If only all the lecturers in my institution could be a little bit like MR. O if not completely. I joined this particular institution three weeks ago and since I became a student here, Mr. O happens to be the only lecturer I’ve been able to connect with on a more student and lecturer level. We didn’t know much about him before his first appearance in our class last two weeks, and long before he appeared in our class that day, news of how talented, accommodating and inspiring he is has been going on everywhere in the person of a senior student in our department…
Honestly, i didn’t think much of him before i met him in person, i had already painted a very different picture of him in my head without meeting him in person, i thought the whole good things I’ve been hearing about him from the mouth of my senior were all fairytales and nothing more. Long before we all saw and heard Mr. O, we all thought he would be like every other lecturers, you know how some lecturers can be now, uptight, overly disciplined, charismatic, and always having this there’s nothing you can do to me vibe”. This was the vibe other lecturers showed us and also carried upon themselves, but then Mr. O was different, he was the best we’ve seen in a long time(one week) hehe…
I remember the very day Mr. O came into our class, that day is a day i will never forget in my entire life, Mr. O came in like a Higher National Diploma student, he came into our somehow noisy class and went straight to the board himself, he picked up the duster and cleaned off the previous course we had before his entrance. We didn’t even notice him until we saw him rubbing off the board himself, if it was any other lecturer they would have drawn so much attention to themselves upon their arrival, especially by calling on one of us to come clean the board…
Mr. O drew little to no attention to himself upon his arrival. His ambiance and the exceptional way he carried himself gave us a hint that he was a lecturer, and immediately we all composed ourselves and brought out the note for his course…
No one knew who the nice and young looking lecturer was until he introduced himself. We haven’t seen him before neither do we know what he looks like, he came in and introduced himself with a different name, we all thought he was a different person until he decided to add his nickname beneath his real name, it was at this point we all knew the most talked about man in the whole of SLT department. Funny enough we knew he was the lecturer for the course we had that time but didn’t know who would be coming to lecture it, not until he introduced himself…
Mr. O has managed to be the only lecturer in the whole of my institution to be able to draw the attention of all students to his lecture. He was able to get our undivided attention because of the way he spoke and addressed us. His manner of approach and the attitude he showed towards the course he wanted to take us was worth every attention we gave to him, he deserved every bit of respect and attention we gave to him, and in return we were resected, he didn’t bully us with the fact that he was a lecturer and we were the students, he addressed us like we were his siblings…
In summary, this is the third or fourth time we have had Mr. O in our class, and if I won’t lie to you all, he has managed to make us love chemistry more, he has managed to break down chemistry to us in bits and pieces…
In conclusion, a big shoutout to Mr. O for treating us with respect and kindness, and in return we have promised to cooperate with him at all times, and that’s because we believe he will help us understand the course better…
THANKS FOR READING…