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Disclaimer: This is simply a work of imagination.
by Imiano of JusposBlog NG.

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*6:45 AM*
Tues, 2017.

On a very normal day I would wake from sleep calm, say my little prayers and prepare for the day's hassles, yes hassles, not hurdles but on this day, Tuesday 21, 2017, the gong of the rumour sank into my head as I sprang up from the soft material that constitute my bed, Ugochukwu had called me to announce that a shift has been made on our first semester examination timetable, "What?" I screamed as he broke the news to my auditory malleus.
"Guy, just start coming to school now, a change has been on our time table and the BIO251 has been rescheduled to hold by 8:00AM" he said through the phone. I couldn't hide my shock at the sudden turnout of events.

Bio251 was the course code for a Genetic study course we were due to take by 3pm the same day, while it would end by 6pm but the sudden turnout of things made it to be scheduled for 8:00am.

"Wow" I gushed out as I made for my cold bucket of water, at exactly 3.6 seconds after, I was already done with my bath as the theories of Evolution taught in one of the course's classes turned up in my head.

I could feel Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Larmack quarrelling in my head,
"I am the father of evolution" Jean Larmack boasted.
"Who told you?" Charles Darwin countered,
"I stated the theory of evolutiuon based on the theory of natural selection and survival of the fittest in and ecosystem" he continued.
"Ha ha, If you like go and claim that in the exam hall, I was the first person who stated the theory of evolution based on the use and disuse of organs." They kept quarrelling as I pleaded with them to keep quiet, I had to get to school first else I may not even have the chance to down their claims on my paper, I reasoned as I rubbed the last stroke of cream on my palm.

Food was the farthest thing on my mind, I was already at the gate when I remembered that I was not with my hankerchief, "Oh no" I yelled as I made to go back but the echoing voice of Ugochukwu over the phone some minutes ago held me still for a moment, looking at my phone's screen it was already 9:45AM, so I made the hard decision, to leave without a hanky, as it's usually called.

I had not covered the necessary topics treated in the course, so it gave me a halved confidence facing the exam, I had spent most of my tackling some of the courses I saw as the hard ones not minding that the one am to face today prides itself with being the second to the most voluminous course after ZOO201, at that point I wished Jean Larmarck, Robert hooke and the host of others who pioneered works in early genetics and cell evolution would come out physically and commune with me but it's just a wish of the mind. I had to face my fate head-on.

The time was already 10 o'clock when I jumped down from the short bus conveying us to the school, I live not too close to the campus so I had to board a bus to campus everyday.

"Hello, Ugoo" I spoke into the phone as I dialled his line to confirmed the state of things, just then I realized he had not picked, I waited, rather impatiently.

I was already giving up on the call when his hoarse voice came around,
"Imiano, come to the science village, we are there now" he said. With each drop of his words, the rate of my heart beat escalated, could they have started? Have I really missed this course? I puzzled as I hurriedly left the beautiful gate where the short vehicle stopped me few seconds ago.

Every information on my mind was scattered as I hurriedly moved across the tarred ground leading to the inside of the school, I tried to gather some of them and place them in order but that was forlorn hope, the two biology veterans continued their arguments and claims as I galloped down to Science Village (which houses most of the science faculties here) in Unizik, Awka campus.

[TO BE CONTINUED....]
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De Imiano @http://www.juspos..com

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precydamsel:
Weldone dude, unizik node easy, from staying in long que to buy post ume form, also standing frm management sci faculty to digital library, to high B.P that one passes through to chk results, to admin bla bla bla, well all thanks to God,am a 200level Entrepreneurial studies student of unizik,God will surely see us through

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Amen to your prayer o.

Talius:
Story, story. This science village rep. Thank God for your successful first year. Make good use of your holiday - November will be here before you know it, sophomore years are usually the hardest because of increases expectations. I wish you all the best bro.

Thanks bro.! It's never easy.

slyIsaac:
woulda made sense in Diaries section.... congrats bruh...

You're welcome sir, I felt like sharing it here.

In the weeks that followed administrations of Unizik started rolling out names of successful candidates that had been offered admission to study in the various faculties supported by the institution, those who were picked on merit were admitted, we did'nt hear a single word again, all over the internet aspirants were making buzzes, especially on Facebook, groups and pages relating to the institution were frequently bombarded with questions by candidates who sat for the screening exercise, but I was'nt worried (not much), because I knew though I was'nt among those who made higher scores, I was above average, those who sat for the screening exercise in that year would attest to it, 60 as a score was'nt easy, some made 5 per 100 while some others even made 0.0, I wonder if they actually sat for the test.

So, I sat patiently for my name to appear on the portal but it did'nt, those who were offered admission already were jubilating and had already started pasting how their resumption would look like, trust Nigerians,
"I have been admitted, should I go with garri?"
"Should I live in the school hostel or find accommodation off campus?"
that's the kind of questions you see, I wondered if they should go with there girlfriends instead or find accomodation off air, who cared?

If I had cried then I would have been less of a full grown man is'nt it? It is, so, I did my best not to cry or feel devastated though I might have had the urge to (I wonder who woud'nt if you were in my shoes).

From day to day I toured the institution's website to check my admission status, it seemed the portal had been programmed to tell me "DAVIS, IMIANO, you have not been admitted" but the institution had a way of giving aspirants little hope on their portal by saying "Check back soon, admission process still in progess "Ibupro 2006" " so, we had to wait since the admission was offered in batches and only a batch had been released then, we earnestly hoped on the second and third ones if at all they would be out.

