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I Almost Got Dismissed

second year end of first semester results – Jan 2019

The laziness continued in the second academic year and the moment I knew things had gone out of control was when my name was on the list of students who might be dismissed for poor academic performance. I went to foreign students counselor Mr. Dmitri for advice on what to do. He advised me to apply for an academic leave, which I did and in September 2018 I re-enrolled in the second year. This meant that I would have to graduate a year later because of having to repeat the second year.

I became a serious student again but just for a short while though, that is from September to November 2018. In December when it was snowing everywhere, I went back to my old habit of not wanting to go out. I began feeling lonely because of not chatting with anyone, not even my family. My dad, uncle and close friends tried calling but I just didn’t feel like answering their calls. And so I was in total depression for two month that is December 2018 – January 2019.

“the opposite of connection is addiction”

I ended up having a lot of reset courses. This meant that I had to double my efforts in school because I was kind of studying the workload of two semesters in one. I thought of giving up at one point you know but my friends advised me not to. So I made a plan of how I am going to close all the courses I am owing. With discipline and determination, I managed to write all these exams and finished the semester with a clean slate. If you are in similar situation, then giving up is not an option

“you can still make it, if you mean it”
– Kum Kenneth

By September 2019, another academic year began. This is now year three. I studied normally right up to mid November. Became lazy again and By winter ( December ), I was again under depression. This period lasted till the end of January 2020. Let me mention that throughout this depression season, close friends kept advising and encouraging me to wake up and think about my life and what effect this lazy attitude might have on my future. I tried to listen to them and promised to change but things kept getting bad. There was a point where I even thought of returning to Cameroon without even completing the bachelor degree program. But thank God for friends and family members who advised me to push through to the end. They reminded me that I had come a long way to give up. They also reminded me that giving up is not an option for me nor is it for anybody.

So by February 2020 I decided to change for good and I made up my mind to become the best student again. And as the saying goes, when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, the same was true for me. I found a YouTube video that changed everything for me. The video was titled “The Secrets of Productivity” by Joshua Selman. One of these secrets is “healthy exposure” – meaning access to valuable information. That is to say, you can only become productive in a certain area only when you obtain high quality information that is necessary to produce results in that area. And this changed everything for me academically. So if there was something I really wanted to learn, a programming language for example, I made sure to buy good courses that could help me learn the language better and faster. If there was a subject in school that proved to be difficult, I made sure to do all I could to get access to quality material for that subject even if meant hiring a private tutor.

This principle of Healthy Exposure helped me throughout the semester and I succeeded to finish my third year with better grades than previous academic years and this was just the beginning of my restoration season

Best Student of the Semester

fourth year end of first semester results – Jan 2021

When the fourth year began, I decided to be the first to submit assignments in every course and do it on time as well. my plan was to have 90% of work load done before December(my annual depression season). Just six weeks into the semester, we were sent on quarantine and all lessons were now online. This was kind of good for me cause I had to sit at home all day, and so most of my #StayHomeStaySafe time was devoted to academics.

One last thing, my dad died in October 2020, this was just at the verge of my “annual depression season”. Losing a family member at a very delicate time like this can be catastrophic. It was obvious that if I got depressed a third time, there was no telling what could become of me. Winter came and what happened was the opposite of what we all expected. The loss of my dad instead made me stronger, and more determined to make it in life. After putting in my best effort, I finally got an A grade in every course of the semester, making me the student with the best performance for the semester. I don’t know what your story is but I can tell you for sure that there is hope for you, and so don’t give up