One of the biggest changes in my life has been the move from my remote little town in Eastern Cape to a big city such as Cape Town. It has been the most exciting, yet scary transition, because I know that this is a path which I have to take that will eventually lead me to my dreams, but the excitement is almost balanced by the horror with which we associate the university experience, as those who are ahead usually tell us.

The best part about being at the University of Cape Town is being surrounded by so many students and professionals who are into the same things that you are into–or even different. Diversity is another aspect that I find really interesting–diversity in terms of everything.

The thing that really makes it easy to breathe here, though, is how willing the lecturers are to assist. Most of us were ‘raised’ to believe that being at university is all about surviving the ‘end of the world’, which of course it sort of is, but what really matters is that it is not as if no one cares about your progress. That makes this place feel somehow ‘warmer’, but this does not imply at all that things are easy at all, because the content is challenging, and at the same time coming in at a very fast rate.

At the moment, the whole experience has been a fight to survive and adapt to the year’s pace and the depth of the content. I will hopefully find balance soon in order to maximize the benefits of this path–university.

I surely hope that I will write something more elegant soon–something from which people might actually learn.