Growing up is kind of funny! So the rule dictates that soon as you reach 18 or 19 you ought to head to university to equip yourself with necessary skills and qualifications needed to concur and win this life thing. So you head out into this sacred place full of strangers who will soon become your class mates, house mate’s, friends, friends of friends and those familiar faces you see every day. The first thing you going to do is to adapt, isn’t adapting a skill? You going to be a good kid and meet a few good people who just happen to have their priorities stacked upside down, and because most of those people are your peers you either going to be easily influenced or stand your ground. Isn’t standing your ground a defense mechanism that can be referred to as a skill? Again there is a lesson in being easily influenced because ultimately you are going to learn to stand your ground or be taking for a ride.
Let us look at the lessons a person has to learn at university to survive, (I am not referring to formal learning). First you are responsible for your own safety, you have to manage your own budget, you have to juggle schooling, all the little chores that we normally never think of at home, studying and in some instances having fun, it’s called time management (you know what they say about cruising your varsity years without having fun, it is called going to varsity instead of experiencing varsity). If you are a student you know time management is not easy, it takes a level minded and very organized individual to efficiently use their time. There is constantly SOOOOOO much pressure to opt for the lazy and easy to do stuff.
I believe those years you spend keeping up till late in the library (discipline), studying a subject you don’t even quite understand (persistence) asking a lecturer questions that some students feel are not so smart(confidence, yeah it takes a whole junk of confidence to admit you don’t understand) should count for something. It should be worthy to be mentioned in an interview because the truth is you had to learn those lessons and develop those many skills to make it through. So the next time someone asks you about previous experience point to him or her that nothing can be more challenging than managing your life while you were at varsity mainly because it came with no instructor manuals and tour guides. There is always a consistent urge from social pressures to opt for the easy and silly things but given your drive and level headedness you managed to soldier on and make it this far! Give thyself a high-five I say.
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