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Today’s motivational short story focuses on life’s important things.

What are the things that should be prioritized in your life? Motivational short stories that get you inspired.

The professor and his students.

A certain professor who teaches philosophy in a university stood before his students on a beautiful day. He had some items with him which placed on the table.

When the class started, he picked up one of the items on the table which happened to be a rather large and empty jam jar. Calmly without saying anything, he went ahead to fill the jar with rocks, small rocks about 0.0508 Meters in diameter.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students when he finally spoke.
“Yes, it is”, they chorused.

A box of pebbles was part of the items, he picked it up and poured the pebbles into the jam jar. With a light force, he should the jar. It is expected of the pebbles to roll into the open areas between the rocks and of course, they did.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students the second time.
“Yes, it is”. They agreed.

The professor then picked up a jar of sand and poured the contents into the same jar. The sand did as the pebbles, they filled up the open areas of the jar.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students once more.
Their answers did not change as they responded with the same YES.

What each items represent.

The rocks: These are the important things in your life. They are Your family, your spouse, your health , genuine friends , kids if you have any. They are things that if you lost everything else, with them still there with you , your life would still be full.

The pebbles: Oh, they are things that
matter. They are important and needed in life. They are your career, your job, your business, your material things cars, houses etc.

The sand: These are everything else that make up your life. The small stuff, if you can them that.

If he had poured the sand into the jam jar first , there wouldn’t be any room left for the rocks or the pebbles .

This logic applies to your life. If you spend all your valuable time and conserved energy on the sand , the small stuff, you will never have room for things that are really important to you the Rocks.

The message(s) here:

–Pay rapt attention to things that are very critical to your joy, happiness and being. Things that bring joy to your life .
–Play with your children . Check their school works. Clean the house together on cleaning days. Be fully involved in their lives.
–Take your spouse out on a date. Go to the cinemas with your lover . Go for shopping together.
–Organize dinner date with your friends.
Catch up on old times .
–Go for medical checkups . If you were
placed on medication for 7 days, complete your dosage.
–Exercise regularly. Sleep well

Source: Read full article here

Today’s motivational short story focuses on life’s important things.

What are the things that should be prioritized in your life? Motivational short stories that get you inspired.

The professor and his students.

A certain professor who teaches philosophy in a university stood before his students on a beautiful day. He had some items with him which placed on the table.

When the class started, he picked up one of the items on the table which happened to be a rather large and empty jam jar. Calmly without saying anything, he went ahead to fill the jar with rocks, small rocks about 0.0508 Meters in diameter.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students when he finally spoke.
“Yes, it is”, they chorused.

A box of pebbles was part of the items, he picked it up and poured the pebbles into the jam jar. With a light force, he should the jar. It is expected of the pebbles to roll into the open areas between the rocks and of course, they did.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students the second time.
“Yes, it is”. They agreed.

The professor then picked up a jar of sand and poured the contents into the same jar. The sand did as the pebbles, they filled up the open areas of the jar.

“Is this jar full?” He asked his students once more.
Their answers did not change as they responded with the same YES.

What each items represent.

The rocks: These are the important things in your life. They are Your family, your spouse, your health , genuine friends , kids if you have any. They are things that if you lost everything else, with them still there with you , your life would still be full.

The pebbles: Oh, they are things that
matter. They are important and needed in life. They are your career, your job, your business, your material things cars, houses etc.

The sand: These are everything else that make up your life. The small stuff, if you can them that.

If he had poured the sand into the jam jar first , there wouldn’t be any room left for the rocks or the pebbles .

This logic applies to your life. If you spend all your valuable time and conserved energy on the sand , the small stuff, you will never have room for things that are really important to you the Rocks.


–Pay rapt attention to things that are very critical to your joy, happiness and being. Things that bring joy to your life .
–Play with your children . Check their school works. Clean the house together on cleaning days. Be fully involved in their lives.
–Take your spouse out on a date. Go to the cinemas with your lover . Go for shopping together.
–Organize dinner date with your friends.
Catch up on old times .
–Go for medical checkups . If you were
placed on medication for 7 days, complete your dosage.
–Exercise regularly. Sleep well

Source: Read full article

Bukola displayed all these, Stunned! Surprised! Happy! Sad! at once and she is inviting everyone to come and dine with on the 20th of October, 2017 at the University of Ilorin. She is convoking that very day.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE JOURNEY, Stunned! Surprised! Happy! Sad!
It was the morning of the second Saturday in the month of October 2013. I woke up feeling lazy because I watched a Korean movie “Athena Goddess of War” all through the night.

I was so stuck in the movie that I couldn’t sleep until around 4am when the PHCN took the electricity. Then I had no choice than to sleep because I was already feeling dizzy.

Around 7:30am, the electricity was restored. I was happy because I dreamt about the movie in my sleep.. *laughs… Funny. I resumed back to the movie since it was a Saturday. I was jobless and free.

