国际生代表畢斯瑪（Bisima）毕业典礼发言

6月21日上午，清华大学新闻与传播学院2023年毕业典礼在清华大学大礼堂举行。国际生代表畢斯瑪（Bisima）讲述了在清华求学的时光遇到的泪水、欢乐、友情和爱。她表示，清华之旅的小片段将永远作为她灵魂的一部分，帮助她在未来的道路中不断克服困难，追寻真正的自己。

以下为Bisima发言全文：

国际生代表Bisima发言 

Thank you, everyone. It's an absolute honor to be here today with the Dean of the school, guests, such prestigious faculty members, and all fellow graduates. Last year, if someone had told me that Bisma Ahmad would be graduating from the campus of Tsinghua University instead of online, I would never have believed them. This still feels like a dream to me, but even if it is a dream, this is a beautiful ending.

Studying at a renowned university with a diverse learning experience, I knew this was my chance to be the Bisma my mom believed and prayed I could be. However, this opportunity to study here on scholarship far away from my home country Pakistan did not come easy when the world was struck by the COVID-19 outbreak. People around me told me to give up and that I would never be able to graduate from the Tsinghua campus. Despite the discouraging voices around me, I believed that the ending of this significant chapter of my life was in my hands.

We have all fought untold battles within ourselves and made sacrifices and look how far we all have come, congratulations you all made it. It is up to us how we want to tell the story of our lives.

Our time at Tsinghua gave us many opportunities to grow and resources to use. It helped us shape ourselves by asking questions about who we are and what we genuinely want to be. These opportunities and resources have prepared us well to enter graduate schools or the workforce. We made friends and connections with people from all over the globe that would last a lifetime. During our time here we were privileged to be staying in the capital, the political centre of China enriched with diversity and history. In these past five months I realized how lucky we all are to have this China experience.

As we are about to enter the next probably unknow chapter of our life lets try be better versions of ourselves and while excelling in whatever we must not forget to be part of a positive change.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to our esteemed professors for their guidance, wisdom, and relentless commitment to nurturing our academic and professional growth and to the staff who worked tirelessly coordinating our lives and events

This journey ends with many tears that we might be shedding and fear of starting a new chapter of our life. Thanks to all the peers of this school who have prepared us well, but most of all, cheers to all Tsinghua memories of love, hangovers, success, and laughter that we all will forever cherish.

As I look back, I want to thank God, all professors, my family and friends for supporting me to become the proud Bisma I am today. My sister, who is sitting here today, you are my superhero.

To all of international students who are graduating today, as we all will be leaving campus soon let’s remember all dark days and good ones which helped us grow and shape our identities, in this diverse environment that the School of Journalism and Communication had to offer. We all struggled in our own ways, whether it be studying online in odd time zones while facing power failures, miserably living in a quarantined hotel or not being able to see each other, getting rejected from our dream internship but what matters is how we overcame these struggles and are here today as graduating class of 2023. Without those challenges, we wouldn't have had such inspiring yet hilarious stories to tell our future selves.

From now on we all will carry theses little pieces of this Tsinghua journey forever as part of our soul.

Thank you everyone.

文案｜Bisima

制作｜清华大学新闻与传播学院2023年毕业典礼宣传组

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审核｜陆洪磊 俞逆思