WAKE UP CALL.......By Adefila Abdullahi Ayodeji
How is it possible for a poorly prepared students to succeed and a highly qualified student failed. A poorly prepared student with very poor preparation and limited ability, student who had to take college algebra three times before making a passing grade, student who fail trigonometry and had to repeat it, some of this student took more than 5 years of full time study to complete their Bachelor of science degree in engineering, but after some years he becomes a successful professional engineer and a respected member of his community. While a highly qualified student who had gone to the best high schools and had excelled in their advanced mathematics and science courses,yet they did not succeed in engineering study. Some flunked out, some just dropped out and give up. The common denominator for such student was that they were overconfident. They made the mistake of assuming that life after becoming an engineer would be like the one they live in school, they naively believed that their ability would carry them through as it had before. They failed to account for the fact that the faster pace and higher expectations for learning would require substantially more effort and improves learning skills. They didn't recognize that the had move from minor leagues to the major leagues, where the people the are competing against had much more ability. It saddens when you hear that they're working in unrewarding jobs for minimum salaries and to go back and start again but now the circumstances of their lives prevent them from having a second chance.
I hope you are not such a student. One early indication of this is how receptive you are to this write up. Thinking there is nothing of value here for you is a sign that you are overconfident. If you are, hope you will consider this as a wake up call.
Thinking of what are the key to success in engineering and all other field!!! What are those things you can do that will virtually ensure your success. Achieving success is a process,and each step in the process can be learned, so wake up brother and sister, go out there and learn what can make you a better person tomorrow, learn things that won't be teach in class, learn new things,exploit this world just for a brighter tomorrow. I would encourage you to make a commitment to become an "expert" on success. It's something that you can do. And the payoff will be enormous.
#don't limit your learning to school curriculum
#for better tomorrow Nigeria need positive idilogy from you and me.
#we are black engineers, and all we do is to build the nation. I hope these write up makes front page as to enable all Nigerian students to glean and learn from it .
God bless you, God bless . # MR.BAYO from UNILORIN.

Good Advice