Am I A Worker Or A Student?

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Today is the first day of the month of May and it’s the International Worker’s Day which automatically makes it a public holiday. Since just about every employee is a worker, they deserve to get this day off and use it to relax in preparation for Thursday. Since the beginning of the year, it seems we’ve been hit with multiple holidays so far, and personally I’m up for every single one of them.

Who doesn’t like a good holiday? I’m always game with anything that allows me not to step out into the madness that constitutes of daily life in the streets. That’s just how things have gotten, but it’s all good. I have the whole of today to myself.

But then, it’s not just about the holiday. On Monday, I mentioned in passing about how we’ve already started our exams here in my school. It started on Monday and so far, we’ve been going hard at it. Thankfully, every paper we’ve written so far has been ending on a good note, so it’s great for me and I Iook forward to how the rest of the courses will turn out for me.

Personally, I didn’t believe that the exam was going to start as scheduled. Last year, I told you guys about how our exams were postponed over and over again just to get students to pay up their school fees, I thought that was going to be the case this time around. Thankfully, I still prepare adequately just in case, or I would have been in a pickle.

But then, as luck would have it, the rector has changed since then and no more postponing of exams. At least not this semester. It began on the very day they said it would and it would end when it’s scheduled to as well. That’s a good one. I’m happy about this because it means that the timetable I set for myself the year is still viable.

So, with exams ongoing, you would think all I have to do is focus on my books, right? No. I still have a billion things to do, and they’re all with regards to school. I’m still preparing for my seminar and currently costs me an arm and a leg, all of you who have done school projects before know the cost implications. And this is just the seminar, the project proper will be by next semester.

And also, I have a gazillion practical reports to run fill out, they’re all based on practical that I have done. I have the notes and everything, I made them during the practical sessions. All that is left now is to fill a report and make it comprehensive enough so that anyone who reads it will have an idea what really went on in that lab. Then, there are assignments as well, every one of them asking us to submit before the deadline or there will be hell to pay.

At this point, it seems that as a student I’m working even harder than the workers themselves. Hell, this holiday is really for me! Because part of what I’ll focus on is getting all those reports and assignments done so that I’ll be able to return to my books.

No pressure. This is what I signed up for when I chose to come back. It only gets tougher when you’re almost at the finish line. And the fact that I’m almost done is what keeps giving me impetus and the drive to keep pushing and to keep fighting. And that, my friends, is what I’ll keep doing. Until the very end.

Cheers to a successful exam.

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_{Thank you for reading. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below, I would love to know what you’re thinking. Till we meet in the next post.}

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