For some, the room is a chilling space and it’s meant for enjoyment of all sorts while to others it’s a library which is mostly common when all seats are filled and some decided to turn the school library to their bedrooms, then you know exam is stepping into the room. Some also prefer staying glued to their rooms in order to avoid being stalked up by mates who only stroll about the reading rooms aimlessly looking for who to call “ iwe!“, “First classer!“, “efiko!“.
This idea to some people is like barking up the wrong tree as they can hardly cope reading in the room without distractions while some are comfortable with it, it varies.
Here are some of the things to ensure if you are one of the Students Who Study In The Room/ Hostel.
KEEP YOUR PHONE FAR FROM YOU:
The truest greatness lie you will tell yourself is to keep your phone at a distance less than 20metres and claim you are reading. It works if you are using itel N205 on which the only meaningful thing you can do is text your dad, even calling a friend on such phone won’t be clear, something like future’s voice. But a blackberry user, who has pings screaming up every minute will find it difficult to ignore the messages and concentrate. You might also decide to check a friend’s updated status after being notified by Facebook, or probably check Linda Ikeji for some smart rumours. If
possible, do away with your phone while reading in your room.
DON’T ANNOUNCE YOUR AVAILABILITY:
If you are to study successfully in your room,
endeavor to make yourself seem unavailable to neighbours. This is like the best thing since sliced bread for ladies pretty ladies. It’s obviously inevitable for you to stop that guy from coming around your room even though you shunned him the previous day. Therefore, the best you could do is to pretend like you are
away for that moment in order not to be caught between two stools.
AVOID USING THE BED:
Reading in your room and you are comfortably lying on the bed with your legs
crossed? I doubt if education was that comfortable. In such condition, you are bound
to sleep off at any moment and you will discover you have actually gained nothing. That is a far cry from what is referred to as serious reading. I’d rather you got a study desk with a chair of corresponding height and make use of it.
KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT:
“Messi better pass Ronaldo na!”, “Nicki Minaj’s assets are artificial!”, “Mr Ibu has a pumped stomach!“…These are useless arguments that you can’t help but listen to in students’ hostels. You must learn to keep your mouth and ears
shut when issues like this ensue. If you are the type that can’t do but jump up and take the matter to the head as if Nicki Minaj was your
cousin then kindly pack up your books and head to the library, because you will definitely get distracted.
The wise man bridges the gap to success by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. If you know you are not the type that can read in the hostel, don’t deceive yourself. Head to the library to read what you have to read and leave the rest to God.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
HOW TO EARN EXTRA INCOME AS A STUDENT
The best thing after fried egg is making extra
income as an undergraduate, it makes you partially or totally independent on your parents and most importantly, financially buoyant. I guess what’s riding through your mind now is “ yahoo!!! runs babe!!!” Cut those crap. There are so many legit means of making money as a student, it’s all about being smart. There are countless numbers of people who make huge amount of money with their common sense by just doing sideline activities within the campus.
The following are some practicable means to raise some liquid cash for yourself as an undergraduate. So, read along, How To Earn Extra Income As A Student:
Buying and Reselling of Laptops and
Mobile gadgets : Nigerians, especially students love splashy trends, minding not the exorbitant prices. In fact, exorbitant gadgets are considered a do or die affair by some extravagant children of pot-bellied politicians. It’s somewhat easy, you can easily get these gadgets at give away prices from online shops like Alibaba and Aliexpress and resell at the rate of up to 40% gain.
Applying For Scholarship/Bursary
Awards : It’s always wise to draw up a list of
scholarship awards available to Nigerian
Students, especially the ones you are eligible
for. The amount awarded as bursary or
scholarships could range from N50,000 to
N250,000 per annum depending on who and on what basis the award is being given.
Teaching/Tutorials : Package yourself and arrange some interested students as you organize tutorial classes and charge them peanuts. You’ll get a mad rush if they know you teach well but charge little. You can even
organize tutorial classes for University students for courses where there’s mass failure or students have difficulty passing. Mind you, if you know nothing about something you claim to teach, students might fall your hand though.
Selling of Recharge Cards : Sounds ridiculous? Just go and ask those who do so in
student hostels. By the time you rake in a gain of #300 per day, making roughly #9,000 per month, you are a step ahead of being broke.
Own A Website : This is a no-brainer as the details behind it is not far-fetched. Though it sounds somehow technical, which is really not. It’s interestingly profitable for a student
considering the circumstances around the world we are in.
Freelancing : Do you have any special skill probably needed by some people out there, then serch online for freelancing websites. Fiverr, for instance.
Participating In Talent Hunts : Manifest your talent in school and earn real cash and
pretty healthy fame. If you can rap, dance, sing, design, decorate, act, even somersault, what are you waiting for?
Grab your passion and take it to where the cash is.
