They Did Not Do So In Vain
20 min readJan 1, 2024
Once upon a time, when we can travel freely around the world, I garnered a complimentary trip to Ireland, courtesy of University of Toronto. I was in my final year of college, completing my undergraduate studies, when I stumbled upon an essay competition hosted by the Undergraduate Awards programme based in Ireland, way back in 2014. (It has been six years?!). I was rather intrigued, so I went to their website and dived deeper:
“The Global Undergraduate Awards is the world’s leading undergraduate awards programme which recognises top undergraduate work, shares this work with a global…
