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Submitted by: Kesiena U.
Delta State, NigeriaI am a God lover, and a singer. One thing I love is seeing people happy. I am 26 years of age. I love traveling, meeting new people, and making new friends. I am an introvert and also to an extent, an extrovert.
I first gained admission into the University, Delta State University, to study chemistry in the year 2012. I was attending classes and all was going well until I wrote my first exams and my results came out. It turned out my results were really poor. I failed even the simplest of courses. I couldn’t inform my parents about it because I was so scared. It continued that way until my 300 level. I failed courses repeatedly every semester and it moved me into depression. My rate of failure was so high that I was placed on probation because I had courses piled up that I had not yet passed. I was so depressed that I thought about committing suicide but I couldn’t. It was obvious that I could not continue anymore because my grades were so low.
A lot of people at this point mocked me including my classmates. I would hide sometimes when I would see them walking on the road because I was ashamed. I felt rejected. I decided to drop out of school and one way or the other, I informed my parents about the situation. They were shocked because all this while, they never knew what was happening. I dropped out and then I decided to start all over.
In the year 2017, I gained another admission into the department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the same University. I knew a lot of people would probably have gone to another University but I chose to go back to the same University. Many times when I was in class, some of my mates who had previously graduated would walk in, maybe to give some info to the newly admitted students, of which I was one of them. But I did not let that weigh me down. This time, I gained admission into a stronger department. It was under the Medical Sciences. With God on my side, persistence, and faith, I graduated in October 2021 from the department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. I graduated with a second class upper (2:1) and it all looked like a dream to me. Truly, you can achieve anything if you believe. Now I see those previous classmates of mine and I can raise my head up high.
I hope my story will encourage those who are having academic challenges. It is not the end of the world. You can do better. I did it and so you can.