Lately I've been spending a lot of time at the University. I've attended orientation talks, matriculated and went for the requisite health check-ups.

But mostly I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to open doors to the facilities on campus with my student card and trying to figure out which shuttle bus service goes where.

School hasn't even officially started and I've already had to be more proactive and independent with regards to my eeducation than ever before. But then again this isn't just school anymore! It is hard to picture myself as an individual being part of a community of over 30,000 students and far more alumni. It's so easy to feel small and unimportant but at the same time exciting to be part of something bigger.

Stock-taking- I think everyone does this in some form at the start of a new phase of life. I know some people do the inventory in their minds, setting goals, making note of the things they'd like to improve about themselves. After doing all that, i decided to take it further and clean out all my social media stuff. I guess it all really started when I went to school for talks and realised that among the people I would be coursemates with were old friends who I hadn't crossed paths with in several years, new friends I am just getting to know and also people I had hoped I would never see again.

And then I started thinking about all the people on my Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts I never talk to anymore. And I promptly started deleting them from my friends lists. Recently, I've become really disillusioned by the presence and role of social media in my life. And I guess I don't need 200 of my acquaintaces to know what's going in my life. But more on that in my next post. I've been told not to burn any bridges in life but right now I'm struggling to understand why I should allow 200 people I don't know the freedom to view 3000 phots of me on Facebook should they choose to. Also, I figured that if I don't really know them they wouldn't be interested in the happenings in my life anyway.

I hope that if any of the aforementioned 200 people read this they won't think poorly of me but recognise that at least I'm not pretending to be chummy with them, which is what a lot of people I know do anyway.

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