By By Titilope Ogundele
ABOUT two years ago, I had an encounter with two students. They just appeared out of the blues and introduced themselves to me; they were final year students retaking a 100 level course, a GST course. They didn’t attend classes; they only showed up a few days to the exam.
I was bothered; I wondered what really happened. Did they fail the course three times? I tried to speak to them but they really had no serious reason or excuse; they were just a group of unserious students.
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They missed assignments and tests; they came to class just once or twice. These were final year students playing with a GST course, a course they must pass before they graduate from the university.
I reported their case to the course supervisor and I was given a go ahead to conduct a makeup test for them and I did. I also gave them one or two assignments.
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Eventually, one of them had an extra year. That extra year could have been avoided; he was just careless.
Many students have great potentials but get carried away by the glamour and independence that the university environment offers.
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Some students get distracted with unnecessary things; they focus on activities and abandon their academics, the main reason they were in school.
While some students have the capacity to engage in many other things and still excel in their academics, some are not so endowed. We all need to know what works for us.
Even as adults, you need to know what works for you; you don’t necessarily have to do things the way others do theirs; you have different capacity and potentials.
Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Know what works for you and work by it.
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