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This is what schooling in a 21st century Nigerian university actually looks like.
Broken in some places, alive in others.
A degree at the end of it either way.
The question is what you decide to do with the space in between.
And where the university falls short, students are showing up for each other.
Clubs, communities, initiatives, all built by students filling gaps the system left open.
That's not a small thing.
Nobody is too sharp to ask for help.
In Nigerian universities especially, we wear struggle like a badge of honour. It is not.
Your coursemates, your seniors, your lecturers are all resources.
Ask the question. Send the message. Knock on the door.
5. Your network is a course nobody will register you for.
Mentors, senior colleagues, professionals in your field.
Build relationships outside your faculty.
In Nigeria, who knows you matters just as much as what you know.
The graduates winning are not just the ones with the best CGPA.
They are the ones who noticed the gap between what school taught them and what the world needed, and decided to fill it themselves.
That decision is available to you too.
The question is when you will make it.
The graduates winning right now are not abandoning their degrees.
They are supplementing them.
Combining the credibility of their education with skills the market actually needs.
That is the move universities should be teaching but aren't.