News Malala Yousafzai Marks Her First Lecture at Oxford with Touching Tweet By Brandi Fowler Brandi Fowler Instagram Website In addition to her extensive fashion, lifestyle, and beauty coverage for InStyle, Brandi has worked as a writer and editor for E! Online, a fashion and lifestyle writer for Hello! US, an editor/on-camera host for AOL, contributing writer and red carpet correspondent for Variety and Cosmopolitan, and has also served as the Hollywood correspondent for Australia's 9News' TheFIX. Her editorial features can also be found on Vitruvi, MTV News, Madame Noire, Hello Beautiful and more covering fashion, beauty, lifestyle, travel, and entertainment news. Her articles have been syndicated by the likes of Health, Marie Claire, Essence, Shape, Yahoo!, People, and more. InStyle's editorial guidelines Updated on October 9, 2017 @ 06:15PM Pin Share Tweet Email After kicking off the school year at Oxford University, Malala Yousafzai reflected on how hard she had to fight to get there as she attended her first class. "5 years ago, I was shot in an attempt to stop me from speaking out for girls' education. Today, I attend my first lectures at Oxford," the 20-year-old Pakistani activist tweeted Monday, along with a photo of her laptop and three philosophy books titled "Logic." Within hours of the tweet, over 112,000 people retweeted her message and over 354,000 people liked it. Thousands of followers congratulated her again in the comments, calling her an "inspiration" and a "beacon of hope." Malala Yousafzai Spent Her Birthday Fighting for Girls’ Education in Iraq Her brother, Khushal Yousafzai, also commented, writing, "Sorry for being a headache for the last 5 years. So grateful you are still with us. Ik (I know) you miss me but i am coming to oxford in 2years." The Nobel Peace Prize winner, who advocates for women's education, was shot in the head on the way home from school by the Pakistani Taliban in 2012 after writing an anonymous blog for the BBC about life under their rule. We're wishing her the best on her journey through Oxford as well.