Final Blog Post – What POL100 Brought To The Table of Intellect.

POL 100 has been unarguably the most enlightening experience I have had in my two years at LUMS. The reason: it has been atypical. Unlike most other courses at LUMS, it offered a chance to interact with knowledge instead of periodic preparation of certain parts of the reading material. It has been an experience wherein knowledge was absorbed, processed, contextualized and created. Unlike most other facilitators, POL100’s spearhead, Nausherwan Hafeez, has played the role of an educator instead of a mere instructor; he has been a teacher instead of a tutor. This course provided, and sometimes forcefully ensured, an interaction with uncomfortable ideas. Most importantly, it provided a classroom brimming with energy and a knowledge space whose stakeholders were engrossed in its ownership. The students in this course have been sincerely committed to knowledge in addition to the security of a letter grade. All this has collectively made POL100 my most valuable and treasured academic experience at LUMS so far and my most intellectually exciting endeavor in a society where ideas are considered either irrelevant, dangerous or reserved for people beyond their youth. For that I am grateful to everybody who has been a small yet significant part of creating this dynamic that has honestly led to a development of my ability to process stimuli and understand complexity.