• Fresh students during orientation
Going to campus is an exciting and fun experience, but it also comes with its fair share of strain especially for fresh students. Fresh students can cope with campus life putting some certain things into consideration and knowing fully the main purpose of coming to school. Here are some tips Press Club MAPOLY thinks can help you have a health stay on campus.
WHAT TO DO
1. Don’t miss classes: The main purpose of coming to school is to attend classes, in other to improve your knowledge. There are plans to catch up with, if you don’t feel like going now, you almost certainly won’t feel like going later. Communication is the key in class, ask questions if you don’t understand your lecturer call his/her attention to those issues you think are not explicit. MAPOLY requires you make 70 per cent attendance for you to be eligible to write examinations
2. Always attempt every assignment: If motivation or procrastination become a big problem, it might be worth going to the campus counsellor and explaining what you’re struggling with. It is used to challenge your knowledge about the topic been taught in class, your lecturer wants you to have a good knowledge about the topic of discussion and to broaden your understanding through your own findings.
3. Know the type of friends you keep: It might take days, weeks and some people months to find people that you really, really are compatible with. You might be lonely for a while––some people don’t even start making solid friendships until the second semester! But what matters is that the people who are worth your time will find you eventually.
People who are likely to get on naturally gravitate towards each other, you’ll see.
4. Read after class: knowing fully how to manage stress, students who are determined to achieve success will try as much as possible to read after getting home. It really helped to sharpen your brain and give more understanding about the lecture. Relating with your senior also means boring their brain because they are a year or more older than you in academic, they know what’s right from wrong.
5. Join clubs and associations: Join notable clubs and associations that can be of help in terms of education and enlightenment. Don’t just join club because of its name or their activities but what they impart into your life. Do a critical research of club before joining. One of the association on campus is Press Club MAPOLY.
WHERE TO GO
1. Orientation: This provide ample opportunities to familiarise you with the operational system of your department and the campus. Department officers, Students’ Union and the polytechnic will come to classes to give orientation and inform of subsequent orientation.
2. Library: Familiarise yourself with the school and your department library, by doing so you will see more than enough materials to do read. The polytechnic library is located behind the MAPOLY Micro-finance Bank
3. Sports Complex: The Kola Sorinola Sports Complex offers you a variety of games to participate in. Visiting there and participating in some of the available games will assist in exercising and relaxing the body, fun and serve as an avenue to make friends. I can’t stress this enough. Campus is not just about work. You’ve got a completely new chapter of your life ahead of you and it’s important that you have a little fun and experience life to its fullest. It is far too easy to get bogged down in the monotony of lectures, reading, seminars and assessments and this creates negative associations with work. So enjoy yourself, keep the balance. At the end of the day life is still life and you’ve got to live it.
4. Kudirat Abiola Market: This section of the campus provides a variety of activities needed by the students everyday. From foodstuffs, to computer business services including printing, photocopies, lamination etc.
5. Motion ground: This is a place for students who would like to preserve memories especially the slayers. You will see an array of photographers here to help you do this. It is located opposite the bus-shed.
WHAT TO AVOID
1. Stress of deadlines: The biggest cause of stress at campus tends to be the one thing all students have in common: the work. Although you can’t avoid hectic deadlines and exam timetables but you can reduce the amount of stress they cause by planning ahead. As soon as you find out about your deadlines you should start thinking about when to start working on them. If it helps, you can even tell yourself that your deadline is a week sooner than it is – write this ‘false’ date on your calendar and work to it: that way you should be able to give yourself an extra few days to finish the assignment before you hand it over to your lecturer.
2. Night parties and alcohol: Students are expected to avoid going to night party, clubbing and taking much alcohol.
3. Procrastination: The killer of time as it is widely known. Procrastination robs you of this present time and the time to come. Consistently, do what you have to do now and relax later. That is the sure way to avoid this. It is a surebet.
Written by Kafayat Ikanrende, with additional reports from the internet.