Cracking Network Provider Cheats And Selling Data Bundle : This is also somehow technical but a very huge way of making money as a student on campus. Students can’t do without surfing the net, which can’t be done without their phones getting equipped with the required browsing data. They will flood your door if you have the know-how of such and you are ready to offer the service.
Bead Making : This is a very lucrative business, that also requires a very low start up
capital. All you have to do is acquire the required skills.
Movie Rental/Supply Services : Students do claim school is hard but still factorise out that time to watch movies. You can also factorise out a living out of that, supply them with as much movies as they might want to
watch, charging proportionately. Equip yourself with latest movies and post notices around the hood about your service, they will
come. Just sit back and watch them in 3D.
Organizing Events : After carrying out feasibility studies on what kind of event might pull traffic. Venture into it. e.g Organise an
event where you call the local rap champions to perform. You pay them penny while those who also come to watch pay penny, you will probably get a profit at the end of the day.
“Probably”, because if people end up not turning up, you are on your own o.
income as an undergraduate, it makes you partially or totally independent on your parents and most importantly, financially buoyant. I guess what’s riding through your mind now is “ yahoo!!! runs babe!!!” Cut those crap. There are so many legit means of making money as a student, it’s all about being smart. There are countless numbers of people who make huge amount of money with their common sense by just doing sideline activities within the campus.
The following are some practicable means to raise some liquid cash for yourself as an undergraduate. So, read along, How To Earn Extra Income As A Student:
Buying and Reselling of Laptops and
Mobile gadgets : Nigerians, especially students love splashy trends, minding not the exorbitant prices. In fact, exorbitant gadgets are considered a do or die affair by some extravagant children of pot-bellied politicians. It’s somewhat easy, you can easily get these gadgets at give away prices from online shops like Alibaba and Aliexpress and resell at the rate of up to 40% gain.
Applying For Scholarship/Bursary
Awards : It’s always wise to draw up a list of
scholarship awards available to Nigerian
Students, especially the ones you are eligible
for. The amount awarded as bursary or
scholarships could range from N50,000 to
N250,000 per annum depending on who and on what basis the award is being given.
Teaching/Tutorials : Package yourself and arrange some interested students as you organize tutorial classes and charge them peanuts. You’ll get a mad rush if they know you teach well but charge little. You can even
organize tutorial classes for University students for courses where there’s mass failure or students have difficulty passing. Mind you, if you know nothing about something you claim to teach, students might fall your hand though.
Selling of Recharge Cards : Sounds ridiculous? Just go and ask those who do so in
student hostels. By the time you rake in a gain of #300 per day, making roughly #9,000 per month, you are a step ahead of being broke.
Own A Website : This is a no-brainer as the details behind it is not far-fetched. Though it sounds somehow technical, which is really not. It’s interestingly profitable for a student
considering the circumstances around the world we are in.
Freelancing : Do you have any special skill probably needed by some people out there, then serch online for freelancing websites. Fiverr, for instance.
Participating In Talent Hunts : Manifest your talent in school and earn real cash and
pretty healthy fame. If you can rap, dance, sing, design, decorate, act, even somersault, what are you waiting for?
Grab your passion and take it to where the cash is.
Cracking Network Provider Cheats And Selling Data Bundle : This is also somehow technical but a very huge way of making money as a student on campus. Students can’t do without surfing the net, which can’t be done without their phones getting equipped with the required browsing data. They will flood your door if you have the know-how of such and you are ready to offer the service.
Bead Making : This is a very lucrative business, that also requires a very low start up
capital. All you have to do is acquire the required skills.
Movie Rental/Supply Services : Students do claim school is hard but still factorise out that time to watch movies. You can also factorise out a living out of that, supply them with as much movies as they might want to
watch, charging proportionately. Equip yourself with latest movies and post notices around the hood about your service, they will
come. Just sit back and watch them in 3D.
Organizing Events : After carrying out feasibility studies on what kind of event might pull traffic. Venture into it. e.g Organise an
event where you call the local rap champions to perform. You pay them penny while those who also come to watch pay penny, you will probably get a profit at the end of the day.
“Probably”, because if people end up not turning up, you are on your own o.
LECTURERS’ BEHAVIOURS THAT AFFECTS STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCES
Lecturers in KSU/PAAU exhibit some characters that do affect the outcome of students, here is a bit of them :
Skipping Classes : Some lecturers in our tertiary institutions fathom joy from this. Should we call it laziness? Or nonchalant attitude? They are probably into other private businesses to better their own lives, thereby hardly getting the chance to come and take classes. Then when the exam is around corner, they show up out of the middle of nowhere in
particular and bombard students with notes and materials to read on their own.
