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About the Student-Talk blog

The idea of the blog came about a day after I had started attending a program called  PathwayForLife during the second quarter of 2014. It was discovered by UWC's Leadership and Social Responsibility department . It is a program that was started by a retired American couple - Mr Ray Brooke and Mrs Gay Brooke. The aim of the program, as the department of Leadership and Social Responsibility puts it, is “to help students discover their identity with their unique set of gifts, talents and experiences; along with their dreams and ambitions". I got the courage and confidence to start the blog after the first session of the program. The articles on the blog stem from my personal experiences as a student. What I've discovered is that we as students have common challenges which have been noted by fellow students and lecturers, too. There is also valuable information I get exposed to, which I feel other learners and students should be aware of as well. I then discovered a m