It’s that time of year again: A new academic year, a new semester. It is my favorite time of year, I feel as though I’m at the starting line of a race. I have no idea what opportunities lie ahead of me, or what I may have achieved at the end of it; but I am excited to get on my jogging shoes and start running.

As most of you may know, the first week of classes are basically just going over the syllabus and learning the foundation of what your classes may entail. Some of my classes include Communication Law, Acting, Print, Senior Seminar, and German. So far, so good. My law class seems like a lot of work, and I do feel as though it is slightly daunting. As an International student, I have no prior knowledge of the US legal system, nor the constitution. I can tell you one thing, the execution of the legal system in South Africa is most definitely not a good comparison.

Anyhow, as this is my first post, I wanted it to mainly be an introductory piece for the semester. If there is one thing I can leave you with, it’s that time flies! I cannot believe that I am already a SENIOR! I feel extremely old and it doesn’t help that my birthday was last week! If I look at myself three years ago, I was just a shy little freshman, in a new world… a university slightly more advanced than my school of less than one hundred students in Africa! It took a little bit of adjusting to, but it was well worth the effort. As Winston Aarons said at our Honors Convocation last year,

‘we are all masterpieces in progress.’