RMIT grad publishes scholarship guide book

RMIT grad publishes scholarship guide book

RMIT Vietnam graduate and scholarship winner Le Nguyen Thao Nguyen drew on her own experiences to write her newly published guide for other ambitious students looking to follow in her footsteps.

The 23-year-old’s book, “Đã đi thi là phải giật giải” (translation: A determination to win) , aims to be a complete guide for high school students seeking scholarships to achieve their educational dreams. She uses a mix of practical advice and examples from her own inspiring story to help point the way.

Nguyen was a student like many others in her school in An Giang province. She had reasonable grades and lacklustre English-language abilities, but she possessed a determination to go farther than most.

“You have to train yourself to think positively in this life,” she says. “If you focus on what you are doing and never give up, good things will find you.”

She decided to focus on improving her grades and committing additional time to pursuing extracurricular activities to help boost her scholarship chances. However, Nguyen figured this would not be enough to achieve her dream of a full scholarship, particularly given the talent and accomplishments of all the other students competing for the few coveted spots.

So, Nguyen took the step of developing a special scholarship application portfolio that would contain all the documents relevant to her application, including personal statements and recommendations to give those assessing her application an insight into her true personality.

The end result was a compendium of 64 A4 pages she compiled, designed, decorated, and bound into her scholarship submission. Nguyen ended the portfolio with a powerful closing statement to reinforce the goal of her efforts. She of course did achieve her dream, winning a scholarship to study a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree at RMIT Vietnam.

RMIT graduate and scholarship winner Le Nguyen Thao Nguyen. RMIT graduate and scholarship winner Le Nguyen Thao Nguyen.

It is what she learned from her own experience that she has now sought to pass on the the next generation of students through her book.

“It is really about your attitude in life,” she says. “Focusing on what you are doing means you, yourself, are clear about your goals in life and what you should do to obtain those goals.

“Then people will see you as a person who is responsible for your own life and you will probably get results,” Nguyen says.

“It doesn’t matter if those results are big or small, but you will expand your relationships which will help you on the way to making your dreams come true. That’s what I mean by ‘good things will find you’,” she says.

Story: Le Mong Thuy

01 June 2017

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