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“My name is Ithu and I’m a closet couch potato”. That’s my confession, and in my closet it should remain. For the duration of your time at this post, you will get a sneak peak into this closet… if you dare. To be completely fair to myself, I must mention that I am not the conventional couch potato. The couch is my bed, the television is my laptop and the bag of popcorn is usually Kellogg’s Coco

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“Techno cripple” has been used to describe my inability to successfully engage technology. I grew up in a household where we were equipped with the basics to function but not at the level of the techno boffins who have wed the web. I was born in the information age but have a strong feeling that I was drastically misplaced. The point of all this is that when the amusing duo i.e. our lecturers

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Hay AniqueHomesickness was something that almost brought my university experience to a grinding halt. I wasted each week because my eyes were permanently focused on the weekend where I could rush into the comforting arms of my family and friends. I never talked about my issues to fellow students and because of this I struggled to make close connections, which further stunted my growth. Before I

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Choosing Cynicism over Naivety?I’m a budding young feminist. Believe me when I say I know how easy it is to let past experiences turn you into a man-bashing relationship cynic. You may not be that far-gone yet, but you seem well on your way. Even though I hardly know you, we have a lot more than I can say in common and I’d hate to see you become what I just escaped.Sex - indubitably a common

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It was such a relief to find this blog and to see that I am not the only one shaking my head in despair at the ignorant fashion of youth. On many occasions I have resisted the urge to intervene when overhearing a group of students expressing their disgust at the conflict in the Middle East, saying, “Its like sssooo sad, I would like never support something like that” while ignorantly twirling the

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NichIt is a relief to know that I am not the only one shaking my head in despair at the ignorant fashion of youth. On many occasions I have resisted the urge to intervene when overhearing a group of students expressing their disgust at the conflict in the Middle East, saying, “Its like sssooo sad, I would like never support something like that” while ignorantly twirling the knots of their

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Living Oprah: True confessions?#links#links#links Oprah has had her show going for ages and has her fare share on anti-oprah fans. The part about her not being judgemental is suspect at times since she, on many of her episodes,leads her view to be on her side. Any way your blog highlight one of the biggest highlights of being a couch potato so you should check us out on ours.

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We have a national duty to be responsible citizens – or so they tell us. The young people of Generation F(acebook) are expected to be more than just young couch potatoes comfortably perched on the certainty and predictability of their lives. We are supposed to be opinionated about more than our buddy’s latest photo album displayed on the Facebook news feed. Taking a vocal stand about the

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Every movie or book written about universities and colleges highlights the social scene and everyday relationships between girls and guys. Girls are depicted as the perfect female specimen with no flaws and are dressed in the latest fashion and boys drive the hottest cars and act like they own the world and can do what they want. The sad thing is that people do not realize that the universities

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First year students are being exposed to a debate that has been raging for some time now; that of the present day student when compared to the student of yester year. The students of today are not failures when compared to the students of yester years. From the continuous strikes and riots that took place almost for the whole year at the NWU, Mafikeng Campus to the students who are linked to

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A student stands up during a journalism lecture and shouts above the noise, “I did not get up this early to come to this lecture and listen to trivial student issues”, only to be hotly shot down by another student confidently retorting, “It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that if you want to hear you must sit in the front”.This incident was immediately followed by a student attempting to

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You may be wondering about the funny photo comic below. Well, it is our new journalism assignment that has given us many grey hairs but even more smiles. Our task was to make a comic that portrays issues of university life, using whatever you thought would bring your message across most effectively. The creative doors were thrown wide open and hopefully you can see that we grabbed this

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I thought I would give you a few interesting facts about mumps as its is the reason why I am bored and bed ridden. Mumps is a disease caused by a virus that usually spreads through saliva and can infect many parts of the body, especially the parotid salivary glands. These glands, which produce saliva for the mouth, are found toward the back of each cheek, in the area between the ear and jaw. In

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We diligent couch potatoes present our next assignment to you, which we have worked on with the force of a hundred potatoes. It involved doing profiles on four first year students who we identified as a hero, survivor or villain. After a quick common room session on our favourite couch we decided that we would profile four stereotypes…but the fact is there are no stereotypes at Rhodes, yes there

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Hey guys take a look at this...You never know whos watching!!!!

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“My name is Precious – excuse the pun”, are the first words she utters to people when she first meets them. More often than not, the infectiously cheery smile that accompanies the words is enough to eradicate the idea of having ever not known her. Strangers she knows none and everyone’s her friend. Now isn’t that simply precious?Precious Lungile Fatyela is a young diva in the making, whose 21

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Ashleigh describes herself as a spoilt brat who throws tantrums when she doesn't get her way. This helped her achieve everything she wanted in her school years. She was always part of the popular group and developed a serious interest in boys and partying. She decided to come to Rhodes to become more independent and receive a solid tertiary education, which would allow her to become a success in

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The desire to scream occurs to most that go to varsity, but for some it is a way to express their passion. One of the T-shirts owned by Robyn Johnson is of the famous Evard Munch, 1893, painting called "The Scream". Mainly people that follow the art world would know about the painting. it depicts a figure with their hands on their cheeks letting out an what you‘d think is a loud scream from the

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“Everyone around me was happy, manically happily, as if I was at some freak show, except that I was the freak because I was the only one crying”, laughs Tyreen Ragadu, a first year journalism student, as she nervously curls her black painted finger nails through her scarf. Tyreen, one of the winners of the Steve Biko writing competition and who received an impressive aggregate for a film and

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Dear younger and naïve KaraboFirst year was the year you became legal, the year most of your friends back home in Pretoria said was to be the beginning of the never ending party. Funny, at varsity it could be like that if you do not watch yourself. One thing though that really got to you was ‘the first year spread’- okay well the opposite of the spread that is. The way people went on about it was

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Hello my little friend, I thought I would write to you and give you some helpful pointers that I wish someone had given me. This is the time in your life were you will learn and grow my advice to you is to get involved in as much as possible you only experience first year once. You will notice that drinking is a major factor at Rhodes and it is hard to find a balance between partying and working.

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Hey LadyHow are you? Shucks, you’ve been on my mind a lot lately. I hope you’re doing well. I was flipping through some old photo albums today when I came across a sepia photo of you and the sisters, taken when you were hardly a year old. It made me realise just how much you’ve grown, and inspired me to share some of my thoughts with you.You’ve become quite the young lady over the past few months

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Dear Rice I am always watching you and have seen you suffering but have also witnessed your ability to laugh at yourself and your situations. There is not one situation that you haven’t eventually giggled at, so I think it is high time that you start chuckling at your homesickness. Remember those endless nights where someone would knock on your door, but you feared that if you opened it your

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This is our first time online, Yay!!!

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