“…Becoming Something requires unwavering commitment to the cause, and this is the year that I will do everything on my B.Y.E (Best Year Ever) list. I mean, I have to- otherwise the whole university experience will have been wasted on me, because I will have learnt nothing and grown very little…”
That was before I started the first semester.
Now, it’s a week into the second semester, and I feel like I was just being so, so, so naive about the whole university thing back then: it has not been easy.
Leave aside the workload (because- let’s face it- complaining about the reams and reams of reading, and the lectures, and the ridiculous assignments we all have to do doesn’t help), and still you’ll find that the average university student (and the latest results revealed just how “average” I was) has quite a lot to deal with.
Each morning I get up, make sure I look presentable, and step out of res hoping “today- today will be the day that things go right, and I feel like my life is actually going somewhere”.
Of course, things seldom go right. But I’m still here- and I’m taking that as a sign that there are good things to come. Maybe not this week, and maybe not this year. But they will. (I hope). Then I’ll know why I put myself through all this everyday.
So here’s to taking things one day at a time, and being realistic. It’s the only way to survive this jungle!
Nkhensani Manabe 