The first kicks of living combatants

While interviewing students at the Jack labs and library asking them related questions based on being a first year at Rhodes University, and their experiences so far during the year. I have interviewed many students approximately 10 students doing different and same degrees. These students told me different stories about their first year experiences based on their academics and social networking. I find that most first years face intricate situations because of the new environment and being far away from home. There adaptation of campus standard of living was not easy, some tended to give up by dropping out and it’s because of difficulties they tend to face. My mainstream interest was to get more about their balance in academics, their social and experiences.
Out of ten of these people I interviewed six of them got g7 which that means they failed their June exams. It’s not because they don’t know how to study or they don’t have time for their books, it’s the university academic language and struggling to know how to tackle university studies. One of the students I interviewed at the jack labs was Mazithi Ntiyane who does Bcom said,” I am now coping with the university daily life compared during my early months”. Its obvious to anyone who is a first year that varsity can be very confusing and pressured.
Academically as I’ve mentioned, studies here at varsity can be extreme restless especially at first year level of experience. A Bsc first year student Siphosethu Sithela said, “I usually got confused when I first attended lecturers, now I am coping not fully but trying”. The academic path in university particularly first year only needs a soldier’s heart and patriots mind. The first year route can be tremendous or fidgety. It is not a subject to view all of my interviewees, the fact of the matter is that their stories are relevant, different, similar, but first year experiences.
The reason of naming them living combatants is because; I believe first years are very true fighters of triumph. They penetrate their own ways in varsity and become conquerors and icons even to other people surrounding them. I will end this by saying viva first years and let’s go surmount for more.