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raise arguments, critically evaluate and reflect on everything. It is being a
Teresian that taught me to always remain humble and grateful, no matter
what you’ve achieved, to treat everyone with equal kindness and love, and to
bloom with grace, wherever you’re planted. I would be lying if I told you that

my journey was always smooth. Certainly not. I have had several experiences
where the College has thrown me off the deep end, leaving me overwhelmed.
But once you’re past feeling terrified, you realise that St Teresa’s will only

do that to you after it has equipped you with everything you could possibly
need to survive and thrive in any situation. It is here, within this campus,
that I discovered my passions and my voice, articulated my thoughts, honed
my skills, and transformed myself into a version I’m proud of today. None
of this was learned overnight. It has been through years of witnessing how

efficiently and diligently the Management and our teachers function to
consistently better themselves, inspiring us students to aim scaling greater
heights.

The end of my time as a student here really feels like the end of an era that
I’ll never recapture. But that’s okay, because I will always carry a part of St.

Teresa’s whenever I go. STC for me is in the amazing people I’ve been fortunate
enough to meet here, the beautiful friendships I have grown to cherish, the
invigorating conversations I’ve held, the innumerable programmes I’ve
witnessed, participated and organised, the times I’ve put myself out there,

the mistakes I’ve made and the growth that has come out of it. It is rushing
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down to Shiney chechi’s coffee counter, it is Aji chettan, Gibi chettan and
all the other smiling faces, always ready to help. It is the roaring crowds at
Teresian week, it is the endless love I’ve received from the Dept. of English,

it is my time in the Union when I worked together with my favourite team,
it is all the speeches I’ve made on the Elysium stage, it is revelling in the
College’s commitment to the celebration of the Arts, it is our hearts welling
up on hearing the Teresian Anthem and it is acknowledging that the Fear

of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom. As I graduate, I leave with the hope
that St Teresa’s will continue to nurture and mould generations of students,
doing what it did for me.

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