Looking back through my formative years and making a mental image of the trajectory I wanted my life to go through, I realized that the only spur needed was my imagination, my drive and clarity of the future in my mind’s eye. I studied Mechanical Engineering for my Bachelor’s degree specialising in Thermofluids (Refrigeration). Favourite memories of my first degree were the classes in Engineering Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Power Plants Design, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Principles, Thermal Analysis of Buildings and Drying Engineering. I always took an active part in the disquisitions and carried out extra research on my own. I graduated in the top 5% of my class. I continued in that light in graduate school where I took courses in Advanced Heat Transfer, Advanced Thermodynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Power Plants, Fuels and Combustion, Advanced Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Boundary layer theory, and Solar Energy Utilization. Shortly after my admission into graduate school, I took time out to study the man many believed to have reshaped the world of science and engineering- Albert Einstein. I saw him as a man with a great penchant for solving (complex) problems in simple ways. He once said ‘Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them’. My desire to solve existing problems and prevent new ones grew and I decided to improve and harness my research ability. I appreciate all that a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering imbued in me. It also inculcated in me an intellectual thirst to carry out “on the field” research for a protracted length of time. This led to my registering as a PhD researcher at the Clean Energy Research Group at the University of Pretoria. My PhD thesis titled “Condensation Inside Smooth Horizontal And Inclined Tubes At Low Mass Fluxes”. This is experimental work and at present, I have published three journal papers and three conference papers from this research. Furthermore, one article is under review and the 4th is still in progress. I will be graduating in September