I just have a feeling this may be useful here for some categories of
students. Let me quickly share my story with you....the best sermon is
one's personal experience. I left secondary school in 2004. By 2005, I
got admitted to a state university in Ekiti State. After two years of
studies in Ekiti state, I discovered the program I was enrolled into was
not accredited. To make the story worse, nearly all lecturers in the
faculty of science avidly disliked everything about the program. It was
called SLT then.
Consequently, they mark down our papers. Not
only that, they called us all sorts of names like NFA, unfortunate
students and the likes anyone who attended the university and did that
course can attest to what I am saying. My dad happened to be a staff of
the University, so I told him about the poor grades, everything I heard
about the program and the intensity of the lecturer's hatred for the
program all to no avail. All he said was whenever students don’t want to
read, they come up with different flimsy excuses so I kept mute.
After
five years of my life in that school, my dad was made one of the board
members of the faculty so he saw the whole results since the inception
of the program. He saw so may spill over students from year 2000, and
the fact that the program has not been accredited. I was in 500 level
(final year) then with a lot of carry over courses.....carry over is not
a big deal in that program....people had 15. It was so worse that from
300level, you can be so sure you are already a spill over student. My
father saw how bad it was and he immediately invited me to his office
for a meeting. He blamed himself for not listening to me when I
complained 3 years earlier and he said he would want me to transfer
immediately. That was how I took my transcript using his influence. I
was the first person ever and possibly the last person to get a
transcript from the program. I returned to 200level in another school
entirely when I ought to graduate with maybe a third class or a pass.
I
wasted 5years of my life in Ekiti state University and as a result, i
was so sad and depressed. Merely sitting with my younger brother's age
mate turned my stomach in anger. Infact when I got to the new school, my
own younger brother who I happened to be ahead of by 3years became my
senior. The retrogression started affecting my grades such that
attending classes became a burden. Along the line, I sat myself down and
reasoned deeply about how my life has been. For crying out loud, I used
to be one of the best students in secondary school. I was only
unfortunate to have attended the wrong program in Ekiti. Though I wasn't
given any certificate despite the number of years spent but what about
the life lessons I learnt?
From that day onward, I made a
concrete decision to change my attitude towards my new classmates and I
began to humble myself to a fault. Above all, I began to see my new
school as the golden opportunity to start afresh again. My declining
grades all of a sudden began to soar so high such that I had 5.0/5.0 in
one of the semesters with a bit of dedication and I ended finishing top 5
out of the class
Today, I am currently in Canada on a graduate
program fully funded by a Canadian university. Up till now, I am yet to
spend a dime of myself in Canada because the scholarship covered
everything. Guess what? I even got two scholarships from two different
universities and just last week, I got another funding again. Yes just
last week! What if I had committed suicide then? Would I have seen the
goodness almighty God has packaged in my future today? What I am saying
in essence is you can fall as much as possible but whenever you fall and
refuse to rise again is when you failed. The righteous shall fall seven
times.....but they shall rise again.
Conclusively, whatever the
case maybe, dust up yourself and try again. Do not give up so easily
because winners never quit and quitters never win. I am sure very soon
you gonna look back and smile. Every successful man or woman at some
point had a share of that gloomy period when you feel you are all alone
and the world is about coming down on you. But I am happy to announce to
you that alot of people have tread this same path and today they have
become success and point of reference in the society. My brothers and
sisters, it is never how far, but how well and tough time never lasts
tough people do!!!!!!
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