Princeton Student and swimmer, Adlai Pappy, shows that academics and extramural activities can go hand in hand.photo from<www.priceton.edu>



Your guide through "the best years of your life"(Tertiary)



Okay now that you are finding yourself and have started to figure out what it is you want to do (As an activity when you are not busy studying) A few options are available for you to sink your novice hands into.First I will list potential activities for you that will certainly aid you in figuring out who you want to be remembered as when 15 to 25 years from now your offspring happens to find him or herself in this very varsity and is trying to track down the legacy you left as a student here at UJ; Don't be silly, if you are marvelling at the technology that exists now, than imagine what stands to be invented about twenty years from now.With that said, i wish you would think carefully about the shenanigans you get up to whilst you are a student, because your kids might bump into it in the future!Now, allow me to short list the activities you can dabble in.First you can be the,

.The sport star-Whether its in Rugby, Soccer,Cricket or any other recognisable sport, you are bound to leave some sort of a legacy; whether it is good or bad is up to you. And the second option available  is that of being,

.The top student-Now first of all I should let you know that if you happen to choose to live out your years in varsity as this type of guy or girl,then you must be ready to let go of your inner party animal and be ready to address the librarian and the library assistants on a first name basis.Don't worry, your friend's parents will love you to bits,but I doubt whether this will make you 'cool' with guys or girls.Thirdly we have ,

.The hustler-Now all this means is that you could be the go to guy or girl for everything, whether its the latest soft-ware that will turn  you into a geek's best friend ,fashionable goods sold at knocked down rates or Textbooks that no one can get hold of at the school's bookshops or tickets to the hottest shows at the school's theatre.At number four we have

.The jack of all trades-Now this guy/girl has got to be the coolest, simply because he/she is part of the schools athletics team, he/she is also part of the debating team and also a journalist in the schools newspaper.But the best thing about him/her is simply the fact that everyone wishes they were him/her.Jokes aside if you need help with balancing your academic and social life then please pop a visit to this site.

http://www.mycollegesuccessstory.com/academic-success-tools/college-life-balance.html

In summing up I wish to stress that only you can make school the most profitable experience ever, and American academic and Philosopher W.E.B Du bios somes it up well when he says,

“The function of the university is not simply to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilisation.”