Malala Yousafzai

Going to Oxford was my childhood dream, and I wanted to be

Myself, make as many friends, but I think with these titles and recognitions, like the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought I had to act differently.

And because, you know, a lot of the people who receive these titles are much older in their life and they, you know, they're usually in their 50s, 60s.

They have, you know, like a family life already established.

I received the Nobel Peace Prize when I was in my chemistry class.

So I was still a school student.

So I see it as a big responsibility.

And I always have felt that now I need to live up to the expectation.

You know, it was given for the work I had done, but it was also given for the work that that is ahead of us.

So for me now, like I have to work for the rest of my life to prove that it was well deserved.

And and for me, that is just, you know, seeing this dream of girls education becoming a reality in every part of the world.

But at the same time, I thought, OK, like, but do you have to change as a person?

Like, are you supposed to live a certain way?

In college, though, this was the first time that I allowed myself to be more of myself, to really just test it.

And to be honest, I didn't even know who I was.

Am I funny?

Am I not?

What do I enjoy?

Like, I didn't know any of that.

I have never seen boys my age.