At every little spec, and every individual level, there an enduring
image that rides on the mind of every Futarian: Technology for Self
Reliance.
Yet, the university literarily serves every student some
career-irrelevant courseware day in day out that they may truly be
forced indeed, into self reliance by graduation. Self reliance in the
context that, after a minimum study period of five years, you are
forced to join the league of job-seekers with little to none set of
disposable skills.
Months ago, I heard about a year 4 Electrical Electronics Engineering
student who could not connect up a ceiling fan! Most of the students
studying, supposedly, computer science down here at FUTA can barely
write a functional computer program, be it Q-BASIC or its other
archaic remnants. The state of nothingness we study here, will shock
you.
First, you begin with the near hopeless path of finding who to blame.
Do you heap the blame on the school management, are the student
culpable? Is it the case that the school concentrates on the minor
irrelevant school courses to the detriment of other core skill
transfer courses? Are the lecturers – most of them seemingly content
with brandishing their cars, their titles, professor this, professor
Mrs. that – even that competent in the kind of knowledge and skills
that the Nigerian society really need?
In the end, none of those questions would matter, or haunt you as that
of why it is the case that the body of students down here grow and
bask in cheer complacency.
Sometimes, I am shocked to see some people waste their time in the
university under the most out-of-hell excuse of all “I am only here
for the certificate.”
My friend and I both study Mathematical Sciences, in fact Industrial
Mathematics, but truth be told, there is nothing Industrial about what
we have done here so far.
We got tired of complaining or wondering about the usefulness or lack
of it, of the courses and classes we have had so far that, one day we
decided to seek someone – a lecturer to be precise, to raise this
issue with; in our minds, someone to relieve us from our near everyday
dissatisfaction.
So we ended up in the office of one of the youngest lecturers
available down here at FUTA. It was an easy decision to go for him. My
friend and I had thought he would be accessible and he would be
willing to reason with us.
True, Mr. Lecturer welcomed us into his office but before we could
even settle in, we noticed he was working on a strange software
application on his laptop, so we quickly asked him “what is the
relevance of that software to his profession and how could it help
us?”
We were to discover from his response that only himself and one other
young lecturer that could use the application in the entire
institution. He then made us to understand that as it is, no lecturer
is willing to educate students about the application of any course; Or
In order words, we were told “chaps, get out there on the Internet, if
you really want to improve your interests in your specific course of
study, or any other area in fact, so when you graduate you can then
have an idea of what the real world demands…”
He summarily informed us that the success of every student, in the
modern era, in whichever career field he finds himself lies in his
hands. You do not have any excuse to fail. And in case you were born
without a silver spoon, buy one for yourself.
Lots of students are ignorant of these modern realities. So my dear
students, while you are in school, do not burn away your time.
The ultimate battle for self reliance is solely on you and you alone.
And it is only the ones who knows and acknowledge these on time that
finds wisdom.
If you disregard it, you would be left to the full understanding of
Federal University of Tension and Agony!
A word…
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