“Most people in South Africa don't have the career they want, so they're not happy, so I want to be happy.” Cosmas is an energetic young man whose passion is sport and for this reason he enrolled in the two-year Diploma in Sports Management. He is 24 years old and lives with his mother, one of his two sisters and his children. His father has a high school diploma and his mother has a university degree. Cosmas chose the course because it is an area of ​​his interest and he believes that if you do something you are passionate about, the course will be easier and you will be happy.“ Because I am very passionate about sport and I think... eh, for a person to do something he loves will be a lot easier, like maybe doing something like accounting which I'm not passionate about, so it's a lot easier and when I qualify and work, it will also show in my job because most people in South Africa don't they have the career they want, so they're not happy, so I want to be happy. “Cosmas believes that a tertiary qualification will make him more knowledgeable about life in general and a further motivating factor is his little girl. He is not currently supporting her financially as he is a student and has no income. He resides with his mother but Cosmas spends time with every weekend except during the exam period when he has to study. He wants to offer her a better future. Cosmas enrolled for the first time in 2011. In 2012 he repeated all the first year modules. Now (2013) he is repeating the second year year as well as the first year modules. He recognized that he experienced his first year as very challenging and that he was not at all prepared for tertiary education. He thought the lesson was… middle of paper… because then if something bothers you, you would freak out. So yes, they give me all the support I need. "Social life and peer influence: Cosmas believes that interaction with his fellow students is part of his support structure. college. He believes in belonging to a group that shares his feeling for sports and in the value that this networking can add for him in the future in the sports community. By interacting regularly, they can share ideas, information and knowledge and thus support each other academically. "...we'll talk on the phone and they'll ask me and I don't know the answer, then I look up the answer in my book and then there's the answer, then we share ideas, so it's easier when you share ideas with someone share study tips like he studies and as I study then we mix everything up, so yes, it helps because we share ideas.”