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Continue reading →: The Importance of Staring out the Window
This article is reposted from The School of Life. We tend to reproach ourselves for staring out of the window. You are supposed to be working, or studying, or ticking off things on your to-do list. It can seem almost the definition of wasted time. It seems to produce nothing,…
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Continue reading →: I found my second passion this year
by Masilo Matlakala As an intercalated honours/MBCHB student, I had a lot of doubt coming into the year. Some of this doubt came from the fact that I was adding one more year to my tertiary education and moving into a completely new career path besides the one I intended…
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Continue reading →: Stressed, Depressed But Trying My Best
by Raqeeba Kassiem As my honours year comes to a close, I can honestly say that my postgraduate experience has given me a taste of what the research world is really like. It’s helped me figure out what I like and don’t like. Whenever I tried to explain my field of…
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Continue reading →: The Beginning of the End: Reflections on my academic year
By Anele Bovu Reflecting on my year as a Bioinformatics student, I can say it’s been a journey of growth, learning, and self-discovery. At the start, I was a mix of nerves and excitement. I was excited about diving deeper into the field and exploring the real-world applications of data…
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Continue reading →: Alcohol Stops your Brain Growth Superpower; Can We Stop It?
By Dakola Ratshivhombe
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Continue reading →: Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
by Mpai Mollo At the beginning of the semester, I wrote down a list of the expected outcomes of my Honours project. I added this to the list I had made at the beginning of the year of things that I hoped to achieve by the end of the year.…
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Continue reading →: WHAT A JOURNEY!
By Funeka Tyholo This year has been nothing short of a rollercoaster! Starting an entire degree in just one year felt intimidating at first, I went from doubting whether I could actually do it, to feeling capable, yet still questioning if I was doing enough. Reflecting on this academic year,…
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Continue reading →: From Blissful Ignorance to Bacterial Warfare
by Anja van der Merwe This year in honours has been a saga, starring me, as naïve as can be, a bunch of proteomics data that decided not to cooperate, and a stubborn colony of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra that seems to sense my fear and simply refuses to grow. My…
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Continue reading →: Beyond the Books: A Journey of Personal Growth and Meaningful Connections
By Diamante Ngoie As the academic year comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on everything that this journey has brought me. It has been a year of incredible personal and academic growth, full of challenges, lessons, and meaningful relationships that have impacted me in ways I did not…
