Waiting for my university to pop up in the scandals with funding from the US. We all knew which puppets were given masters degrees and phds to become key players in their home countries. They were funded by the Bill and Melinda gates foundation, UN funding programs and some other USAID related funds/projects. The entire branch of water governance, water law and some other departments were built specifically to control resources of countries across the globe.

Because I was one of the few self funded students and in the coastal and port engineering department I had a different view on this uni. We were actually preparing to build and improve stuff across the globe… We were with multiple self funded students from engineering backgrounds across the globe. The university that once was there to improve the planet on water related engineering topics became a political control centre.

For my graduation thesis I was asked for multiple projects. The study i was most interested in, sea level rise in São Tomé had a prescribed outcome. So I couldn’t get myself to work towards an outcome I was not in line with. So I decided to graduate in China. On the largest lock system mankind has ever built. A capacity analysis it was. Loved it. But learning through working with and for governments or large bureaucratic organizations makes you see corruption everywhere. The only solution is splitting money from state. https://youtu.be/KDnoYmHiD2Q