Sometime last year, I read an article our “head boy” at safe space wrote on reading ahead and reading daily and the serious student in me took it quite seriously. So over the break before resumption late last year, your girl was already studying and feeling like the student of the year. So I’d love to cuss out at ASUU from the bottom of my heart but I’m now a woman of peace or something like that. The ASUU strike really had me go from a girl who was ahead of the class to one struggling to keep up with everything going on in the class. Wild isn’t it?
Anyways, on behalf of every student under ASUU, I’d like to tell our lecturers to Zukwanike! I mean, they need to rest small so we can rest.
But for real, the situation students have found themselves in at the moment feels like the proverbial grass that suffers when two elephants fight. The FG and ASUU had been at loggerheads and while that dragged on, our education came to a big unprovoked pause. I mean, what did we really do?
In all of these hullabaloo, we’ve just existed on the sidelines doing nothing but receiving the painful end of the never ending battle between both parties. Like that’s not enough undeserved suffering, the strike gets called off abruptly and with little to no time for the news of resumption to sink in, we’re bombarded with a butt load of school work. It’s like ignoring a pregnant woman because you didn’t want the baby and suddenly paying attention to her in her 9th month. She’s still going to have the child. What’d simply happen would be that you’d be too unprepared for parenting and that’s where the students are. Unprepared for everything that’s dropped on our heads after being left hanging for months unending.
It’s safe to say that about 80% of students had moved on with life outside of school as the weeks rolled into months, and on that alone there’s a level of work to be done as the strike is called off. Companies lose their workers in such an impromptu manner but they have to be understanding because they know the students don’t have much of a say and the students just have to put an end to a lifestyle that’s already familiar, and as well lose their sources of income and they simply have to magically be able to bear the sudden flip in the switch that thrusts responsibilities that they have not had to deal with for months all at once.
One thing the average Nigerian student can definitely relate to at the moment is “The pressure is getting weserr” because realistically, there’s a whole lot of pressure on our necks but we’ll pull through. We always do. And maybe, just maybe that’s why we get to deal with these situations.
I don’t know if I’m in a position to give advice but I’d say, don’t be lax, but if need be, do relax. This life nor get season two.
