Dear first year students, I welcome you all to the University of Dar es Salaam and School of Law in particular. I congratulate you for having been selected to study at the oldest Faculty (School) of Law of the oldest University in Tanzania. I believe you will not disappoint your parents, guardians, teachers etc. whose efforts and sacrifices made you realise your dream to join the University. You were selected out of a very competitive process that involved more than 6,000 applicants. It is, indeed, your time to demonstrate that you did not get this chance by accident but because you deserved it.