Needless to say, students have taken a giant decision towards aiming high, choosing education as a bedrock for success. Some students today have risen to appreciate and embrace the benefits and importance of education even with the fact that they or their sponsors are not financially bouyant enough to cater for their education.
However, they, thereby, give room for education without being discouraged by the costs, requirements and stress, instead they decide to endure and move out of their comfort zone with the sole aim of achieving success and greatness at the end.
In order to achieve their goal,they engage in campus entrepreneurship, they sell goods, render services or even work as a part-time staff outside school just to make ends meet and also pay some bills like school fees, handouts and textbooks, practical materials and so on to aid the smooth running of their academics.
They allow the penny they make and probably the love of the business take more of their time if not most of it, making them forget they actually engaged in the business to aid the smooth running of their academics and that they have a very long way to go beyond: "Get your wears at very affordable. You will get what you order and so on.
That said, who says you cannot make money from your field of study as a student, get paid well, get innovations and insight about your field? For example, as a student journalist, there are so many online organisations you can write for at the comfort of your home that will pay you well. As a computer science student, there are online platforms you could host yourself in and clients will come seeking your service to have you develop softwares for them and pay you handsomely. Of course you can, all you need do is research and develop your quest for knowledge, and in due time, you will do well and become an ambassador in your field.
Moreso, I am not saying engaging in entrepreneurship as a student is a criminal offense, neither do I mean making money from your field of study as a student is the best idea to adopt, instead my point is: we need to dedicate more time for our studies as students pending the time we would be off campus so that we would not eventually end up with no difference between the educated and the non-educated, so as not to leave campus with the ambitions we came in with unaccomplished.
Conclusively, I implore students to wake up and take academics with all seriousness so as to achieve their goals, build good records, become role models to younger ones while shaping their future for the better.
It is tempting to get carried away with the razzmatazz in school and the lure of short-term income. In all, let’s not forget where we are coming from and work towards achieving success academically.
Misturah Olatunji is an ND2 student of the department of Mass Communication
