EDITORIAL: A NEW SEMESTER; A RENEWED VITALITY; RENEWAL OF ASPIRATIONS

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s ending”

“The real beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn a new leaf every hour if you choose.”Arnold Bennet

It is with these words that we welcome you back to the campus after a very short break. The first semester is just a part of a session while a session in itself is a fraction of a whole – our course of study, whether it is a three-year programme, four-year programme, five-year programme or six-year programme. Therefore, we must not rest on our oars since the goal has not been attained yet. Our journey to bag B.A., B.Sc, B.Ed, B.Pharm, MB;BS, etc. is a tale of our continuous intellectual striving. Whatever your status as far as Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is concerned, remember the first semester is not enough to determine your overall end result.

Perhaps, it is on that note one should re-emphasise that a semester is a semester pregnant with a whole lot of activities. For students who have had no experience of how semester looks like, this point must be reiterated that activities in the second semester are usually more than that of the first. The events range from class party to departmental week, from faculty week to hall week, elections into different offices in departmental and faculty students’ associations as well as the hall. We do not in any way preach against active participation in these events. NO! What we advocate is moderation and focus. It is over active involvement in these events that some people lose it all in the University. Our primary assignment must not be traded for these events as many have done even in the recent past. Need we cite examples of those rusticated or expelled due to their hyper enthusiastic commitment in the activities of hall week et al.? The experience of Idia/Zik of the last session still stare us in the face.

For the finalists, this is meant to be the last leg and the last leg is as important as the first three legs in any race. We therefore urge you all to be vigilant and be more committed to the cause to which you have dedicated yourself in past years. Remember that salvation only goes to the he that endures to the end. Apart from guarding yourself against academic slackness, make also a determined effort not to be frustrated by some persons who “Satan” has planned to use to upset your career. We beseech you at this juncture to familiarise yourself once more with the Students’ Information Handbook to read the dos and don’ts of the University as they concern students’ conducts on campus. You cannot be over careful in this regard. Again, evidence abound of people who lost it only in their final semester on their campus.

Furthermore, it becomes imperative to warn against any over-confident attitude to results. It is doubtful whether any student has seen their results for the last semester. Therefore, those that fail courses they expected to pass have yet to grapple with the reality of their first semester assessment. The same goes for those who thought they wobbled in some exams but they miraculously got favour in the sight of the examiner. What the foregoing simply means is that many if not all are still in the dark about the result of their intellectual striving for the previous semester. We therefore implore everyone to equip themselves with the most efficient shock absolver they could get within their domain. We have heard cases of people fainting after they have seen their results while some lost confidence in themselves and consequently derailed in their aspirations.

To conclude, we wish to emphasise that the second semester offers an opportunity for renewed hopes, a renewed vitality and renewed aspirations. We have heard stories of people who got promotion from second class upper to first class in their final year while some had upward mobility from second class lower to second class upper also in their final year. Conversely, some had downward mobility in that regard. Either of the mobility is possible depending on the attitude of the driver making the movement.

UCJUI wishes you all a successful and progressive second semester as we continue to serve you better in bringing information to your doorstep.

 

EDITORIAL CREW

Tope Lanre Bello – Editor-in-Chief

Amos Adejinmi  – member

Tobi Idowu – member

Haleem Olatunji  – member

Pascaline Opeodu    – member

Oyindamola Ajibike – member

Mujeeb Jummah  – member

Itunu Ayilara     – member

Son-Simon Adejobi – member

Sodiq Rufai  –    member

 

 

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