EDITOR’S LETTER
Work, Work, Work, Work. Sleep?
Kinga Siejek
I used to think that when I graduated, and started a
normal job, that I would actually have normal sleeping
hours, and weekends off.
Well, most of the time this is the case, BUT when you
deal with students, it brings back the habits of when I
was a student. Meaning working late nights, weekends,
and forgetting that my dear old body needs a couple
of hours of ZZZZs a night. Now some may think I am
complaining; but contrary to that belief, I actually love it!
(Unless I ‘m sick of course)
I love that I get to expirience these amazing events,
with the amazing residences on a daily basis. Otherwise
what would be the point of my job? Hehe.
And boy, have the residences kept me busy these last
few weeks! With Mr and Miss NWU Vaal just around the
corner, it can only mean one thing... Residence beauty
pageants!
It has been one momentous beauty pageant after another! Each residence trying to live up to their reputation
and surpass the others! While there may have been a
few hiccups with some (I mean, what event ever really
starts on time on our Campus, hehe), but putting that
aside; I have to congratulate all the residences,
especially their HKs for their organisational skills,
and hospitality. They outdid themselves this
year, and I especially can’t wait to see what other
events they are planning for the rest of the year!
To the contestants; I must first say a big congrats
to the winners of each residence! I know you will
all make your respective residences proud, in
the coming weeks. Now to all the other contestants, in my eyes, you are all winners. You signed
up and participated in an event that many other
wouldn’t even think about joining. You brought
your game, and looked amazing. Congrats to all
of you!
Between ALL the pageants that have been, and
are yet to come, I have to brag a bit about someone I recently had the priviledge to meet. Our
new Vice Chancellor, Prof Dan Kgwadi. I was invited to a dinner to meet him, with just a few other people from our awesome Campus. That was
a great night. He is by far the most laid-back VC
I have met in a while (though I haven’t met many
yet). He is very passionate about his job, and
loves students and wants only the best for them.
I managed to let him know abit about what I do,
and brag about my members, and he seemed
quite impressed. I am excited to see what changes he will bring to our University, and a breath of
fresh air. I mean, look how well Mafikeng Campus is doing, while he was the Rector there!
2 - Student 24/7
Now; I have to say my apologies to all of you who read
our dear little magazine. As you may see, it has come
out quite late this month. Trust me when I say, it was
not planned. We here at Student 24/7, have had quite
a bad month, technologically speaking, but no matter
what we perservered and brought it out!
I do have to say a BIG thank you to my two new Editors,
Bandile Mthembu and Relebohile Serobane. They have
no idea how much they have been able to help me, even
just with editing articles for the editions! You two have
been lifesavers!
Now, as I try to edit about 3 000 photos from all the beauty pageants, so far, you should keep paging through our
dear little magazine and have a bit of a read before you
go back to studying for the Semester Exams.
Semester Exams?! Is it already getting sloce to that? Mr
and Miss NWU Vaal on 9 May?! Well that’s around the
corner. Open Day?! On 17 May, hmmm, still need to do
planning for that.
I guess sleep will have to wait a few more days before
we can be well acquainted again... Oh well... At least I
know a little lack of sleep is worth it!