Adewale, a 100-level student at the University of Rivers State, had always been a smart girl. However, the obstacles and weights of the university made her start having doubts at some time.
She knew that the department she was going into, law, was a hard course choice, but she used to believe that she was smart and studious to enter and come out unscathed. But the very first day of school made her think twice.
Her very first mistake was forgetting that she had hung the clothes she planned to Wear on Monday outside to receive a little sunlight since it had been in the hostel's moist wardrobe for quite some time.
Late in the night on Sunday, Adewale was still sleeping since she said she was just going to take a quick nap from all the stress of registration and entered a deep slumber till night.
She was woken up by the drizzles that made their way to her bed from the window opposite.
"Jesus!" She jerked up as it hit her that her clothes were still outside. She didn't bother as she saw how heavy the rain was so she went back to sleep with no hope of saving her clothes outside.
Luckily for her, she had some backup uniforms, but they needed to be pressed.
Although she went early that morning to the laundry and got the clothes pressed, she still lost some time.
She hurriedly got ready and went straight to the lecture hall, skipping breakfast; she was already 20 minutes late.
Immediately she reached the door of the lecture hall, the first person to turn their head was the lecturer in front of the class, followed by the filled hall of students.
It was like she was the only one absent and she felt ashamed as she looked at the ground.
"How can I help you?" The lecturer, who was a short, chubby, beautiful woman in her late 40s, asked Adewale sarcastically.
Adewale not knowing what to answer said ruefully "I am here for the class,"
"You have a phone look at it, or do you need me to tell the time for you," the lecturer said mockingly.
"Come in," the lecturer looked at her with pity. Just as Adewale was a few steps into the class, the lecturer stopped her. "Wait, are you dressed for the market," just then, she realized her shirt wasn't tucked in.
"Sorry, ma," Wale begged and scuffled with her clothes.
"Don't bother, just get out," the lecturer said with anger.
And just like that, Adewale missed her very first class and had already been marked by one of the lecturers.
After that day, the lecturer, Miss Annie, would always look for Adewale when she was in class and was more strict with her than any other person.
The thing that worried Adewale was how people always talked about how she had been marked by Miss Annie, and there was no way she was going to pass the course, no matter how intelligent she was.
One weekend, she happened to talk to her friend Julie and opened up about her worries about failing the course.
"Hmmm, you don't even need to bother writing her exam cause you have already failed," Julie assured her.
" Really," Adewale replied, feeling down.
"Don't worry; it is nothing to be sad about. I know someone at an ICT center who can change your grade in your result portal. He is the one I paid for my year one course," Julie reassured her.
" Okay, I will think about it, " Adewale said. Wale was the kind that would outright reject the offer, but at that point, she felt like that could be her saving grace.
Although Wale was worried, it didn't stop her from reading and preparing for her exams.
The day reached for the sitting of Miss Annie's examination, and Wale was present and ready to write.
When they brought the question papers while most people were murmuring and scratching their heads, wale was confident she could scale through easily, but still, she couldn't express her joy in any way as her expression remained sad.
She began sinking deep into her thoughts
" is there any point in this? I am going to write well and still fail. Maybe I should just walk out and pay for my grades to be altered instead of wasting my hard work and energy writing..."
Wale was still deep in her thoughts until she heard the invigilator say "You have one hour left"
"I have to decide whether to sink or swim; if my dad was here, he would tell me it is better to fail honestly than to win by cheating. Oh well, I will just do my part and leave the rest to God," Adewale decided to write at that point and went to work on her paper immediately.
After her paper, her spirit told her to go to Miss Annie and apologize no matter if she was wronged or not.
Adewale met Miss Annie in her office, and when she got permission to enter, she laid down a well-constructed, heartfelt apology for anything she might have done wrong.
To her surprise, Miss Annie was genuinely smiling; Adewale was confused.
"I can never do that; even if I have a problem with you, I can never take away what you earned. And don't mind how strict I am on you; sometimes I just have this bad habit of being strict on people I see potential in, in a means to shape them to become greater. And the first day I saw you, I felt there was more to you. And your academics proved me right," Miss Annie said emotionally.
Adewale couldn't help but start to shed tears. And when Miss Annie stood up and consoled her with a hug, she busted into more joyful tears.
From that day on, Adewale shunned every idea of Miss Annie failing people who earned a good result through hard work.
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After so much suffering and worry, the girl was able to pass the exam despite how strict her teacher was.
Thanks for sharing your story with us.
Excellent day.
You are welcome