Laude with the highest honor in Physics and a minor in mathematics. He was the only Kuwaiti student in the Physics department.

Rashed had opened his speech by thanking the chair professor, students, and faculty staff, and congratulating the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy Class of 2022. “I am truly grateful for this opportunity to speak here today not only representing the people and the department that I have grown to love so much but also as a proud student from Kuwait,” he said.”

“While I am proud to be a student of UCLA, I am equally proud to be representing my country Kuwait, a country small in its geographic size but large in the ambition of its younger generation,” he said in his speech. “Shoot for the stars, the sky