To gain admission into a school, you need to study hard. And after gaining that admission,you need to work tiredlessly to remain in school if you do not want to be advised to withdraw. The school often tells student who after performing excellently in the exam or exams that have made them to be admitted in the school to withdraw if apparently they are no longer qualified run the race.
Beside academic declination, organized distractions are glamorouly designed to jeopardize the zeal students have built to succeed in the entrance exams. Amongst the agents of distraction is the Freshers’ Night Party.
If you are new to a hostel, how could you comfortably host those who have been there before you? Who are at the peak of passing out of the school environ and become whatever they’ve pursued within four or five years. They gave you a name and you bear it. Shame on you!
‘Freshers’ Night’ and those who dominate the den are mostly experienced hunters on an expedition to prey on carefree baby animals like you.
Oftentimes, what becomes of those freshers who fully find fantasy in freedom from home at the notorious night parties organized for them is unknown. Did anything bad even happen to them? No! I don’t think so! I am not a socialite! Always focus on the fight before sheathing the blade!
How on Earth do you go to a night party in an environ that doesn’t know your footprint well? Or the perimeter of the area that, if there is a cause for alarm, doesn’t know how to welcome you since you are not well familiar on how to navigate it?
Anyway, apart from the immorality you – freshers – enjoy from your night party, never neglect the day that brought you here when you wake up to reality.
Quadri Yahya is an ND2 student of the department of Mass Communication
