My School Life

“Being an engineer is a tough and demanding job.” My uncle said with the air of authority and knowledge of having lived it. “It requires great skill in mathematics and natural sciences. I you have taken a liking to either, aim for good engineering schools. Give it your all and come out as one of the best who can easily provide for the family. That way you can live a happy life and fulfill all your children`s wishes.” I went from being a clueless high school student asking a trusted elder for advice to a 40-ish-year-old husband enrolling my two kids into a reputed middle school.

“But I like math, should not I aim for a good college with a highly regarded math department.”

To which he responded annoyingly, “Sure, if you want to be a teacher and

But this also represents, in my opinion, what is fundamentally wrong with my society. School children are not given enough opportunities to explore themselves. Their school life almost entirely consists of going to school eight hours a day for six days a week and spent the remaining time catching up with their homework. Their whole list of extracurricular activities consists of participation in a few competitions that the school holds (which is usually around 10 activities total for the whole student body per year) and nothing else. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that every year thousands of high school graduates enter the real world with no idea about what they want to be. So, when they receive the same advice I received from trusted adults, they get lost in the rapidly growing

I want to help students, from early as middle school level, expand their horizons and find their passions. I want to assist them to find their identity and ensure that their future need not be set in stone. And above all else, I aspire to give everyone a chance to chase their dream and help them see that walking a different path does not necessarily mean that people will fall off of some random cliffs. I want to guarantee that they do not end up being regarded as just another brick in the wall. (And I mean this literally, over seven thousand students recently took the entrance exam to reserve their place among the 250 students in the country`s most reputed engineering school.)

After my time at Drexel and when I return to Nepal, I will launch an organization with the purpose of increasing inter-school communication and also establishing a connection between these schools and other athletic, social service, or research institutes. This way, I feel, the students will be able to expose themselves to the real world from an early