The aim of every
innocent high school kid is to join college and pursue a career of his or her
dream but is this really achieved by most college graduates? The answer to this
question is that it depends on what college you join and the life you choose to
live while there. Most people fallaciously think that being focused and ambitious
about your class work while in college has anything to do with success in the life
after but my answer is an absolutely big No!
College’s class life
has nothing to do with the achievements you make in life after college because
the world treats you depending on your perspective about it! People suck with all the work hard, be focused
in your studies and homework crap but life in college should be a lesson about how
to undertake your future. I have been looking at my college mates and the lives
they live today, considering that I personally knew their behaviors while we
were there, and most of them, me included, are not employed because we independently
started some of the most successful businesses and we now employ the focused,
hardworking class work gurus and graduates from college.
My friends and I could
not be referred to as “focused” and we have made great strides in the life
after graduation. We were the party all night, every day group who never really
saw the need to take college class work seriously. I know most of you will hate
this but I am going to say it anyway! I have been trying to count the total number
of hours attended in college lectures and they do not add up to more than five
hundred considering my course had 52 units with a required average attendance
of about 35 hours per unit making it an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred
and twenty (1820) boring lectures hours. These hours (the less than five hundred)
exclude the time allocated to my continuous assessments tests commonly known as
CATs and the final exams.
Most of our time (my friends’
and mine) was not spent in class but in acquiring the real life lessons that
college had to offer. Believe me if you do not understand life while in college
you might live the rest of it trying to figure out where you went wrong and the
painful truth is that you will never get back on track. College taught me that
life and everything else is not what it seems to be and that for you to make a breakthrough
in it, you must be unique and very different from everyone else –a free God
given gift for each and every individual in this world!
Here is a list of the
things that I really loved in college.
- Partying!
–Our halls had a party every night which my friends and I used to get attendance
invitations and in some occasions we would be the organizers!
- Drinking
alcohol-Ooh yeah! I took a lot of alcohol then which has made me set a
consumption limit of up to five bottles if I have to do it today and this
happens when sealing big business deals only! You might think that I am
misleading but the truth is most of the people who never drank then
changed abruptly after college. I asked one of my former college mates why
he suddenly started taking alcohol after getting a good job (this happened
after we graduated of course) and these were his exact words – “back then
I never knew that alcohol was this sweet!” This is what went through my
mind after he uttered those words …..”Alcohol is not sweet when you have other
major responsibilities in life; the fact is that you are dragging your ass
behind in meeting other aspects and responsibilities of life”.
In
short, life has a lot of responsibilities to meet other than drinking, this is
what you should have done in college where the only responsibility you had then
was only attending your lectures / doing your homework or assignments backed
by the fact that you had all the time and energy to get drank every day of the
week.
- Speaking
of homework, I am thankful to Google and all the homework help services
that were at my disposal then because were it not for them I could never
have submitted any original homework or worse still fail to submit any
homework at all!
Considering that I majored in accounting, my
lecturers were fond of giving us a lot of accounting homework, statistics homework,
marketing homework, business homework, math homework, human resource management
homework, business studies homework, management accounting homework, management
science homework, insurance studies homework, economics homework, financial
markets homework, operations management homework, risk management homework and
finance homework which I had little or no time to attend to. With all these
homework and having no time to attend on them since I was “busy” taking life’s real lessons, I had to either pay for my
homework to get done or get homework help services from the homework help services
websites on the web.
- The
next thing that I loved while in college is business. Where do you think I
got the money to make my college life a blast from? I started my first
business as a liquor distributor while in my college dorm. As I said most
of my friends were the anti-class, pro alcohol, anti homework group and
they needed a constant twenty four hours place to get alcohol from. I
started selling alcohol with shots of liquor when one of my friend found
me taking it and asked whether he would take a tot, this was my exact response
to him “Yes but you have to pay for it!” This bottle of liquor was one of
my many girlfriend’s back then birthday gift to me and luckily that was
one of the rare days that his (my friend) wallet was smiling so he paid
for some shots! From that point on,
I started strategizing on how to sell as well as consume alcohol-which I was
really good at- in campus. I implemented
my plan vigorously and the rest is history but my business boomed
considering that most students were in great demand of the product!
In short this is what I
am trying to tell college students!
College is not high school, while going to college
is an important and a must do thing in life, you must also learn to face the real
facts of life and one of them is to be independent both mentally and financially
from that point going forward. College class work i.e. attending your lectures
and doing your homework only teaches you about 20% of the things you should
learn while there. 80% percent of the teachings in college are from the
activities you do and they are all about how you shall handle life after
graduation. It is in college that most couples meet and they end up starting
families which form the foundation of every nation. If you do not enjoy your life in college, you
will end up doing the shit you were supposed to do then when you are a family
man or woman and you shall absolutely look like an idiot to your kids, spouse
and the society at large!!
Enjoy your college life
and may you reach the brim of success after college!
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