Dear Freshers, a degree is not a destination


ACROSS the country, thousands of young Malaysians are step-ping into university lecture halls for the first time. There will be orientation progra-mmes, new friendships, photo-graphs with proud parents and inevitably, the familiar ques-tion: “What are you studying?”

Perhaps we should ask a different question: What kind of person do you hope to become?

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