For the Rhodents' social life never dies!

Is it sad that I'm actually pleased to have finally begun exams? For the past two weeks I've had no lectures, which sounds heavenly until you realise that I've spent that time confined to the library with my nose buried in notes (mostly law). To actually walk into the Great Hall today and WRITE something felt fantastic :D even though I'm pretty sure I got question 4 wrong (if any Phil 2 students can help me out here, it'll be much appreciated!)

It's always interesting to see that, unlike most places, the social life of the Rhodents doesn't die during exams. Instead it simply shifts from Friars to the library; from Rat to the Jac Labs. It sounds ridiculous, but the library and the Kaif have become the social hub of Rhodes in the past two weeks. I see a familiar face almost every time I step through that awesome revolving door (nerdy quote for the day: "Whoever said anything was possible never tried to slam a revolving door") and Kaif breaks lead to conversations with people I haven't seen in ages (Hi Kelvin!). I even find myself making new friends; I had a brief discussion with a girl when I asked her to watch my bag while I went to the bathroom, and some random guy came up and asked me for help when he saw that I was reading Philosophy notes. Groups of smokers form on the steps outside the library, chattering and comparing notes while non-smokers chill at the Kaif tables with a cup of coffee or a Fizz pop. And of course there's always the entertainment that arises when a gust of wind sends someone's notes scattered across the Kaif quad.

Speaking of the Kaif, allow me to deviate slightly from my topic to comment on how weird their menu is. Hot chips...awesome. Hot chips with cheese...unusual, but cool. Hot chips with cheese and polony...wtf? Who puts polony in chips? And how? Do they cut it into tiny squares and scatter it in the bag? Or do you just get a couple of slices along with your order? I swear I'm going to order it one day out of sheer curiosity.

^ that's the Kaif. (I'm putting more photos in to make the blog prettier :P ) The slightly ridiculous-looking randoms are in the middle of a flash mob.

The Kaif is actually quite a danger zone during exams. As one friend so eloquently put it: "You'll be studying in the library and decide to take a 10 minute break at the Kaif. Three hours and R50 later, you're STILL there." I've had first-hand experience of this: half hour breaks become one-and-a-half hour breaks, one Coke becomes one Coke and a donut and and and...in the end, the Kaif doesn't make you relax. It makes you broke. And fat. And feel guilty for not studying. But you know what? I'd rather spend all morning and all my money at the Kaif than spend another ten seconds studying the property rights of African customary law. And I'd be pretty bleak if it suddenly shut down. I mean, where could I legitimately procrastinate?

PS: shout out to all the poor law students. Regardless of what year you're in, law exams SUCK.