THE NIGERIAN PLIGHT - FOR STUDENTS

Life has a way of messing with us in ways we don’t expect.

Life is more like a reality game where you need to be ready for every challenge without an exact pre-notice.

The only kind of pre-notice you get is snitch knowledge from those that have passed through similar stages of the game before us.

One of the really funny truths about the Nigerian Economy now is that undergraduates that don’t have the snitch knowledge of the real world have a propensity of facing a hard time after school.

Back in University, we had more lecturers, few teachers, almost none.

Lecturers were those who came to class to basically teach for their salary and not really for the student’s success. Many of them, I believe , have been through the labor “real world” market and for them, it wasn’t fun but guess what, they never really talk about it except for the select jovial few(the teachers) who cared more about the student beyond the classroom.

Day in day out, one semester after another, you hear news of how someone became something profound after graduating from the University.

How they did this and did that. Truth is there isn’t always so much of them at least compared to how many graduates that wears those cardboard-inserted caps on convocation. It’s like most graduads escape into the oblivion of “they-never-made-it” after school. That is the way it seems.

Has anyone ever truly considered the ratio of SUCCESS: STRUGGLING for higher institution graduates? We all know that result. At least, the seemily-accurate assumption of that ratio value is quite uniform as far as many people’s judgment is concerned.

Every one that went to university in Nigeria, served and tried looking for a job in the same economy is familiar with this ratio.
No one talks about this ratio. If the school system raises the awareness better, maybe it will save a lot of student the stress of the surprising realization they get after leaving school.

The realization of applying endless in an economy that cares less about what happens to the youth after school.

I wish students would try to be closer to the truth even before they get admitted to the university, that will give them the opportunity to quickly make a decision and plan their life ahead.

If you are 18, and you still have very little idea of how the world comes, the truth is that be ready to pay for every bit of that knowledge that eludes you.

MY ADVICE: Meet and socialize with non-students, working class, Start a business that allows you to meet people , make money in the process , acquire business experience and how-the-world-works experience. All the aforementioned gains are invaluable, trust me. It is.

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