Evelyn Annette Kanyunyuzi will walk out of the UCU gate on October 2 with her head high.
She is poised to graduate with a first class degree in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Kanyunyuzi scored a G.P.A of 4.55 but this did not come easy for a student who had to deal with the horror of a dead semester during her tenure.
"In my second year I failed to register on time and I got a dead semester," she said.
She failed to beat the deadline not because she did not have the money, but because she was sick.
"It was a combination of factors, first I was sick and before I would recover my mother who had come to nurse me got a fracture which almost claimed her life," she said.
And because of that the registration deadline skipped her mind.
To many this would probably be the end of the road but to Kanyunyuzi, it was just another life challenge.
She managed to transform her frustration into success and this she did by trusting in God, commitment to her work and remaining focused to her goal.
Although she will be graduating with a first class degree, Kanyunyuzi says the dead semester affected her performance.
"If I had continued with my classmates I would have performed better," she said.
To recover her lost semester, Kanyunyuzi had to sit in class with the lot below her own, because she did not join with them it was not easy to cope and find suitable discussion groups.
To manage, Kanyunyuzi says she drew motivation from last semester's theme "Living a purposefully driven life in difficulty and failure."
No wonder, she clearly remembers the day Rev Fredrick Baalwa preached and the topic, 'don't despair.'
"That sermon helped rejuvenate my hope in life," she said
Kanyunyuzi is married, a mother to four and a nursing officer at Mulago hospital. She had to juggle the three with her academic work.  
As a little girl she says she dreamt of becoming a nurse like her mother.
And this dream came true in 1992 when she was enrolled as a midwife in Masaka hospital. She went on to acquire certificates in midwifery (Mulago) and nursing (Rubaga). 
Kanyunyuzi believes that with her current qualifications she is armed with the necessary skills to advocate for policies rather than just playing the implementation role.
Even though she will be a lone graduate from her course she will walk with her head high.