Greetings everyone.
Reminiscing about the early days when I was in school and had 'Dr.' attached to my name, written on my desk, simply because I wanted to become a doctor. It's all laughter now because, to be very truthful, I never saw myself, as I got older, becoming a doctor. I guess what led me to attach the 'Dr.' title to my name was the competitiveness in class, where everyone wanted to be a doctor.
The dream I truly had was in engineering, and that came to life when I became of age, say 15 years or so. That was because of how my dad used to raise my shoulders whenever he saw me repairing electronics such as VCDs, radio sets, and even our TV. Yes, I opened our TV countless times to find a way to repair it when it was faulty—but that only happened in secret because the TV was the second biggest electronic device we had then, after the refrigerator. As for the refrigerator, I never got close to repairing it because, even when it was working, it used to shock us sometimes. How much more if I attempted to repair and power it afterwards? That would mean I wanted the floor of the house to start shocking too. Lol.
So back to the story—that's how my dad praised me for going into electrical engineering, because according to him, since I loved it and had the passion for it, I would excel in the field.
With that in mind, I joined the science class when we got to the stage in secondary school where we needed to select the class that aligned with our ambitions. Naturally, I loved science, so I joined the science class. I enjoyed physics a lot because we had the best teacher, and that also strengthened my resolve to keep pursuing electrical engineering. But something happened along the way.
Towards the end of our secondary school stage, I became the best student in biology. How did it happen? I don’t know—I just wrote the exams and did well, and the biology teacher announced me as the top biology student in the class. That honour got into my head, and I started thinking about going into medicine since I was very good in biology. But when I looked at my very weak background in chemistry, no one told me to stay in my lane.
Mehn, chemistry was so difficult for us back then because we didn’t have a good and stable teacher. Even till now, I still don’t know how to balance chemical equations, which is the basic foundation of chemistry.
Guess how it ended?
After graduating from secondary school, I did JAMB and applied for electrical engineering as my first choice in the university, but I scored 192, while the cut-off mark to get admission into the university was 200. I didn’t want to waste time writing another JAMB or lose one full year at home. So, I just went for the polytechnic option with civil engineering. After all, they’re all engineering—and that was it.
Thanks for reading.
This is my entry to #smp-w18
