With aGPA 4.86, Elina Jassy Mugisha was the overall best student of the third part of the 11th graduation at UCU. The Bachelor of Industrial Fine Art and Design (BIFA) top student of the 2010 class says, her success was an answer to a prayer that she made to God.

“I asked God to give me a chance to excel and for his counsel to go with me as I helped others,” she said with an affirming tone.
She also attributes her growth in knowledge and research, the very things she loves, to Honours College.
“I read on the notice board that there was a discussion on the seven habits of highly effective people in Honours College,” she narrated her journey to the College adding that she  thought the place was a book club.
It was while there that Dr. Opol told her about the place, that Mugisha applied to join the leadership development college of the university.
Though Elina was not on any form of scholarship, even after joining the Honours College, she took part in all activities and also participated in writing papers that are required of every member.
Elina has been an artist since childhood.  She grew to love her talent and purposed to develop it even though her parents did not approve of her doing it for a living.
 “I knew that I was doing this for me and not for my parents and so when I failed to do architecture at university because of my grades, I diverted my mind to interior designing, which I could only do through BIFA,” she said.
She hopes to upgrade her degree with Masters in Environment Conscious Interior design.    
 “We have a God – given duty to take care of the environment and we will not go unquestioned about this,” she says. She hopes to produce work that is environment friendly and sensitise people of the cause through her work.
To those still at university, she advises, “do what you must do and not what you want because feelings are sometimes misplaced.” She says, everyone must know the social, economic and political challenges and find a way of easing the burden in life
In the next five years, she hopes to have saved enough to have a village home, free from pollution, pursue her career and also get involved in ministry.
“The world is ending; life has treasures like hope, love, faith and kindness. We should go after them because they are more important than anything else in life,” she says.