Life is in stages they say. That exactly I believe is what it will continue to be. For some reading this, you are likely to be at the stage in which the whole taught that occupies your mind is how you will maintain a good grade while climbing the ladder to the second year in the University. Others will be thinking of how their first Industrial training experience is going to look like. To another group, they eagerly await the time to be referred to as the final year students. My graduating colleagues are however thinking of what the demands of the outside world is.
This made me call to remembrance some few years down the line. For some of us (we know ourselves), we actually have resumed on this campus with mix fillings after some months of burning candles in order to be offered our dream course- Engineering. A number of us, after being offered admission here, went ahead to retake the JAMB exams again and again.
Then, being in the school of communication was a different world for most of us; or how do you draw the line between organic chemistry and French, or the relationship between differential calculus and interpreting the literary elements in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart?
It may surprise some of my course mates to learn that the last JAMB exam I wrote was in the second semester of my second year in LASUSOC, and was also my third attempt as an undergraduate. Do you want to know what I scored? I know what you’re thinking – for me to have written JAMB three times as an undergraduate, five times in all, I must have been a dull student – right? Sorry to disappoint you. After reading for the exams alongside my school works, I still managed to score 259.
However, my aim was to change over to Computer Science at the University of Lagos or probably run the program alongside my course here. I was not offered admission! My score was below the cut-off point they say, and there was no way I could fulfill that dream. After this and with my father’s counsel I decided to make use of what I have at hand; Communication Technology. A bird at hand they usually say is better than ten in the bush; my support for this allusion however may not be total, but that’s an argument that will require some philosophizing.
However, beyond the ambition of becoming an engineer, I have learnt along the way that life is not all about Mathematics and Physics, or probably Chemistry. I have found life residing close to literature domain as well. I’ve seen that though I lack the elementary knowledge of secondary-school level government at inception, my presence in the school of communication has availed me the opportunity of learning advanced government.
The School of Communication, asides from my regular departmental courses, has taught me how to write news, and how advertising projects can be executed. The School of Communication, through Baba, as we have chosen to call him, has also shown me how different films can be made. I am now as good as Tunde Kelani as far as film production is concern. When I conclude my undergraduate program, I can as well decide to take over the position of Chief Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspaper from Dr Reuben Abati. I know you’ll think I have a tall dream. The bottom line is that if I may borrow some lines from the Book of Life… I can do all things, through LASUSOC that strengthens me.
Beyond the light impressions above however, to my colleagues in 400level, the little time we have now is the time to start taking details of events around us. Remember, what happens today has a 1% rate of being repeated exactly the same way tomorrow; Beyond LASUSOC lies the bigger world. The clock is already ticking and the hours remaining for us on this campus can as well be estimated.
Through all these years we’ve been together, what impressions have you made on people? Incase you have made negative ones; tomorrow may not be the best time to correct them when today is slipping by. The clock is ticking and very fast at that.
It is a known fact that life can’t be lived in isolation. That course mate of yours you believe you can’t gain anything from today might be the one to sign the letter that will take you to your next level in the distant future. I guess some of you will shout; “Preach on Pastor”, it really should be a sermon, so you can see it as one.
This should never be a time to remain on your own, as this may result in being on your own for life. There is tremendous power in association. There is more to say, and more to share together even as we count the numbers of days we have left in LASUSOC, but I will end this piece with this - You can never tell, the impression you make on people today may be the expression you will get tomorrow; and my sense of judgment tells me that if you can think ahead, you will always have an edge!
This made me call to remembrance some few years down the line. For some of us (we know ourselves), we actually have resumed on this campus with mix fillings after some months of burning candles in order to be offered our dream course- Engineering. A number of us, after being offered admission here, went ahead to retake the JAMB exams again and again.
Then, being in the school of communication was a different world for most of us; or how do you draw the line between organic chemistry and French, or the relationship between differential calculus and interpreting the literary elements in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart?
It may surprise some of my course mates to learn that the last JAMB exam I wrote was in the second semester of my second year in LASUSOC, and was also my third attempt as an undergraduate. Do you want to know what I scored? I know what you’re thinking – for me to have written JAMB three times as an undergraduate, five times in all, I must have been a dull student – right? Sorry to disappoint you. After reading for the exams alongside my school works, I still managed to score 259.
However, my aim was to change over to Computer Science at the University of Lagos or probably run the program alongside my course here. I was not offered admission! My score was below the cut-off point they say, and there was no way I could fulfill that dream. After this and with my father’s counsel I decided to make use of what I have at hand; Communication Technology. A bird at hand they usually say is better than ten in the bush; my support for this allusion however may not be total, but that’s an argument that will require some philosophizing.
However, beyond the ambition of becoming an engineer, I have learnt along the way that life is not all about Mathematics and Physics, or probably Chemistry. I have found life residing close to literature domain as well. I’ve seen that though I lack the elementary knowledge of secondary-school level government at inception, my presence in the school of communication has availed me the opportunity of learning advanced government.
The School of Communication, asides from my regular departmental courses, has taught me how to write news, and how advertising projects can be executed. The School of Communication, through Baba, as we have chosen to call him, has also shown me how different films can be made. I am now as good as Tunde Kelani as far as film production is concern. When I conclude my undergraduate program, I can as well decide to take over the position of Chief Editorial Board of The Guardian Newspaper from Dr Reuben Abati. I know you’ll think I have a tall dream. The bottom line is that if I may borrow some lines from the Book of Life… I can do all things, through LASUSOC that strengthens me.
Beyond the light impressions above however, to my colleagues in 400level, the little time we have now is the time to start taking details of events around us. Remember, what happens today has a 1% rate of being repeated exactly the same way tomorrow; Beyond LASUSOC lies the bigger world. The clock is already ticking and the hours remaining for us on this campus can as well be estimated.
Through all these years we’ve been together, what impressions have you made on people? Incase you have made negative ones; tomorrow may not be the best time to correct them when today is slipping by. The clock is ticking and very fast at that.
It is a known fact that life can’t be lived in isolation. That course mate of yours you believe you can’t gain anything from today might be the one to sign the letter that will take you to your next level in the distant future. I guess some of you will shout; “Preach on Pastor”, it really should be a sermon, so you can see it as one.
This should never be a time to remain on your own, as this may result in being on your own for life. There is tremendous power in association. There is more to say, and more to share together even as we count the numbers of days we have left in LASUSOC, but I will end this piece with this - You can never tell, the impression you make on people today may be the expression you will get tomorrow; and my sense of judgment tells me that if you can think ahead, you will always have an edge!
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