Almost all students in any tertiary institutions in Nigeria knows that majority of our lecturers are sadists, they just derived joy in afflicting pain on students. They careless about how you sponsor yourself to school, they just do everything cruelly.
When I was still in Secondary School, I remembered that my Elder sis always complain about how a particular lecturer in her department was so hard hearted. All students hated the man but there is nothing they can do than just to manage his behaviors, to the extent that the lecturer boldly told all of them that he owns Grade A and B, while the students owns the remaining grades.
Since then, I've been praying earnestly in my mind that I don't want to encounter a terrible lecturer like that once I gained admission into the University but I never knew I will also share in the pain later in the future.
When I was newly admitted into the University, throughout my first and second year in school, we run CBT (computer based test) for both Continuous Assessments (CA) and Examinations so there was no impromptu test whatsoever from any of our lecturers. So the time table for both CA and Exams will be scheduled right from the beginning of the semester and it will be on the school portal, if there will be changes we all will know. Hence, we are all relaxed cause there's ample time to read ahead for the CA and Exams.
Then problem started when we got to third year, our mode of writing test and exams was changed from CBT to Written. Lecturers are now at liberty to fix their test at their convenience, so we were force to be reading ahead of each lecture cause some lecturers can be funny.
There was this wicked Professor that was taking us a course that time, the man doesn't comes to class with note, he lectures off hand this prevented him from knowing where he stopped in his previous lectures, so his class was always full of jargons and he also doesn't keep to time. For instance, if we have his lecture between 10am-12pm, he might be coming majestically by past 11, say his rubbish for like 45mins then leaves the class. I can say all of us doesn't have note because of how he teaches, so we resulted in audio recording him so that we can listen at our leisure so as to get one or two things.
However, the worst happened on a particular day that he was in class. This Prof came very early to class, we are all surprised at his promptness so we thought it going to be a good day not knowing he was about to surprise us. He started the class and in less than 30mins, I heard tear a sheet of paper....what??? Straight away I went blank, I didn't know what to do cause the course isn't what one can cram.
He led us straight to a bigger lecture theater and ask his Master students to arrange us according to our Matric number with plenty spaces in-between us. That day, my soul, spirit and body was disturbed, it was as if I was paralyzed. The test was hotter than fire and no one to copy, we all are blank nothing serious to write than just few things, that man dealt with us seriously. When he send our test scripts, no one score above 10 over 30. I shed tears and was afraid of failing the course. We all later encouraged ourselves to buckle up during the exams.
Eventually, I narrowly scape the course by having Grade D at the end of the semester, when I saw my results I screamed for joy. But up till now, I don't think I can ever forgive that wicked man for the pain he had cause me
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