by Candy Yorke
Sometimes all you can say is: "only at Rhodes". While my old friends are sitting in the hideous four o'clock Joburg traffic, I find myself under a tree, talking about life, love letters and people jumping off cliffs... and this is an academic tutorial.
This week's 'journ tut' provided us with another opportunity to continue our infinite mission if self discovery. While such activities are scoffed at by members of other faculties, and, admittedly often ourselves, they are exercises that are unbelievabluy important in reaching our ultimate goal. If we are one day to become world class journalists it is essential that we have a clear understanding of ourselves, and what makes us 'tick'. Before one can explain the complex issues of the world to the generally confused masses, a journalist needs to grapple with where they stand. wednesday's tutorial just proved that no one is a one man island. People and their actions major influences on our lives and the shaping of our personalities.
So, although it may seem a ridiculous exercise as we spread out on the lawns searching for our deeper meanings, hidden in there is a purposeful task. A task that will one day produce self- actualised, confident and pretty "shwaa" journalists.
0 Responses to "The Search for the Self Continues"
Post a Comment