My Parents’ Dream Came True

I Am a Master’s Student in the UK and This is How I Made It Alone

Nickson Joram
8 min readSep 28, 2022

I’ve landed in my dream country today. And this story is to share how it all happened.

It was 2019 when I got the first chance to visit the UK to do an internship in my favorite machine, the UAV, and the application of Image Processing, and Machine Learning in UAV-involved missions.

Due to the lack of support, I had to give up an incredible opportunity that could open a door once again for my postgraduate studies in the same lab with the same supervisor after my undergraduate studies.

Years passed and once again, my parents asked me about my idea of doing postgraduate studies abroad, especially in the UK.

I was working in Virtusa Corporation, one of the leading companies in Sri Lanka. I started to look for Consultant Firms that do the business of guiding students to pursue academics outside of Sri Lanka.

To be honest, I didn’t feel impressed with all the famous consultation firms as their responses didn’t give me a good sense. And some small firms were money motive and their websites even had…

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