Chapter 1: PRESSURE

when I graduated from my secondary school I had lots of expectations placed on me by my parents and family . i was expected to get admission into a federal university and study medicine and to be able to get this score is a great achievement in this country as you will have to get 360 all over 400 in Jamb and one should also be able to get over 200 in the University entrance exams coupled with the amount of money needed for the exams, registration, and transportation is quite high and not all families can afford it and for a poor family like mine all their expectations is that you will take all the exams once and for all as a poor family cannot pay for a state university because their school fees are In hundreds of thousands so basically a poor family with many mouths to feed cannot afford such amount of money yearly and polytechnics are basically useless as no employer will hire a polytechnic graduate when there is a federal university graduate also applying for the same job. Talking about college of education where you train to bee teacher it is the lowest of the low because in Nigeria teaching is the job with lowest reputation as gone are the pre colonial era where teaching was a noble profession with many rewards both monetary wise and in respect. Now there is a popular saying that goes like this "IN AFRICA A TECHER'S REWARD IS IN HEAVEN" so no one really wants to waste his or her time and money at any college of education as you are not sure that you will get a government appointment so looking at these factors my parents and relatives are like John make sure you get admission into a federal university so that you will become a medical doctor and make lots of money so that you can take care of us and become a respected person in the community and everybody will respect our family and the pressure is too much as I have written the exam twice and now this is the third time and I got a sponsor who sent me to a state University to study animal science and fishery management at ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY NIGERIA and this is a compilation of my life in the University as I begin another phase in my life while trying to rewrite Jamb to get the course medicine.