Review

Review

The first week of school was awesome‼! I learnt a few things- about others, and myself as well.

1.      I still get excited when a lecturer doesn’t come to class- especially if it is on a Friday‼‼ Don’t be too quick to judge me. Well, you see, at this point I was tired and just wanted to hang out with my boys (maybe even watch the six o’clock soap on one of the local stations). Who cares? I was just happy the lec was a no show.

2.      Skiving class when paying school fees from your own pocket is a NO NO. There are evenings in the past week, when I was tired and exhausted from work but could not dare go home to relax.  Why? No way am I making my money go to waste. Mum, am sorry for the few (very countable- well, unless you include computer graphics) lessons I missed for reasons that seemed legitimate then- cramps, headache, tummy ache. Now, I just make sure am a painkiller dispenser. There is no way I will miss a lesson, for now.

3.      I respect the 50% pass mark. When we were first told during  our under grad orientation that one only needed to get 50% to pass a unit, I remember thinking how many records I was going to shatter seeing as one only needed to score 70% to have an A. I am all-the wiser now, I respect that mark- in fact you may even say I revere it (How many As I got should not be of interest). One thing under grad taught me is: the seemingly bright students don’t always pass; the weak don’t always fail. This principle in most other cases would be the exception to the rule, but was almost a norm in campus. Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you have to repeatedly do something to succeed. Passing and failing are influenced by so many things- some beyond our control.

4.      First impression makes or breaks you- I went back to the archives and got my under grad first impression manual. Thanks Yvonne and Mercy for making that almost hard and impossible to find (These two are my happy-go-lucky friends and former roommates, whom I credit with making me “more likable”). You don’t want to come across as a snob or too friendly. To be very honest, I don’t even do that. My principle: Be human. That leaves a lot of room to wiggle around.

5.      I still like sitting at the front of the class- Maybe it’s my eyesight or the fact that I have never been a backbencher my entire life and I will not enter an uncharted territory. Something interesting- it’s like these guys at the back of the class are the same ones I went with to high school and uni- only different faces. What’s that thing that PLO said? The forest may change but the monkeys are the same?

6.      People are painstakingly industrious- Folks are back to school for their third and fourth degrees…..and well, me, I am here. That’s what matters. Fact of life is, there is almost always someone better than you- that is if you ain’t Bill Gates(Though Carlos Slim has toppled the guy from the richest man throne once/twice), Usain Bolt (Yohan Blake, Tyson Gay have usurped the king- albeit legally)….you get the flow. I now know not to have the puberty scented entitlement of success. I have to strive to thrive- not just to survive.

7.     Lecturers still evoke some sort of fear- especially those seem to issue threats on every lesson. When you have a lesson named after a lecturer- not because their name is easier to pronounce than the lesson’s but rather, they are the only ones who teach it, BEWARE.  I had two such units in under grad and they weren’t nice.

Learning from lessons of the past and looking with hope into the future, I certainly know that I am on a blessed journey of life. After all, AM EVERY WOMAN.