Good morning fambam. It's a not-so-cold morning here in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria.
I just woke up to the reality of my first semester exams starting tomorrow. I've been trying to read but I've not been able to. I don't know why but at this point, I have no choice but to force myself to read and assimilate what I'm reading.
I'll be writing 8 papers back to back starting from tomorrow and ending next week Monday. How can they set a time table like that? Giving just few hours for us to prepare for the next paper the following day. 😕
I know about all the talk of how going to school and getting a degree is important blah blah blah🙄, but to be sincere to ourselves, does having a degree really count for anything here in Nigeria?
I ask this because here in this part of the world, so many students spend so many years of their lives trying to get that degree only to finally get it and realize that nobody cares whether they get it or not. The country is so deep in mess that when applying for a job, a person who didn't spend several years trying to a get a degree is chosen over another person who did. Why? Because that one chosen for the job has an uncle who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody. And that somebody put in word for him.
It shouldn't be so. But sadly, it is.
Don't say I'm ranting because I don't like school (though that's what triggered it), I just want things to be better.
But how can things get better when our leaders lack common sense...mtchew.
What do I know? Let me goan force myself to read.🚶🚶