Usually in life, we need some element of personally brewed courage to make any meaningful progress in life. Narrowing this down on students, one will definitely agree that this is true as they need a high level of courage to both to win bonus points from class tasks and even points from sitting to write aptitudes which will count toward their finally result.
As a graduate of Banking and Finance, since graduating from the university, I have never stopped to bite my fingers whenever I remember the wasted opportunity I wasted both to be the apple of the lecturer's eyes and the admired one for that day's class.
I graduated from a class of geniuses and students who will never take chances. From a class of students who will never loose the slightest bonus point because of lack of courage.
FULL ACCOUNT
Professor Nwankwo (The Head of Department) has given a take home assignment, an assignment he knew will prove really difficult for the smartest amongst us. Affixed to this take home assignment was a sumptuous 20 points benefit to the student who will attempt the finance questions correctly. Wow! I exclaimed....20 points from my desired 70 points is a reduced workload of 50 points I mentally calculated...
We all went home feeling optimistic about being the lucky student. Little did I know fate was waiting to glare angrily at me. Just as every other student, I went back to the hostel, ate, rested, showered, relaxed my mind and off I was gone to the class for the normal even reading/jacking (Oh How those days helped to sharpen my love for reading). Tackling the questions began; I moved swiftly from question one to the last having consulted with three texts on the subject matter, only having a little challenge with the second.
Finally, the deal day dawned...It was BAF 401 lecture and time was 9:10 AM. We all sat gay-full in our suits and ties waiting for the announcement to come over and attempt the last 5 questions (with explanations). Even though he got so engrossed with the business of the day, he soon remembered he gave a take home assignment. Gently but firmly, he requested for the attention of any student who had attempted the questions.
I have always known I was never the question-answering type in class, but it was not supposed to extend to this one.
Slowly I could see some signs of anger growing on his face because not even a student felt motivated to come forward. Personally I could count 5 other students whom I was pretty sure had either attempted all the questions correctly or had attempted more than half. What could be happening to me? I later found myself asking that question.
Before Iong, I saw a personality standing from amongst his friends.....wow! It was innocent....He was already at the board and had collected the red marker paint.
Even though he was able to attempt three out of five questions, he was awarded the promised 20 points for coming to make a trial. Well their was nothing I could do than cry in silence.
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Have I ever allowed fear and lack of courage to rob me of my deserved goodies ever since again?....Hell NO
We sometimes go through life thinking that we are unfortunate. Nobody was born unfortunate, we all need to stand tall and fight for what belongs to us courageously.
GET UP, SUMMON SOME COURAGE, STEEM ON AND WIN IN LIFE
