Are You Having A Tough Time In Your Academics? Before You Commit Suicide (Read This Story)

I just have a feeling this may be useful
here for some categories of students.
Let me quickly share my story with
you….
The best sermon is one’s personal
experience. I left secondary school in
2004. By 2005, I got admitted to a
state university in Ekiti State. After
two years of studies in Ekiti state, I
discovered the program I was
enrolled into was not accredited. To
make the story worse, nearly all
lecturers in the faculty of science
avidly disliked everything about the
program. It was called SLT then.
Consequently, they mark down our
papers. Not only that, they called us
all sorts of names like NFA,
unfortunate students and the likes
anyone who attended the university
and did that course can attest to
what I am saying. My dad happened
to be a staff of the University, so I
told him about the poor grades,
everything I heard about the
program and the intensity of the
lecturer’s hatred for the program all
to no avail. All he said was
whenever students don’t want to
read, they come up with different
flimsy excuses so I kept mute.
After five years of my life in that
school, my dad was made one of the
board members of the faculty so he
saw the whole results since the
inception of the program. He saw so
may spill over students from year
2000, and the fact that the program
has not been accredited. I was in
500 level (final year) then with a lot
of carry over courses…..carry over is
not a big deal in that
program….people had 15. It was so
worse that from 300level, you can be
so sure you are already a spill over
student. My father saw how bad it
was and he immediately invited me
to his office for a meeting. He
blamed himself for not listening to
me when I complained 3 years
earlier and he said he would want
me to transfer immediately. That
was how I took my transcript using
his influence. I was the first person
ever and possibly the last person to
get a transcript from the program. I
returned to 200level in another
school entirely when I ought to
graduate with maybe a third class or
a pass.
I wasted 5years of my life in Ekiti
state University and as a result, i was
so sad and depressed. Merely sitting
with my younger brother’s age mate
turned my stomach in anger. Infact
when I got to the new school, my
own younger brother who I
happened to be ahead of by 3years
became my senior. The retrogression
started affecting my grades such that
attending classes became a burden.
Along the line, I sat myself down and
reasoned deeply about how my life
has been. For crying out loud, I used
to be one of the best students in
secondary school. I was only
unfortunate to have attended the
wrong program in Ekiti. Though I
wasn’t given any certificate despite
the number of years spent but what
about the life lessons I learnt?
From that day onward, I made a
concrete decision to change my
attitude towards my new classmates
and I began to humble myself to a
fault. Above all, I began to see my
new school as the golden opportunity
to start afresh again. My declining
grades all of a sudden began to soar
so high such that I had 5.0/5.0 in one
of the semesters with a bit of
dedication and I ended finishing top
5 out of the class
Today, I am currently in Canada on
a graduate program fully funded by
a Canadian university. Up till now, I
am yet to spend a dime of myself in
Canada because the scholarship
covered everything. Guess what? I
even got two scholarships from two
different universities and just last
week, I got another funding again.
Yes just last week! What if I had
committed suicide then? Would I
have seen the goodness almighty God
has packaged in my future today?
What I am saying in essence is you
can fall as much as possible but
whenever you fall and refuse to rise
again is when you failed. The
righteous shall fall seven times…..but
they shall rise again.
Conclusively, whatever the case
maybe, dust up yourself and try
again. Do not give up so easily
because winners never quit and
quitters never win. I am sure very
soon you gonna look back and smile.
Every successful man or woman at
some point had a share of that
gloomy period when you feel you are
all alone and the world is about
coming down on you. But I am
happy to announce to you that alot
of people have tread this same path
and today they have become success
and point of reference in the society.
My brothers and sisters, it is never
how far, but how well and tough
time never lasts tough people do!!!!!!