Materials and Metallurgical Engineering Students' Association, MATESA KNUST

Meet our Sports Personality of the Week, Mr Abdul-Latif Abubakar: a hard working gentleman and the current MATESA electoral commissioner. Mr.Latif - SOTW Who is Mr.Latif Abubakar?(Relationship status:dating, broken up, gnashing) Well, this question is a bit difficult to answer since day in and day out, people change and grow. But I will say Abdul Latif Abubakar is a young hard working gentleman who believes in self-discipline. Ha-ha, sure I’m dating. Share with us your experience in secondary school.What is the worst you ever did in school you really regret. I attended T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School, Kumasi (Real Amass). My SHS life was very fun and nice. I will say, I didn’t really struggle over there; and because I was a very hard working and discipline guy, everyone liked me. Oh not really (on the worst thing) but I think my only regret was forcing some mates to adhere to the school rules and regulations since I was a prefect. Why did you choose KNUST over t...

Illustration. Credit: HIOS The past they say hunts you down . But to get someone who overlooks all the past and says, ''Hey you deserve another shot'', has always been a one in a million event. We met in the weirdest of ways but we have grown to become the best of friends. If anyone had told me things would have grown this fast between us, I wouldn't have believed. Today I stare at your pictures and I can literally smell you. ''Am I getting mad?'', I ask myself. Maybe, no; probably yes. But if I would go mad because of the person who although I needed a new start due to my past transgressions, yet believed in me, then I wouldn't think twice about it. I guess the light I see in her is what she sees in me. We are taking things slow, not rushing a thing; trusting Your timing, not pushing when we need to pull--step by step, growth by growth--not  missing even a single nano-detail of the process. Am I mad to wait till you are ready?  For I...

Meet our Seater for this week, a handsome young gentleman and a defender on the Metallurgical Three team that played during the EPL. He tells us about himself, the department, sports and a whole lot more! Enjoy the interesting interview! Vincent Tahiru (SOTW) Who is Mr.Vincent….? (Relationship status: dating, broken up, gnashing) I Vincent Hussein Tahiru, I come from Tamale but I live in Accra.I went to Achimota school, and yeah I’m dating. Share with us your experience in secondary school. What is the worst thing you ever did in school which you really regret? SHS was really cool. Motown is so much fun and filled with a lot of activities, and pretty girls so I liked it a lot. I did every sport some but my specialities were athletics, handball, hockey and football. The thing I regret doing in SHS was staying in class more and not studying enough. Why did you choose KNUST over the other universities? Well, KNUST is the best engineering institution in the country a...

A scanning electron micrograph shows a fishnet structure formed by nanocellulose that has bound 1.15 micrometers of silica particles together. Credit: Bruno Mattos / Aalto University Tiny fibrils extracted from plants have been getting a lot of attention for their strength. These nanomaterials have shown great promise in outperforming plastics, and even replacing them. A team led by Aalto University has now shown another remarkable property of nanocelluloses: their strong binding properties to form new materials with any particle. Cohesion, the ability to keep things together, from the scale of nanoparticles to building sites is inherent to these nanofibrils, which can act as mortar to a nearly infinite type of particles as described in the study. The ability of nanocelluloses to bring together particles into cohesive materials is at the root of the study that links decades of research into nanoscience towards manufacturing. The research reveals the universality of coh...

As Tolstoy said, ''There are as many kinds of love as there are hearts''. Since the genesis of the world, from the making of green and every moving thing on the surface of the earth, love has been there. Everything natural we see is love’s product. The subject has been largely misconstrued with infatuation, lust, idolization, or obsession. There is no age to stop infatuating about someone. Infatuations sometimes bamboozle people into thinking that they are in love. Infatuation is our temporary liking and attraction towards someone whom we think are in love with, and this makes us falsely proclaim that indeed we are in love. A lot of relationships have failed to stand the test of time due to both party's inability to decipher how they feel, what they feel and why they feel what they feel. As we grow with time, we begin to have affection toward each other be it heterosexual or homosexual. This affection takes more serious and mature form with time. In toda...

Gideon (SOTW) Our Sports Personality of The Week is a fine gentleman in MATESA and part of the Materials XI. Hhe tells us about himself, the department and sports. Please enjoy. Who is Mr.Gideon Asiedu?(Relationship status:dating, broken up, gnashing) I am Gideon. K. Adjei,a second year materials engineering student. I completed WESS (Wenchi Methodist Senior High School); and I’m gnashing. Share with us your experience in secondary school. What is the worst thing you ever did in school which you really regret? Secondary school was fun because in my class, we were few so we knew each other very well and I was a house prefect, technical head and the president of our cultural group. The worst thing I regret of was when my best friend saw a love letter from her girlfriend in which that letter was to be given to me. It was awkward, and due to that, I was not able to speak comfortably to ladies. Why did you choose KNUST over the other universities? It’s the only universi...

To the girl of my dreams From the guy who believes you’re undeniably enough My Dearest Naa Ayele, If I was your West, would your eyes' sun set on me? If I was your East, would your heart’s sun rise in joy from seeing me? If I was your North, would your life’s compass always point to me? If I promised to forever remain faithful, work on myself, right all my wrongs, worship the very ground you walk on, would your love for me still go south? I don’t remember when we first met or the first words we ever spoke but I swear, my life has never been…no! Scratch that, my life has never been, my life will never be the same. I am only but a man but any time I see you, I feel I am one with the wind – I can fly. I am only a few decades old but I feel I have seen it all when my eyes steal glimpses at you. You embody everything perfect and true and divine and everything twice. You paint my mind with picturesque images only heaven could conjure. Whoever drew your curves has to be ...

Ralph Gyebi (SOTW) Meet Ralph on Sports Seat today, a fine gentleman and prospective metallurgist. Certainly the crush of many MATESA ladies (Hahaha).  Please tell us about yourself. (Relationship status: Gnashing, dating broken up, crushing, etc). Well, I'm Raphael Kwasi Sarfo Gyebi, a 3rd year Metallurgical engineering student. An old boy of Mfantsipim school. I love sports and arts. I find humour in almost anything. And I'm single, hahaha. Share with us your experience in secondary school. Secondary school was fun, having attended a boys school. The learning and church service and craziness that came with entertainment made SHS worthwhile. In the long run, it built our persona in every aspect of our lives, Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually hei, devotion on weekdays and morning and evening service on Sunday no be joke. Metallurgical Engineering, were you given the programme or you chose it? I chose it as my last choice and It was given to me. But I...