After the release of the so called first batch or merit list, it took long a time to hear from the institution again, some aspirants were already losing hope on the admission while others had moved on to seek for admission into other institutions they applied for, I knew I had been landlocked as I did'nt buy screening form(s) for any other institution I chose and the time had elapsed for it, it was either Unizik or picking another JAMB form which was not a better option. When the school resumed for 2015/2016 academic session all hope were almost already lost as those who gained admission had moved on and most of the school's group of Facebook which were known to be always bombarded with posts (both relevant and irrelevant ones) started being quiet, then, we knew most of our fellows had started being occupied with studies.

Being desperate was rather too soft a phrase to describe my atitude then, I needed to run away from JAMB, I needed to learn something new, I needed to... Just name them, but my name was not yet out, it was even confirmed that some peeps who had the same or even less aggregate score like me were admitted but I was yet to be admitted until we got the wind that Unizik had released her second batch admission list for the session, with the speed of light, note that some aspirants at that point had started falling helplessly to scammers who made it a duty to offer students aspiring to study in the institution 'admissions' of their own for little and huge tokens (till date these bunch of scammers are still on Facebook, I don't know if they are here on Nairaland too), thanks to God I did'nt fall for them, I opened my browser, input the url of the portal for checking admission status, when it opened I hastely input my Reg. Number in the put box provided, it was a critical moment, the moment whose outcome would determine whether I stay or go, staying meant going to Unizik, my first choice and last too, going meant sitting for another JAMB UME which I was'nt ready for, within the short period of time it took the portal to generate my credentials and status after I clicked the "check admission" button I had prayed a thousand time in my heart, if Usain Bolt was a prayer rather than an athlete his speech of accomplishment would'nt have been any where close to mine and finally it opened, "Dear (how did the even paste the alert? I can't remember), IMIANO, you have been offered provisional admission to study Applied Microbiology and Brewing in Unizik"
"Thanks be to God" I said to myself.
My joy new no bound then, I started calling all my peeps whom I came in contact with over the course of seeking admission, to know if they were admitted too, my siblings, my parents, my friends, everybody who cared, I needed to share my happiness with people, in fact, I temporarily forgot that the course I was offered to study was'nt my initial course I chose, did I even care? I was finally going to Unizik after all.

Good evening Nairalanders, I'm glad to be finally here.

My foremost gratitude goes to God Almighty for seeing me through in the first stage of my stay in UNIZIK.

I am Nzeakor Davis Imiano (schoolguy9), I hope to be a Microbiologist some day.

Feel free to add your comments as you read.

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Though, not my initial purshuit, I was admitted into the department of Applied Microbiology and Brewing in the faculty of Biosciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

The heat was on and I had to make do with the course I was offered to study, it was not a bad one though but I would have gone for the best if had the might.

From day one I had seen Unizik as the ideal University for me, I can't specifically say why but it could be because of it's proximity, so, of all the time I registered for the JAMB UME I always put the school as my first choice and after the UME I never bothered to purchase nor sit for post JAMB UME screening exercise in any other school I used to make up for other choices other than Unizik, there's no need purchasing or sitting for post UME screening exercise in a Polytechnic or College of Education when I know I would'nt accept the admission if eventually offered to me, not that Polytechnics or any other institutions are'nt good but, rather , I have made my choice and that's what I sticked to.

The post UME screening in Unizik in that year was'nt fun at all, unlike previous years when the screening was done using paper and pencil type (PPT), the institution moved to all Computer Based Testing (CBT) for the 2015/2016 entrance session and we happened to be the first crop of aspirants to face it, I can say the institution was not fully ready for what they exposed most of us to on the first day of the screening exercise.

We were beaten by rain and we were scorched by the heat of the sun that day, there was enough pushing that day that some candidates who came for the screening exercise resorted to fainting as their saving grace (did I just say saving grace? I don't know what else to term it since those who did not faint were not even happy nor spared from the pushing and squeezing by other aspirants), it got to a point where you will standing alone, not even on any queue or line someone will come from no where and push you, others will be shouting "Forward! Forward! Forward ever!", "Let's go there" as if they knew where they were going to, thanks to God and to the presence of the security personnels provided by the institution, no life was lost that day as those who fainted were taken to the school's medical facility there, but, what baffled me most was that when the medical team took away the victims of the fainting thing, they still brought back the ambulance used in evacuating them and kept it stand-by, perhaps they guessed another person would still faint.

I did'nt faint neither did I incur any injury, I only got my foot wear (shoes) spoilt and some stains on my cloth.

Though, some candidates did, I ended up not sitting for the screening exercise on that day, we were asked to return four days after to sit for the exercise as other subsequent days had been fixed for candidates of other faculties to sit for the exam.


On friday, I wish I still recall the exact date, we returned and sat for the test, the management of the institution handled the situation with more care on that day, fewer of us came unlike the first day, so, they even provided tampurine canopies to shelter us in case it rained on that day.

That was it, we sat for the exercise peacefully and with less hassle, by 8:00pm on that day we had started checking our post UME results on the school's online portal (my.unizik.edu.ng/ bla bla bla), mine did not come out on time as some of us were seeing alerts on the portal as "Invalid Result" when we input our registration numbers, though, some people did not see theirs, after few hours or days some of us saw ours, lo I scored 60 per 100 total, not bad but the competition was huge, I knew I needed God more (after all, who else do you run to then?), so, the waiting and search for admission into Unizik continued.

Cc: Lacalasticlala,
Obinnau, all Nairalanders.