Day 63 - Post graduation! - Wits gives you the edge, eventually!

Ok so my Graduation day was on the 24th March, making it last week Wednesday! A very overwhelming experience and I was utterly upset by the fact that I had no time to blog about the day. Eish I didn't blog about my birthday either, I'll sort it out.

 So anyway, I'm a graduate now, feels amazing, I also feel grown... its all good though cause its gotta happen, cant stay young forever.

 Here are my thoughts on my graduation: The limelight was set to shine on me as I gradually walked towards it. My heart was beating out of my chest and my nerves were uncontrollable. Why am I nervous? I asked myself. And all that echoed back to me was my pride and joy. So it wasn’t nerves, it was the disbelief that I had successfully reached my graduation day.

 A spectrum of academics filled the Great Hall stage as the audience’s cheers praised the graduates that went before me. Then I was up onto the first step, the next step and then I was standing next to the Dean of Humanities, Tawana Kupe, waiting for my name to be called. “Thato Mokhou,” he announced and that was my cue to walk towards my light.

 The Chancellor waited with his hand out to me, ready to proclaim me as graduate. Swollen with pride I approached him, sudden camera flashes captured my moment and his brief congratulatory words. The moment quickly came and swiftly it was gone but it was the best two minutes of my life yet.

 I remember the day I walked through the gates of Wits, while filled with the confusion and excitement of being a first year student I knew that my future would be rooted into the prestige and academic reputation of Wits. My mind was initially clouded by the endless professions that one can venture into and sadly in my indecisive wonder I ended up being a first year student three times. Nonetheless I found my home in the Arts and have not regretted it since.

 So does a Wits degree really open up doors? Well with persistent prayer and mere luck, my degree has opened up doors into numerous passages that can only lead to possible greatness. And not only this but the degree will easily … an academic during dinner parties. Now I could brag about studying further, collecting more degrees and being honoured at different tertiary institutions. – I’ve always wondered what it felt like being an academic and now I kind of do.

 Fact is, obtaining a degree is no walk in the park. All my sleepless study nights, endless trips to Wartenweiler and Cullen libraries and perhaps also my inspirational Fridays at the Bowling Club have seriously paid off. I’m officially a graduate, (whos still studying by the way), even so I can proudly declare that Wits has given me the edge. HALALA!