Fadil Noble

Student

“My concern is that, as a country, we superficially classify everybody and that leads to intellectual segregation.”

“I’d like to see a Humanitarian Party take over this country,” says Fahil Noble who’s in the Scholars program at SMC. “We’re always in each others faces here and it’s ironic that we seem to be judged favorably according to how greedy we are. We’re taught to always put ourselves first,” Fadil continues, “which leads to disrespect. But if we all put ourselves in other people’s shoes more often, we’d be making more positive moves towards a more peaceful world.”

Fadil is an internationalist at heart who seems to know nearly everyone at SMC. “I have friends here from all cultures,” he says. “They’re from CLUE, MeCHA, BSU, the Phillipino Club. And I love being in touch with them all.” Though he’s in English at SMC, he reports “I plan to go into psychology and law simultaneously. Everybody tells me it’s going to be hard,” he says. “But my life is always hard and I guess I’ve kind of become addicted to hard things. But there’s really no trick to it,” he continues. “All you have to do is apply yourself. And, of course, work like crazy.”

Fadil is testing his courtroom and psychological skills in a class he’s currently enrolled in at SMC. “I’m in the Scholars philosophy class and it’s a real study of the mind,” he says. “I’m always debating in that class so it’s actually a little like arguing in a courtroom.” Fadil plans to transfer, not to the Sorbonne, but to UCLA. “I want to stay close to home because I’m afraid of going abroad,” he says with a laugh. “And ‘abroad’ to me doesn’t mean England or France. It means anywhere outside this state!” The world will have to find its way to Fadil.

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