YaadRoc Magazine #3 | Page 29

Assembly Hall and Chancellor Hall *laughs* even though they say we are a bit ‘cocky,’ thats confidence, but moving on block Dynamite and meeting alot of new persons, my fellow bock brothers. It has been a wonderful experience; college, it is one of the best experiences you will have, so every child should go to college. Did you have any bad experiences that are memorable? Yes!! Currently my GPA is at 3 because i made one of the greatest mistakes in my UWI life in first year, where i opted to do a minor in International Relations, doing 3 second year courses in first years and then i failed one, the grades were good in the other two, but that has led to somewhat of a fall in my GPA. I’m getting A’s in CARIMAC and i go over there wanted to match something good with my degree, and i did an experiment and failed, so my advice is to know what you are getting yourself into. Give us your personal advice on how to survive college? The first one is ‘mek sure you have a tin a mackerel’ because sometimes when your hungry and you cant bother to go in the kitchen and cook alot of stuff: tin mackerel. Secondly time management, you need to know what you are oing, how you are doing it and when you are going to do it. Thirdly you need to socialize, they say ‘isolation brings destruction,’ so you need to socialize and get to know persons around you because at the end of the day it will come in handy and also volunteer, you cant lose, you are at college for three years and if you can volunteer you can get much needed experience at the end of the day. Also build links and build your network, so that at the end of the three years you don’t need to be searching for a job, you want employers to be approaching you. Also participate in sports and activities on campus How do you have fun on campus? Despite popular belief i enjoy being alone, sometimes i would just be in my room reading or watching something. While other times as guild councillors we are out there at events, because like every weekend there is an event, so we would be at these events supporting our fellow councillor’s initiatives and liming and typical stuff as in play ball, those are some of the things that i do, and other random stuff. What are some influences students will meet upon in college and how do you suggest they manage these influences? Well you have a lot of influences you have the alcohol influence, the drugs influence and you also have the sexual influence. How to deal with this is to understand yourself and know what you are getti