Coming across this contest reminds me of my level 100 days in the university.
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As freshmen at the university, everything was new to us, we didn’t know how things are ran, completing High School and moving to the University was a whole new level.
But what helped was that we kept the SHS momentum which was the night prep we used to go to during High School, so we never stopped going to study in class at night.
I remember one afternoon, our colleague had the rumor that a specific class was canceled but one mistake we did was not confirming from the course rep to be sure whether the class was canceled or not.
The sun was shining and after hearing that news I decided to lay back in bed and take a nap, it wasn’t long and then my phone ranged, I answered and it was a coursemate who called to inform me that it was a false news and that the lecture was in and about to organize a quiz, luckily for me, my hostel wasn’t far from the campus so I quickly dressed up and rushed into the lecture hall.
I got in and they had already started and the time remaining was 5 minutes, so I quickly tear off a sheet of paper and started with my ID. The questions that were on the board were similar to the ones I had solved days ago in prep, so I quickly applied the formula I knew and answered one question out of the 3.
The papers were marked and returned to us and what I had wasn’t something I was expecting, but it wasn’t bad either. I learned two lessons on that day.
The first lesson was that, One has to always be prepared because you don’t know what may happen in the next few hours or days. If I hadn’t learned from the previous days, the only thing I would have written on my paper would have been my student ID and the course code. But with the little knowledge I had about the course, I was able to answer a question out of the three questions given.
Another lesson I learned was never to listen to rumors, always make sure that the information you’re heard or read is from the correct source and not from someone else even if it’s from a friend, and make sure you verify in other not to fall victim.
In this world, whether in school or not wherever you find yourself wondering, always prepare yourself for the unexpected because you don’t know when you are gonna be tested, I’ve had my fair share of it.
Situations like the one you narrated happens a lot in Uni especially when the Course Rep and the lecturer does not have good relationship. This unavoidably creates asymmetry in the information flow between the two.
Yeah that’s right and I’ve had a lot of encounters here in the university.
Rumours are very destructive, it is very important we learn how to verify informations before we take them in.
Glad your preparedness didn't fail you, sometimes we may feel preparing ourselves even when no battle seems to be around is waste until the day it takes us unawares.
Thanks for sharing this with us
You are right about that, imagine if I hadn’t studied that particular course days ago, I would have turned in a blank sheet
Honestly, what a lesson each of us must learn from
Thank you for stopping by and I’m happy you learnt something out of my post
Thanks too for creating such a quality content.. all the best
I believe by now you will not trust rumors because even though they said there will be no class you have to go and see for your self there is a statement that said seeing is believing so if you go to school and hear it your self it would have been better than even hearing from your class rep because they are not the one that brought you to school nor they are the one paying your school but thank God your home is not far from the school you were able to meet up and thank God for the knowledge you hard earlier if not you will be a failure and once you fail you are to write again as carry over never trust rumors better you go to school yourself and sit down and hear from the main source than assuming is true but all I will say is thank God you have learn your lessons is for your betterment to amend next time
That’s right. Whenever they say a class is canceled I make sure to call the course rep and find out myself
better follow it like that bro because everyone's success is in his hands be it successful or not just have determination on what you are doing be it positive or negative as long as your mind is settle there you will be successful and don't work with doubt in your life always concentrate and give more attention to everything you find your self
Thanks for the advice sir 🙏🏽
you are most welcome let's keep focus and enjoy the best of it
Interesting. It is good to always be prepared. But at times, what do you want to prepare for?
Prepare for anything that comes your way.
I will, thanks