Category: Essays
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After a pleasant weekend spent relaxing and not worrying about the impending Atomic Physics module exam on Wednesday, I arrived at the Physics Honours student office on Monday ready to put my head down for two days of intensive studying. I was near the bottom of the class and this was the hardest module of…
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A couple weeks ago I read a post by another creator. The post was about how they instinctively avoided topics in which they felt a high level of uncertainty, and they cited astrophysics as an example of a field of certainty. This struck me as an odd choice due to what I learnt way back…
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I was always a very sensitive kid. That’s what being an only child will do to you. I cried all the time. Particularly when I lost a fight in Judo. I didn’t want to cry. I really didn’t. It just happened. I knew it was pathetic and that the right thing was to take the…
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And she said “Losing love is like a window in your heartEverybody sees you’re blown apartEverybody see the wind blow” Friendships can be wonderful things. They can also lead to a lot of hurt. Many of you reading will probably not know the name Paul Simon, but you may know the name Simon & Garfunkel.…
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To my great shame, I have never read A Long Walk to Freedom. Growing up in South Africa, the story of Mandela is so wrapped up in the story of the country itself, reading his biography can feel unnecessary. I thought I knew all there was to know about his life. That’s why I was…
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I’m a very anxious person. Worrying about what other people think of me, or rather what I think other people think of me, takes up far more of my life than I would like to admit. I once went a whole year without using my locker at school because it happened to be located just…
The Dust Did Roar 