Malala Yousafzai

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2,791 appearances 13 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 28 May

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Malala Yousafzai / Oscar Isaac · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

I was socializing and I was also managing my studies as well.

I was in the end very happy with that.

Honestly, I wasn't being hard on myself, even though I wished.

In an ideal world, you want all of it.

You want to be that unicorn who's just good at everything, is getting the top grades and having a social life and getting good sleep and all of that.

But in Oxford, they tell you, you can't have it all.

You have to really choose.

And I thought...

if there's one thing I were to pick in these college years, that would be to have a social life.

I did not have friends in high school.

I had only made one friend, and that's because she fell out with her best friend.

So I just filled in the gap.

Because I was so new to the culture, even though I could communicate in English, but it wasn't my first language.

I was still speaking the textbook English.

I was still familiarizing myself with the phrases and any of these trending words that they use.

And I sort of felt like I was not cool enough to make friends.

I thought my story was very boring.

Boring?

And I thought a Nobel Prize can't get you friends.

So, yeah, and I also even at school, I ran for the head girl position because I was working really hard.

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