sodom and Gomorrah

When joining university, I had a lot of expectations .I had listened to a million stories from friends who were there before, from teachers who were students there once and even from people who have never been there! But is University life as simple or as sweet as advertised?

I remember my mother, teachers, Uncles and brothers advising me to complete my O’ and A level with a lot of concentration for all the fun was to come when I join the university. I anticipated for that day when I would join campus, finally free like a bird, aiming to fly as far as my wings could carry me.

Little did I know it was just a fantasy. They told me that in university no one forced you to attend classes, no one forced you to sit for exams but they never told me that at the end of it all, it was a must for me to pass exams in order for me to graduate.

I was told in university I could go out to clubs as much as I wanted but they did not tell me that you needed money to do that. My little pocket money could not be enough for as many outings as I would have wished. Everything was left for me to learn, it was an examination of its own.

The day I joined the university I was in for a big surprise. Settling was hard, making friends harder for they preferred someone as rich as them if not more. In A’ level, everything was done for me, my breakfast, lunch and supper were ever on time, and any kind of delay from the authority could provoke a demonstration from us students. All students ate the same type of food, slept on same type of bed and dressed uniformly. To find out who was rich than the other was a mystery.

In university where I expected joy, independence and peace, I got the opposite. I had to prepare my own meals, buy my own unique and modern outfits to fit in the society and to avoid students talking behind my back, not to forget that I had to attend classes without any one reminding me. Really somebody tell me honestly was this what I had bargained for?

In university ‘sugar daddies’ come to search for young, beautiful and desperate young girls. Sugar mummies are not left behind as they search for young boys, all this to spoil them through the use of money. It is like the scramble and partition o Africa, only that, it is the scramble and partition of immorality. Somebody slap me I may be dreaming, but no this is the reality of the campus life. Girls and boys need the money to survive to the campus expectations and sugar daddies and mummies are their to provide the money as they exploit them.

They told me to be careful of such acts but they never told me that university life was so demanding. God, I wish someone comes up and exposes that university life is the root of all evils. Where people do not work but they spend more than their pocket money and those who work spend more than they earn. Parents do not just tell your children to be careful in university but tell them how to be careful in such a demanding institution.

Generally, campus life is all about who has and who does not have, discrimination at its highest peek. Every man for himself and God for us all or what I would call survival for the fittest. No one really cares what life holds for others and no one takes time to educate us before bringing for us this tough examination. We are only left to learn from our failures, live with regrets, wishing somebody who really cares would have warned us, not to forget the constant blames from our family and the fingers raised at us by the society.

Let me take the first step of warning students who are about to join university. To have a decent and comfortable life in the university, one has to look for friends who are genuine and good in all ways, not rich financially but in moral behavior. Go outing rarely, attend classes often, sit for exams and dress to your best and not for their best. Life in campus is not abed of roses, it is full of ups and downs. It is another Sodom and Gomorrah. In order to survive follow my advice for if you look behind, you will turn into a stone.