Hello everyone here my name is giboss and this is my first post in hive-reachout community, please welcome me onboard I am one of your newbies.
Each step is just a journey, no matter how hard the stone I step on and how narrow the road is. I am still thankful to God who has thus brought me this far.
I won't say for sure that the journey has been easy for me or more difficult that solutions to solving them has not been always coming my way miraculously.
Let me start with my academic journey, it has not been easy as I had thought at first it would. Each moving from one lecture to another and meeting with other life expenses, is really tough.
Such that, it takes courage to continue, I feel at some point quitting. Not because I am tired, but because the workload is so much unbearable at some point.
When you finish with an intensive class work, burning the night candles with much effort only to get the grades of a lecture and not a true major of the efforts putted in.
One of those moments is this semester, I have worked throughout my naive, to make sure I don't go below 4.2 each semester, but this semester has shown me all the reasons I should just quiet.
Because, I feel pained that my efforts are being undermined by the kind of views and ways students script are being graded in my institution.
Finding myself for the first time with the total CGPA of 3.5 this semester is too bad. I feel disappointed, and at the same time I feel I have disappointed the reason I choose to be a student in the first place.
Reading and writing, as we all know, when we elaborate on intentional reading in that matter, I am not getting the gratification of my efforts.
I study harder, to get better grades and even organize classes for my colleagues, even when I happen to turtle many of them, sometimes I decide to write my ideas and write the little I share with my friends.
Just to be certain, it is not my ideas that fail me but the same idea I put in a paper just like every other person in the hall turns my a different a story.
Each quarter I asked myself, it is not time I give up. Being in 4.5 five in public Universities, one who has been there would tell the hard work it takes to achieve this before sixth semester.
Then image how frustrating it is for one lecture or course to bring your major's of expectations to the ground.
Now this is my ninth semester, I am not sure of achieving my dream grades yet. I spoke with my parents during my sixth semester that I was going to give up.
But this semester, I am so excited that I have been able to move with some aggregate points, even though it is not enough.
I still thank God, when I look at other students complaining, not because they are not studying, but I feel I just escaped this semester with grace of God.
Which I am not thanking for granted. After all, some are dropping from 4.5 to 3.97. Most are even going below this.
I thank God, for he has not totally forsaken me, in as much as He is not too disappointing me this semester.
I hope that by the time I add my project and seminary with other works, I should finally round up this eighth semester with something presentable and balance the grade up again.
So I am thankful to God that He has also shown me grace, this semester adding smile to my educational grades this semester.