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One afternoon, amidst the nervousness and impatience, I repeated what I had been doing for about 2 weeks; I checked my admission status and like a dream, my surname preceded the first beautifully. As the cliché goes, “this calls for celebration”, we made a bit of joyful noise and took some beverages. Fast forward to the day I settled on campus in a hall I secured; what a great feeling I had as I realized that truly no authoritarian housemaster would be monitoring my movements. The freedom of choice of eating what I wanted when I felt like was blissful. I was present at a couple of parties… and man, I’d never witnessed an uncountable number of pretty ladies all located in one community at the same damn time.
After a couple of lectures, I was hit with a couple of
assessments/tests. I slayed them with ease
because my lecture notes were just a handful. Then came a week when I had to
face my fearful courses in my first semester on the same day, including two
others the same week. Fam, my handkerchiefs really got wet with sweat.
Time for vacation arrived, and the friends I made from
senior levels waved goodbye. The close ones told me to stay strong for the
battle ahead. Writing my exams just after Christmas was going to be a first
time experience. Given an X’mas break, I left with all my books and lecture
notes to the house. At home, I tried never to miss church. As usual, a lot of
invitation cards and calls came through. I wish I could’ve completely turned
away from intoxication, but there were some of the parties I just couldn’t
afford to be absent. Whilst breaking bottles and emptying khebab sticks, visions
of myself in examination room flashed before my eyes. I thought to myself
bemusedly if these could help me to build my GPA.
I woke up each morning knowing the
day’s vivid date as it was a countdown to my first major exams in the
university. With all these natural alarms pressurizing me, I read through all
my notes and revised them effectively. I was ushered into the new year with a
mind-boggling paper. An experience I’d not like to revisit is when I left my ID
card in my locker and had to return in the middle of the road to grab it. In
the exams room, even if the invigilator left, these CCTV cameras wouldn’t let a
guy ask for the answers to 3 unshaded MCQ’s.
My oh my, I did my very best, and as the saying goes, the
rest was left to history.
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