Then around 8:30am, my mobile phone beeped me a signal tone which was meant for a message. Meaning I have a message on my phone. I was nonchalant about it because I felt who would be so jobless to send me a text message early this morning if not my network provider. I ignored it.

After about 15 minutes. My mobile phone beeped again.. I’m like these useless people should let me enjoy my movie jare. Again I refused to check.

Few minutes again, 4 messages came in randomly and my phone kept beeping. I was so annoyed that I thought I would stop using Etisalat because of this unnecessary messages.
I ignored my phone for the third time.

Exactly 10:00am, my phone kept beeping and would not stop until I became very annoyed.
Finally, I picked up the phone only to see 10 messages on my phone. I opened one and I couldn’t believe the messages I was reading.

“Congratulations, you’ve been offered admission into the University of Ilorin. Visit www.unilorin.edu.ng to confirm this message.

I was stunned! Surprised! Happy! Sad! Confused all at a time. Wait! Am I dreaming? I’ve gotten an admission to my dream university…

Then I started dancing My pastor later called back. I told him unilorin gave me admission, he asked what course? I was silent because I was so filled with joy that I forgot to check their website.

I ran to the café, logged in and I saw my name and passport. Under it was a congratulations message.

Source of inspiration: Oluwabukola

I wrote my first jamb in 2009, the same year I wrote my first WAEC examination.
To my understanding, I was a bright student aiming for a bright future. I was pretty sure of a good jamb result that will secure a good place for me in any university of my choice.

Though I wanted to be a scientist, I put in to study medicine and surgery in the university because my dad wanted it.
When the jamb result came out my result was below the cut off for medicine.
I got a supplementary form and put in for veterinary medicine in one of the prestigious university in the country.

After all my efforts, admission eluded me. In 2010 I skipped jamb but went on to take the exam in 2011 again.
This time I chose microbiology and medical laboratory in good schools.
That year I was disappointed again as I didn’t secure any admission.

Then came 2012. I took the jamb examination again knowing in my heart that if I didn’t make it this time I will likely forget about university education.
I put in for microbiology again in the University of Ilorin.
When the jamb result came out, I missed the cut off by one mark.
I was disappointed but not discouraged.

She got a change of course form

I went for a change of course before the post utme and changed to plant biology after being advised to do so by a friend.
I went for the post utme and did well. Yet, I was not sure of my admission.

After some time, I checked my jamb portal and behold, Jamb had given me admission into the University of Ilorin to study plant biology.
Words cannot describe the joy I felt. I remember shouting and running up and down in my house.
I was filled with so much joy and my happiness could not be hidden.

When the school released their first list my name was there too. I was just so excited.
I was, after all, going to be a scientist.

Source of inspiration is: Mercy, a corp member

Every Nigerian student and parents know how difficult and challenging it is to gain admission into tertiary institutions these days.

It is an unclad truth that gaining admission into tertiary institutions nowadays is by luck.

By saying this, I don’t mean universities don’t have criteria for giving admission, of course, they do.

But my point is, even after meeting all the necessary requirements, most candidates are still been denied admission and this has brought frustration not only to students but parents as well.

This is why admission has become a golden opportunity to anyone who has it.

Everyone knows what it means and how it feels to get a golden opportunity, can you relate?

Of course, you should be able to.

That was how I felt when I gained admission, I was super excited.

I can’t remember the day it was, but sure it was one of the days in d week #Lolz.On that fateful day around noon, news got to me that my preferred university has started giving admission.

Adepeju, Student.

I’d typed in my jamb registration number and sent it.

The page that turned up brought up much information, unimportant to me, but I glanced at the admission status and it read “Chemistry"

Why wouldn’t I? When I had been checking for weeks and all I’d been getting was “no admission yet”.

Yeah, finally, I was going to be an undergraduate. I must have also had mixed feelings.

Well, chemistry was never my first choice, and it was my second time writing UTME and applying for my dream course.

I wanted Medicine, I applied the first year and UI didn’t give me a chance to write post UTME.

Maybe my result was not too good, but my scores could compete with the many candidates.

Chris, A corper

It was on a Wednesday afternoon on the 16th of October 2013, when my phone beeped.

I was almost on my way out, when my mum drew my attention to the message, upon seeing UNILORIN.
I wasn’t that surprised as I was expectant, but my mum was ‘hyper’ excited.

In fact, she read the message, and as unilorin custom, you’ll have to follow a link to check the course given.
I wasn’t yet excited cos had determined not to accept the admission if not given the course I chose.

I left home, and when I got back in the evening, I checked for the course and it was what I wanted Chemical Engineering.

My dream was to be a chemical engineer.

I was elated! I screamed ...

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Attitude towards life – CampusTalesBlog OCTOBER 9,

It is a beautiful Monday morning and CampusTalesBlog welcome to the #MondayMotivation segment.

Life is a mystery as many people believed.


Ask yourself these questions:
What attitude do you show towards this mystery?
How do you view this world?

Let’s move on but before we can, what is attitude itself?

