 Smuts's disdain for frivolity and laxity combined with his lack of interest in sports and his decision to take up lodgings outside the college, did much to divide him from the other students.During his first year at Cambridge, Smuts suffered from tremendous homesickness, describing himself as being 'utterly desolate'.Yet during this time Smuts had not found himself without social opportunities - as his biographer WK Hancock wrote