Lecturing Instead Of Teaching : Breaking
it down, if he faces the board as he murmurs to himself or dictates notes non-stop without
no explanation whatsoever, caring not about the students, he lectures. If he’s always explaining and engaging with the students, asking them if they understand and speaking loud enough for them to hear him, he teaches. The difference is understandable, if a lecturer
adopts the lecturing habit, students tend to perform not so good.
Setting Exam Based On What They Never Taught In Class (common in NAT.SC) : They probably believe that students will read above the syllabus and go off what has been taught in class, the guess is not always right though.
Students will just keep staring at the exam paper on the exam day. Not that they did not
read, but the lecturer did not set what he taught them.
Having Evil Mind sets Towards Students : Just because a lecturer did not have A in a course during his undergraduate days, he will mark students down so none of them will have an A. Bad!
Being Careless With Test And Exam
Scripts : Some of our lecturers do not have good record keeping habit not to talk of arranging documents in an orderly manner. In the process of handling test or exam scripts, they misplace some and the student get no result when the result is released.
Failing Endowed Female Students Who Refuse To Satisfy Their Sexual Urge : Some female students are really endowed, not to lie. So once they apply and you turn down their application, you will fail their course till they retire.
Fixing Short Notcie For Exams Or Fixing
Impromptu Tests : Some deliberately do this to record mass failure and probably catch those who are not reading or getting along with the course. Wicked act.
Copying And Pasting Mumu Handouts
From The Internet : They just go on google and search for a key phrase concerning the subject matter, thumb through the results and fortunately find a matching page. Then they download the page word for word and print it
out for students. This habit makes no sense.
Not Accommodating Questions – Some lecturers will just shut you down or yab education out of you if you dare ask them question in class. They have probably forgotten
that customers are always right.
Not Wanting Students To Graduate With A First Class Degree : According to the common conspiracy theory in KSU/PAAU, lecturers deliberately don't want students to graduate with a first class degree irrespective of how good the students is. The moment you're climbing up, they try as much as possible to pull you down. This according to what they say, is because this lecturers are "afraid" of the fact that the university might retain such student, putting their own job at risk.
Bonus : They Fail Students Intentionally So They Pay "Tithe" To Them (SORTING)
The question however,is it possible (ever) for them to adjust ?
J.L.O
Skipping Classes : Some lecturers in our tertiary institutions fathom joy from this. Should we call it laziness? Or nonchalant attitude? They are probably into other private businesses to better their own lives, thereby hardly getting the chance to come and take classes. Then when the exam is around corner, they show up out of the middle of nowhere in
particular and bombard students with notes and materials to read on their own.
Lecturing Instead Of Teaching : Breaking
it down, if he faces the board as he murmurs to himself or dictates notes non-stop without
no explanation whatsoever, caring not about the students, he lectures. If he’s always explaining and engaging with the students, asking them if they understand and speaking loud enough for them to hear him, he teaches. The difference is understandable, if a lecturer
adopts the lecturing habit, students tend to perform not so good.
Setting Exam Based On What They Never Taught In Class (common in NAT.SC) : They probably believe that students will read above the syllabus and go off what has been taught in class, the guess is not always right though.
Students will just keep staring at the exam paper on the exam day. Not that they did not
read, but the lecturer did not set what he taught them.
Having Evil Mind sets Towards Students : Just because a lecturer did not have A in a course during his undergraduate days, he will mark students down so none of them will have an A. Bad!
Being Careless With Test And Exam
Scripts : Some of our lecturers do not have good record keeping habit not to talk of arranging documents in an orderly manner. In the process of handling test or exam scripts, they misplace some and the student get no result when the result is released.
Failing Endowed Female Students Who Refuse To Satisfy Their Sexual Urge : Some female students are really endowed, not to lie. So once they apply and you turn down their application, you will fail their course till they retire.
Fixing Short Notcie For Exams Or Fixing
Impromptu Tests : Some deliberately do this to record mass failure and probably catch those who are not reading or getting along with the course. Wicked act.
Copying And Pasting Mumu Handouts
From The Internet : They just go on google and search for a key phrase concerning the subject matter, thumb through the results and fortunately find a matching page. Then they download the page word for word and print it
out for students. This habit makes no sense.
Not Accommodating Questions – Some lecturers will just shut you down or yab education out of you if you dare ask them question in class. They have probably forgotten
that customers are always right.
Not Wanting Students To Graduate With A First Class Degree : According to the common conspiracy theory in KSU/PAAU, lecturers deliberately don't want students to graduate with a first class degree irrespective of how good the students is. The moment you're climbing up, they try as much as possible to pull you down. This according to what they say, is because this lecturers are "afraid" of the fact that the university might retain such student, putting their own job at risk.
Bonus : They Fail Students Intentionally So They Pay "Tithe" To Them (SORTING)
The question however,is it possible (ever) for them to adjust ?
J.L.O
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