Friends saw this in a site guess it will be
helpful to every fresher;
"This is based on my experience and other
information I gathered from some students
in my school and around me, and I’ll be
sharing it to ya’ll.
Enjoy you read and please whatever needs
fixing
should be fixed.
1: Failure to set their priorities right: Most
students
find themselves in the university or college
and tend
to think live is just a straight road without
setting
goals or something to achieve, they just go to
class
just because when you are in school you
must go
to class, some don’t even go at all. Setting
your
priorities right means planning ahead of
time, know
what you are in for and how soon you can
achieve
your goals.
2: The type of company they keep: higher
institution
I a place where you will surely get to meet
people of
different background, ethnic group and
belief, and it
takes a bad type to know who is bad to keep
up
with. Being a fresher is not a crime, but most
fresher won’t stop forming “NA WE DEY
HERE”,
yeah cos they wanna be heard about, and
they tend
to walk with people who can only get out of
their
lives without adding a pinch.
3: Over engagement: Hmmm, at this junction
I have
to clarify the difference between school and
a
worship place or a business arena, yeah we
understand that fingers are not equal, reason
why
some student fend form them while all you
do is
just to put a call through to your dad or
mum, but
I’ve come to realize that studying and
business
might go together but not as expected, more
so,
some students have turned their worship
place into
a lecture room, they call it serving God brings
perfection and success, but I,ll remind you
now in
case you forgot that your primary mission in
school
is to read well and graduate with something
worth it.
4: Failure to understand yourself: well, you
might
ask what that mean, am gonna tell you,
understanding yourself means knowing what
exactly work for you, are you the type who
takes a
coffee before you can read, perhaps you can
hardly
read with candle, do you even read at night? ,
oh oh
oh so you’ve been working against yourself
just
because bro Jack goes to night classes doesn’t
mean he knows more than you do, I tell you
now
that I met lot of scholars in my first year who
can’t
do without clubbing every weekend, yet they
are
doing really well in their studies. So sit
yourself
down and understand your philosophy.
5: Social life: well, I can’t blame it all on
facebook,
IG, whatsapp even 2go, gosh this social
media apps
are just not gonna stop to make and mar
people’s
dreams, technology has so much grown in
the last
few years, students now connect with
anybody
anywhere in the world “the world is global”
that you
just said abi? Yeah but I still don’t get why
you stick
to your phone chatting and reading lots of
gist while
you should be in class or even writing a test,
a Prof,
sometime asked why students now fail
woefully, a
student whispered to my ears and said “there
was
no FB, IG and 2go in your time” I couldn’t
help but
laugh.
6: The extroverts: I don’t know how to
categorize
this well, but am gonna try to make you
understand,
gaining admission into higher institution is
enough to
call an achievement, but I tell you that’s just
the
beginning of your quest, in remember how
many
people I called during my first year just to tell
them I
gained admission, even people I don’t really
talk to ,
I later thought over it and asked “why am I
doing
this” try to ask yourself the same question.
Perhaps
you are the type who can’t just keep your
happiness to yourself, I dare you to start
doing that
now, who knows you might just get lucky to
change
7: Lack of parental advice or care: This should
be
for the parents, you have done well to pay for
her
school fees but on the part of caring
oooooops you
have done woefully bad, when last did you
call her
to ask if everything was fine, when last did
you
even visit her in school, I tell you students
change
in a blink of an eye, don’t be afraid if she
returns
home acting all weird, yeah you caused it. Do
you
even call her to encourage her to press on
and not
to get tired, oh “no one was there to tell me
all
these” is what u keep saying, stand up and fix
this
aspect.
8: Misuse of freedom: Now you are in school
and
no one to say “hey Dave, wash those plates”
hmmmmm, well you might be free indeed
but how
do you manage your freedom, playing video
games
when you ought to be in class, seeing a
friend at
10pm or even smoking and drinking, it
doesn’t help
you a bit, try to fix that
9: Lack of Self-confidence: This is the major
reason
why student fail a lot, even after you’ve read
every
material expected of you, you still feel empty
in the
skull, it’s not because you are dull but
because you
have not built your self-confidence, are you
the
type that rehearse just a single sentence just
to
approach your lecturer to clarify something
to you?
You don’t need to, he’s not God and surely he
started from somewhere too.
10: Lack of plan/procrastination: most
student fail
to plan, plan as I know it is a laid down
schedule or
protocol to observe at a particular point in
time, do
you even have time to construct a time-table
of
your own, do u keep those assignments in
your bag
when you should take them out and answer,
saying
it’s not yet time for submission, I’ll do it later.
But
we all know later might end up being
submission
day or even beyond that."