dear Cambridge thank you for giving me time and space to think thank you for energizing my mind
by surrounding me with bright and brilliant people when I went to Cambridge and listen
to lectures describing to me how many frogs or how many birds that were and it was astonishing
Cambridge makes people grow and challenges them in a way like know the place I can imagine I've
already felt like I won the lottery when I was admitted because I think it opened
up just a set of opportunities frankly life outcomes they're out of other men otherwise
been completely inaccessible to me Cambridge is an amazing environment in which there are people
knowledgeable in all kinds of areas and skilful in all kinds of techniques Cambridge provides
me the opportunity to work with the brightest and the best as a teacher it allows me to engage with
young people with agile Minds and yet with the ability to dig deep Cambridge is quite small and
the density of great minds is so high my best friends were from South Africa Argentina people
from all over the world and there was one thing we all had in common is we were all intellectually
curious in Cambridge I was really welcomed with open arms and people said that if you have the
passion for the field and if you have a bright mind you can just learn everything else do you
know the other thing of I arrived as a boy and left as a man but um that was true of me really
I had a fantastic time at Cambridge and I'm so grateful for the student ships that allowed me
to study there I had a lot of questions about who who I was the place I was from and Cambridge gave
me the space to just really explore that the idea that Erasmus and Byron Newton's Milton Wordsworth
is Darwin we're all walking the same streets climbing the same steps it's a magical feeling
Cambridge needs to be bold in pursuing its mission it needs to demonstrate that it's
increasingly open to diverse talent that it's at the forefront of innovation and discovery
and that it can understand explain and adapt to the social and economic realities of our own era
I want Cambridge to be a university that does not only reflect the society it serves but one
that makes it better we're still at risk that a very small group of people could either through
bio terrorism nuclear weapons or some cyber attack caused huge damage one of the great
problems facing the world is a generation of energy it has caused so much problems with the
production of carbon dioxide and yet we only used one five hundredth part of the amount of
energy which comes from the Earth's own I think Cambridge should go all out to attract the best
and brightest students from all around the world I think Cambridge should be in conversation with
more schools about the environment that has been cultivated here about the interests and
identities of different colleges I think that's something everyone could benefit from with the
knowledge I've gained at Cambridge I think I want to teach and pass that knowledge on Cambridge has
an enormous reputation in Asia it is one of the most trusted names right at the very top but this
also places on Cambridge a heavy responsibility a responsibility to continue being a light to a
world that is darkening in many places I think I would get all the academics to come together
and build a time machine because it would make my life as a historian much much better but actually
we're also really really enrich our understanding of the world around us it'd be really fun dear
world yours Bill Gates yours David Attenborough yours Joshi or yours Johnson yours Joe Jay yours
ishwor yours George the poet yours Cambridge yours Cambridge yours Cambridge yours Cambridge