Interesting picture. The monument taken by itself, looks a bit centered in the frame to me. With the darkness, the monument become a band running across the middle of the frame.
The solitary individual is a nice touch, but it looks almost as if it were a disinterested by stander, facing away with arms crossed. A bit more light, would have told us more.
Perhaps it is just an illusion but the image seems to slope downwards a bit from left to right.
Overall an interesting picture, congratualtions on making the top half of the class.
Good silhouette; not being able to read the words is a bit detracting, though (or at least I can't see them). It doesn't give a lot of context for the shot