Fatih Şahin Фатіх Шахін Ukraine, business and international experience — since 2004
National Days & Anniversaries

Knowledge Day 2025

The first of September, and the year I finished an MBA in the same city where I once arrived unable to read the street signs.

Ambassador Brink visits renovated school, Bohdanivka, Ukraine on July 24, 2024
Photo: usembassykyiv · Public domain

Happy Knowledge Day.

This one has a symmetry I did not plan. I arrived in this city in 2004 as a student who could not read a street sign, and this year I finished an MBA here — the same city, a classroom again, twenty-one years later, looking at business and economics from the other side of a career.

Going back to study as an adult is a peculiar experience. You are slower at some things and considerably faster at others. You have opinions, which is occasionally useful and frequently a nuisance to the person teaching you. And you finally understand why the professors in 2004 were so insistent about the fundamentals.

To everyone starting today at any age: it is worth it. Especially if you are doing it later than everyone around you. I recommend it.

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