Thursday, May 06, 2004

Just in one Week!

This is an early morning, and i have a long day ahead which i really dont feel like beginning. I had a CAT (yeh we still call them CATS in university) last night which could have been worse but i'm being prudent and not really expect 90%...but being in my campus you really dont worry about CAT or exam results for long because the results are released a year later.. I t defeats the purpose of doing the continuous assesment test, right! Yeah, but you get used to it, believe me. Yesterday they released our results for the exams that we did in April 2003 which were inclusive of the CATS done early last year... and inspite of the results coming out one year later.. (more than 1 year) some danda of a lecturer decided to loose our CAT papers. For crying out loud, he should have told us about this maybe 6 months ago, like half a year after we did the quiz, so that at least we would have a llittle vibe to right if we decided to do a replacement quiz.. but no, they decide to disclose their gross negligence one year after, and just 4 days before i begin my 3rd year first semeester exams... hows that for a campus.

You wont believe that we are in third year and there are still results missing for some unit that we did in 1st year. And they will probably seek to address the situation just when we are about to graduate!
Yes, thats Nairobi University for you.. i would bet that u guys dont have to contend with such crap!
(I'm sounding bitter- arent i? Its just a bit of spite for the gross negligence and nonchalance by the members of the system)
But thank God that i actually passed my 2nd Year though the results are provisional pending the doing and marking of a replacement CAT for the unit that had the lost papers. Now i have to go and que outside a small room in our campus, which is called the examination centre, where a corrupt individual (well reknown for switching marks for those who can afford to fully compensate him for any attendant risks) will go through some records and shout out to me my grades. ... D!..C!....B!...D!...C!, Picture that! But i'm generally hoping that i'l have a number of As and Bs.
Enough whining... I'm actually looking for a girlfriend. I was invited for a birthday party last week where my boys came with their girlfriends and everyone i knew was deeply engrossed in conversation (it better have been meaningful) with their "better half" and i had to seep my drink and listen to the music playing while forever reassuring the host that i was fully enjoying myself. After that experience, i must look for a permanent chaperone for such events of a girlfriend.. i'm not sure which i should... i have yet to sit down and think which would cost more financially and/or emotionally. Generally i wouldnt want to attach myself or fetter myself but, the occasion demands. There are a number of graduation parties that i am to attend this weeekend and i am tafutain a chaperone...
Can you imagine, i have an accounts unit.. the call it Accounting For Lawyers... wherein a lecturer comes and tries to squeeze in as much accounts as possible into our heads in 15 weeks. If you ahve done accounts, you know, with no doubt that you can not teach accounts in 15 weeks... or anything close to that definition! Yeh, so the accounts exam is on monday and i must pass it at all costs! if i knew who to bribe, i so would!!! If i dont get a D, and i get a resit paper, teh worst part about it is that the lecturer demands that you do coursework as well instead of simple sitting one resit paper (which according to university rules only gains a D- irrespective of how well you answer the question!)
Hey people, i need to go que for my results... Do ennjoy yourselves and be very glad that i have blogged this long... it might not happen again for like the next 3 weeks!
Stay alive!

Kibet

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