When interviewers ask me why I chose UCT as my tertiary institution of choice, my standard answer is always “Because it is the best university in Africa.” After all, it is the only university in Africa to make it to the top 200 of the World University Rankings. But what does it actually mean? Was [...]
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Famous Cracks and Fail
Posted: August 30, 2010 in humour, UniTags: fail, famous crack, university ranking
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My relationship with my mom has been strained at the best of times. It’s like the typical teenager versus parent battle where everything she does annoys the hell out of me (and I’m sure everything I do has the same effect on her judging by the frequency of her shouting episodes). On the rare occasions [...]
If you know me in real life, you will know that I am far from being the most gracious person on the planet. I trip over my own feet, I walk into automatic sliding doors, I drop things and I break them. I almost always have bruises on my arms and legs because hard objects [...]
Story of a friend (of a friend)
Posted: October 10, 2009 in humour, LifeTags: British Army, diving, drunk
Statistically speaking, there will always be one weirdo (or freakazoid, depending on the intensity of your judgement) in a group of randomly composed individuals. This post is about someone whom I have never met, but the stories involving him are so legendary that I have to dedicate an entry to him. (For the sake of [...]
Every once in a while, an email would appear in my inbox, headlined by subjects such as “Grow another inch” or “Viagra for sustainability”. Such spammages are easy to detect, and they invariably end up in my trash folder without ever being opened. A couple of days ago, I received an email forwarded from a [...]
Most of you know how much I hate facebutt applications. In fact, I am at a point where I simply ignore every app invitation that happens to pop up periodically. Recently, while reading through a friend’s profile, I came across a rather funny note: Something else to tickle the funny bone:
After weeks of graphing 3-dimensional vectors and planes, we finally migrated to a less tedious section of our maths syllabus. Today, we were introduced to the infamous ‘i‘. (For the mathematically challenged, the letter i denotes the square root of -1.) The slightly eccentric professor C. Gilmour thought it fitting to start off the lecture [...]
