As a former student of first class, I would love to share my story with
everyone who passionately intends to graduate with a first class
degree. Am currently a student of mechanical engineering in year three.
It all started as a race without brake and I had all the zeal, energy
and passion required to even graduate with 5.00 CGPA. Our first semester
result was released and lo and behold, I had 4.91, I became angry that I
wont fulfill my dream of graduating with 5.00 anymore. I never knew the
worst was still on the way. My second semester began with that
enthusiasm as of the first. I am not the type who keep female friends,
and I am not getting any younger(25) so I felt the need to get someone
around. I found this babe someworth ok and she had the basic qualities
of the kinda girl I had wanted. We then got started and it was going on
smoothly and we had real good time both academicaly and morally. She had
always appreciated me for teaching her a lot about life. Contrary to my
first semester when I had all the time alone, now my time was divided
in the sense that I have to satisfy the both of us academically- we did
some courses together. We got really close and things started getting
bad that she began to shoe me her bad side in some sort. She could shout
at me and command me to do anything for her. I tried as much as I could
to cope with her, but things went worse with time. Long story cut short
is that I had a semesterial GP of 4.33. It kept dropping as I continued
to allow more friends around me. I was not too selective of my friends
as I tried as much as possible to carry everyone along. As am writing
this peice my CGPA is now 4.16, the girl in question is no longer close
to me, we dont even chat anymore. She was always calling me like we were
dating. I can't recall the last time I saw a call from her, probably
three months ago. Another problem I faced was laxity. I got relaxed and
felt everything is easy so why should I study hard. I became enotionally
down as a result of keeping some unrully friends who felt no rimorse in
dishing out abusive words in an attempt to sound more friendly. I can
take some of those stuffs personal atimes though. I'd love to draw up a
list of lessons to everyone reading this post.
(1) Always learn to be yourself and love your own uniqueness.
(2) Never you try to fit in. Create your own world and make it worth copying by others.
(3) Never compromise your standard for anyone. It will not worth it in the end.
(4) Always set healthy limits for whoever you keep as friend. Especially the toxic ones.
(5) Once a friend offends you, feel free to get angry at them immediately, they will respect you.
(6) Help others, but don't do that at the detriment of your academic excellence.
(7) Make friends with those who are ahead of you in all spheres of life, go to church, attend social gatherings.Exhale laziness with all your muscle.
I felt like sharing this with you, and I do hope it inspires someone. God bless you as you thread on the path to greatness
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