(Ep 15) MANY STUDENTS FAIL IN THEIR 100 LEVEL.

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The University of Lagos, recently, had their convocation ceremony. A lot of students posted their grade point averages (GPA) on Twitter. I noticed that a good number of them, had their worst GPAs in their 100 levels


Many Students Fail in First Year

Many students, usually, do not do well in their first years (100 LEVEL) in the University or college. Many accumulate heavy luggages of carryovers in their first years. Some eventually recover from these carryobers while others do not.

Many who should have become first class materials ruined that opportunity in their first years. Whatever be the reason, many students regret how they treated their academics during 100levels.


Mostly The Student's Fault

For a lot of students, their failures in first year is mostly their fault. Many came into campus in so much frenzy. Some get carried away with a lot of excitement of having finally become an undergraduate. Others are so happy that they have been freed from the clutches of staying at home and the attendant chores.

Some think that the Campus is there just to make friends, play around, show off, exercise one's entire youthful exuberance, etc. Instead of facing what brought them to school, they choose to be the 'campus badies' or the 'campus big boys'. Thus, they refuse to sit down and learn, attend lectures, study and do their homeworks.

By the time they realized the damage this must have caused them, it had become too late. By the time they discovered the injury they have caused rhemselves, a lot of blood has already been lost.


'Your eyes go soon clear'

Like they would say in Nigerian Pidgin English, 'Their eyes go clear', meaning that they will come to realize the harm they did to themselves. If you are in Campus, and you are still not taking your academics seriously, I wish to remind you that 'Your eyes go soon clear'

You must realize that you are no longer a child. Campus is not for children. You must sit down and do what is relevant for your future. Otherwise, you may have to return back to secondary school or maybe primary school, where children with such unserious mentality abound!

Permit me to sound very harsh today. I hope that this helps you to talk some sense to yourself. I hope this makes you sit down and study. I hope this helps you stop wasting your parents' money.

Please, sit down, study and do well in your studies. It's not too late to start doing the right things, even if you already have carryovers, Start doing the right things from today.


I'm rooting for you. Don't let me down.


"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest."; Ecclesiastes 9:10


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Dr Tochukwu Onu, PT 

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