Being a postgraduate student in MSc Money, Banking, and Finance is a huge thing for me. I have learned a lot academically and pushed myself to limits that I couldn’t have thought of. While I am still in the Summer term, I feel like the year has already passed since there are no more lectures to attend and no engagements with my colleagues and friends as we used to in the Lent term and the Michaelmas term. And since my programme doesn’t have a dissertation, I felt low-key lonely.

However, I tried to think differently. Being in love with financial markets, having good experience in that domain before, and capitalising on what I have learned in MBF, I started a YouTube channel called InvestSmart English & Arabic in which I dissect investment concepts into easy bits to digest as well as informing my viewers of the latest economic news especially in the US two times a week. This channel, while a crazy idea, I believe it could lead somewhere. This somewhere could be having a job in the finance sector in the UK, improving my communication and representation skills, developing discipline, or just having an output in an organised form, but most importantly, it will lead to somewhere.

While doing so, I don’t neglect the fact that my main focus is to continue searching for graduate jobs in the financial sector in the UK or even Europe. And I am adding layers of sports to those tasks to mix some excitement and adrenaline, such as playing football on Wednesdays with the graduate college and going to the gym three times a week.

Lastly, I applied for a student exchange program provided by Lancaster University and got accepted into the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH, to study for the next term, which starts in September in Norway.

So I take that back. I am not low-key lonely. On the contrary, I feel appreciated, productive, contented, and full of hope and support from everybody around me.

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