TruthAboutLies101

Dear 18 years, five months and 11days old Khatija:

As an eager grade 12 student presented with a variety of institutions, the time finally comes for you to take the first step – filling out the application forms, you wait… After a few weeks you get a response that declares, “Congratulations! You’ve been accepted to study towards a Bachelor of Journalism degree”. You get the handbook, the letters and the guide, what you don’t get beforehand is the exciting pile waiting on your desk as you arrive. It’s the student newspaper, society hotspot guide and University lingo you don’t get told, that you really want to know about.
It’s a wise idea to wait…before you launch into choosing societies that is. Why? Societies personified are like salespeople; they target newcomers, advertise their product everywhere and throw in a complimentary t-shirt to sweeten the deal on Societies Evening. Understandably universities offer so much more than what high school ever did so it’s easy to get carried away - but don’t end up joining 20 societies at once. At this point you may be wondering, “why the big deal about societies?” I’ll tell you, it’s September and I have dropped half the societies I joined because of the heavy workload (yes it does start in first year!). As fun as the societies are with all the fancy “cheese and wine evenings,” they demand a lot of your time. My seven-month-later-advice would be to wait at least a couple of weeks before choosing societies. This is because you’ll only know what’s potting with your timetable and what free time you’ll have much later in the year.
Don’t take the bait, wait, then participate.

Signing off with blessings
19 years and 24 days old Khatija