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Category: Reflections 2025
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By Samantha Levetan I’ll be honest – at times Honours has been stressful, overwhelming and pressurising.I fought hard all year to stay focused, keep my head down and get the work done,staying level-headed while pushing off a mental breakdown. Sacrificing sleep (whichI once swore to never do), social events and downtime pushed me to my…
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By Zeeka Sellidon I am currently halfway through my honours’ degree, and I can clearly say that it was nothing short of a rollercoaster. At the beginning of the year, I was filled with so much anxiety right before enrolling and had so many unanswered questions that only experience would allow me to answer. I…
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By Buntu Mlonyeni My year as a Bioinformatics Honours student at UCT has been an incredible journey of discovery and personal growth. From the excitement of exploring cutting-edge computational biology to the satisfaction of seeing my research take shape, this experience has deepened both my technical skills and my passion for the field. What began…
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by Saba Gebreseilassie My honours year started with the amazing news that my application to the BMedSci (Hons) in Neuroscience at UCT was successful. I had received a conditional offer last year, but that was not enough for my heart to rest. With various other responses coming in asynchronously, some positive and some negative, the…
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By: Karabo Matje Shuuu! What a journey it has been. When I started my honours year, I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into. It was a rocky start, full of uncertainty, self-doubt and a lot of learning curves. I promised myself to do it, even if it meant doing it scared.…
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By Patience Shoko At the time of writing this reflection piece, I have just now completed my first semester as an honours student and what a journey its already been. Honours has been different from what I expected as a person coming straight from a BSc undergrad. The requirements for getting through honours are so…
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By Ludwick Hlongwane Coming to Cape Town to pursue an Honours degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Cape Town, Africa’s top-ranked university, has been nothing short of a dream come true. As the first in my family to reach this academic level, I carry not just my aspirations, but those of my family and…
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by Dean Brink People warned me even before I got here that honours is a monstrous year. I can see where they were coming from; honours is this terrible mixture of a year’s worth of coursework summarized in 4 months along with the first taste of an actual research project all crammed into a couple…
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By Emelinah SilindaAfter two years away from the Lab, Science, and due dates pressure, stepping into Honours felt like jumping into the deep end. Honestly, I had doubts about a lot of things; my readiness, my abilities, and whether I still had it in me. But here I am, halfway through the year, and something…
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By: Robyn-Lee ManchestHonour, best described as surviving beautiful chaos with a lab coat on. For me, moving to a new university for this intense year felt like being part of a complex experiment… only I was the test subject, and there was no control group in sight. Suddenly, I was navigating unfamiliar hallways, learning unfamiliar…
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