This article’s topic was gotten from a teaching gathering attended by one of our staffs. It is of a great interest to us.

Attitude definitions
There are a lot of definitions used by different individuals.

You might have a definition in mind the moment you started reading this article.

Note: You can drop your definition in the comment box

The definitions:
Someone in the gathering said, “ Attitude is the way you carry yourself.”
Another person said, “ Attitude is your reaction to a certain situation. ”


One also gave this definition, Attitude is a state of mind or of arbitrary disposition .
What is arbitrary disposition you may wonder?


It is the usual way of someone. We might have often heard this, “oh! that’s her/his usual way of behaving”. It is also a common thing for people to say, “That’s how I think”

The above definition is what most people agreed with.
Another one is, Attitude is the way you relate or interact with people around you.

Read this short story:

There was a certain man who sells newspaper by the roadside. His roadside kiosk is made up of a table for the display of the newspaper, few plastic chairs to sit on and a shade.

Certain times, his customers sit on those chairs if they prefer to sit and read than to buy and take along with them. Two guys came down to his kiosk to purchase the day’s paper. One was his regular customer(R.C) while the other was a new customer(N.C). Now, this vendor shouted at the regular customer. “Place that down”, he shouted rudely and angrily at him. R.C placed the paper he was holding down and smiled. He picked up another paper instead.

Both men paid the vendor because N.C also bought a paper and went on their way. After walking some distance from the vendor.

They both engaged in a conversion.

N.C asked, “Did you not get angry at the way the vendor spoke to you?”

R.C replied, “Why would I?”

N.C the asked, “Why would you? The vendor was very rude to you”

R.C smiled and said, “That’s the way he behaves. He reacts to almost everyone in the same manner.”

N.C said, “That doesn’t matter. If it were to be me, I would have talked back to him in the same manner. After all, I will be paying him.

R.C smiled again and said, “I don’t want his attitude affect my beautiful day.
And they both went on their ways.

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Answer these questions:

You are a graduate and you have no job, what will be your attitude?

How will you see life if you a 30-something years old lady?

How do you carry yourself with life’s issues?

what can you say about the vendor and the old man in our stories?


Source: http://campustalesblog.com/attitude-towards-life-campustalesblog/

The most comprehensive note taking systems cannot be effective without your attention. Your part as a student is to have attention.

One of the most requirements, let’s say the most required is alertness. You must be at alert to take clear, purposeful notes.

You cannot just flow with the norm, “writing everything down”

Why is that? It is certain you’ve got that question in mind.

A lot of the information given by your lecturer during the course of the lecture will actually be useless to you.

If they are useless, will you learn anything new?

That’s why you can’t accept the norm of writing everything down.

Is it even possible to write everything down during a lecture?

Even if you are a fast writer, it is simply not possible.

There might be exceptions though. If you have witnessed such or you are ‘that fast writer’, do share with us using the comment box
Alert enough?


Next, you need to write or jot down the specific relevant points.

Don’t forget you need to alert enough to achieve this

This is going to be in quotes because it might not be able to meet up with your course lecture one-on-one to explain further.

If you’ve got issues in determining the precise relevant points for a particular lecture or topic, meeting up with your course lecturer immediately after the class is advised.
If that doesn’t work out, meet up with students in levels above yours to help you with that.

This means, during the class, you will have to go with the norms – Write down everything

The 2 to 6 Method

We are going to run through a method known as the 2 to 6 method. The reference to this method (George Mason University)

Students' note-taking techniques - 2 to 6 Method
What is this 2 to 6 method?

This method refers to the way you divide your notebook writing space. The way you divide a page you are likely going to write on.build 2 columns, mistreatment the line on the left of the page as your border. Then, once you take notes at school, use the six column for the notes and also the smaller a pair of

How do I do the division?

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Launching with - #MyPostUtmeTale since we are in the "season" of posting Utme screening exercise.


Shared by Victoria

I am a university graduate and I could remember the stress I went through during my “admission seeking” time. My post Utme tale.

Five post Utme exams in my life. Twice for university of Ilorin, one at University of Lagos, One at Federal University of Technology, Azure and Kwara state polytechnic.

Here is my post Utme exam tale. I was admitted after this Post Utme screening exercise. I wrote University of Ilorin post Utme June 2012. As someone who has not traveled out of Lagos before, I decided to choose University of Ilorin center instead of Lagos center at Oba Akran, Ikeja.

I got to Ilorin a day before the commencement of the screening. The journey was fascinating, I did not sleep (I don’t sleep when traveling). But this day, I decided not to even dose off as I would love to see new places. After 5 hours plus, our bus stopped at General and I got down looking around.

My friend who knew a student there already told me to get a cab from General and tell the driver, Tanke (She sent a text message actually). Laughing now, I had pronounced Tanke in English and that made me spend extra 1 hour at General.

Source: http://campustalesblog.com/2017/09/18/my-post-utme-tale-shared-by-victoria/

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