Have you moved from your comfort zone before? one of the most difficult experience I ever had is moving out of my comfort zone, that's the comfort of my parents to start life afresh.
Meanwhile, moving out from my comfort zone which is my home to a new environment, the university is something I'll never forget. After jamb registration, I went through all the processes and luckily for me, I was admitted into the university of Uyo yo, one of the most prestigious institution Akwa Ibom State to study Education and Economics. I was so excited and couldn't stop spreading the news to my friends, relatives and anyone I came across. Everyone was happy for me including my parents, the eagerness to start school was written all over me.
At first, I thought moving into campus after so many advices from my parents and loved one, an apartment was rented outside the school for me to live in because my parents didn't support the idea of living in the hostel, reaching there, I was so lonely at first, no one around me to talk to, my parents and siblings were far from me and this got me worried but later got used to the new life which was a lonely one. I find it hard to make friends in the campus because I believe that too many friends bring too much problems and as a quiet type, I don't like communicating much but at the same time, I felt it was too fast for me to make friends immediately because I barely knew people and their character in the campus so I decided to stay on my own.
I was shocked for the first time in my life as I was addressed as fresher that's a beginner or a year one student in the university, the experience I had as a fresher was indeed a stressful one and funny at the same time which I'll never forget, I always laugh over it anytime I remember. I called crying bitterly simply because I failed to write my matric number on attendant list of a lecturer because I was told that it's one of the assessment 🤣🤣🤣 I can recall wiping for a whole day and refuses to eat, only to be laughed at by some other students who had such a experience before 🙆
Many things makes me cry which whenever I sat down to recall, I'll began to laughed at myself, I'll cry if I miss any lecture or if the lecturer stops me from entering his lecture for being late to his class but one of the most funniest thing ever experienced was asking people to show me Economics Education department and the exact class or building I'll be having lectures, only to be ashamed because of the way they laughed at me before explaining everything to my understanding
It came to a point I nearly gave up because the stress was too much in the sense that I'll wake up as early as 5am to prepare for 7:30am class which I had to stay in the school campus till evening after trekking under a sunny day to classes with uncertain lectures venue which would be changed in as you are getting there to trek again to the new lecture venue but I've to manage because that's the condition of African education
Meanwhile, submitting all necessary documents and files posed another challenge, imagine going to the different offices just to course forms, infact this was senior stress. At a point, I felt like giving up but at the same time kept encouraging myself, sometimes imagine going home to be with my parents especially when I recall those sumptuous food I've been eating compared to what I'm currently eating in the campus cafeteria which is not satisfying at all, and most times, there's no time to even eat the food more than three times a day but here because of stress which made me loose weight gradually.
Time went fast and we started preparing for our first semester exams, I read like never before but was scared at the same time, thinking what the results will look so all I needed was to study harder which I was happy at the end of the first semester. Truly, the university shaped me into an independent person and changed my life positively.