By : Josmat Jerry
The wakeup call ravages all around even though its sounds can only be heard by a conscious mind, the other part who behaves unnoticed will come to realize at the eleventh hour. Series of scripts has been written to alarm us of the new-normal in academic activities. Irrespective of how much we protest inwardly against the virtual learning or heartily accept it, no one can change the fact that the first semester lecture of 2020/2021 session is a virtual way.
Even though it’s not been a smooth running process since the introduction of the virtual learning up till the time, the tone still remains ‘why virtual?’. Even though we keep murmuring, making complains, throwing underneath sounds and refusing to give it a 100% mindset and focus, the ‘virtual way’ is the driver of first semester 2020/2021 academic session. The cries are just to hasten our minds and knock to our hearing to open our eyes and accept the situation as it is and learn to go the ‘virtual way’.
As a student of the premier university plays a high burden on us to deliver excellently well and if so we call ourselves intellects, its now time to prove we are of such. Adaptation to the new process is a mode in finding balance in time like this. Though, the online lecture is new to us with no experience but our web usage experience should be able to serve as a mini or scratch foundation in this. A mind of intellectual excels in any situation it dwells in. Considering how much weeks we’ve spent in this semester, it’s high time we adapted to this new process.
Some of us might have negative thoughts toward this virtual system hoping it does not last long. Either way, having such a feeling in respect of this learning mode is not the right sense. The feeling we express towards this system is very essential because such literally tells of how much we get used to it. The right feeling to depict in time like this is meant to be a positive one.
As we sway on into the weeks of the semester, we should take reading and studying serious as we’ve always been doing. Generalizing a notion of how we go about studying during physical lectures should be used for this virtual lecture by taking lectures serious even when we already have the course materials with us. Lecturers tend to tell more and give further balanced explanation during lectures which might be what will swim into our minds and stick there for us to check back upon. For those who have not been taking the semester serious, it’s not too late to sit back, tighten their bet and face the reality and task at hand. The virtual way is the path of the moment, let’s face it with a determined mind.
For the fresh students (including DE students), it’s not vague the current system has been uneasy and quite unlucky. But, you must kindly note that surviving in this kind of situation literally means you can go through any occurrence academically in this institution. Expectations of your heart upon securing admission has been the opposite of it upon resumption but sorry not, you can still make the best out of the current situation, that first class ambition of yours can still have achieved, all required of you is to remain positive, have a determined mindset and place much hope on your academic goals. Move closer to friends of ambitions type, seek help from who knows more than you in your course line, always ask questions on things you know not and pray well as if you are seeking for glory.
The task at hand is one of the challenges we have to face in our process of been that of strong in our line of endeavours and emerging as victorious at the long run speaks of how mentally and emotionally strong we are. The virtual way is a mode that emerges to fish out new things in us, let’s have a positive feeling towards it so as to take the best things out of it.
