[RightInk]A friend of mine challenged me once that the worst college student you’ll ever come across is the one from the college of Veterinary Medicine or 'Chiromo' medicine. On questioning why, he claimed, in his warped mind, that it’s difficult to handle animals for too long and fail two act like one of them (small animal or big animal); or yet it's pretty hard to handle cadavers for too long and fail to be think like one(if at all they do think). To this effect, I decided to take a walk around campus to clarify my friend’s passion of how many types of --good or bad-- students we have and do they have to come from the same said vet pigsty or KNH morgue. Therefore, simulating my big brother Jeff, I say: ‘what a story, what a blog. You cannot find this kind of juicy articles anywhere else. Only right here where we are all college-righting, all the blog, all the time.'
The following are the typical college losers so called students, read with me…
(1)Money-oriented, (2)Otiose, (3)the p.i.m.p., (4)friend-padder, (5)self-promoter, (6) Desperatta, (7)..
1.0 Money-oriented: ( aka the CMB wannabe)
Much as the tribal Kenyan would tell you this is a Kikuyu, on the contrary that is not the case. We all are in hierarchy or continuum of needs and financial security but for the particular money oriented guys everything is put on hold as they prioritize quenching their pockets. In the halls of residence, they’ll convert a room into miniscule ‘supermarket’ selling anything to everything from rotten tomatoes to expired condoms. Money making is the lens through which life is seen and understood creating usual imbalanced judgments.
Sometimes there are apparent noble reasons given for making the money, such as the desire to take care of one’s family or to supplement one’s income. It’s important and very OK. But to focus on money making as a full-time thought with profit as the decision or argument criterion, the initial interest becomes null and void.
These kinds of students, more often than not, usually are the active die-hards in strikes and demonstrations. They have a girlfriend from 'shags' who is usually enthralled by the varsity buildings than her man.
2.0 Book-oriented: (aka the Otiose)
Book oriented students usually become bookworms in every sense of the word, driving themselves to produce at the sacrifice of health, relationship, social life and other important areas of their lives. Their fundamental identity comes from their cramming of the ‘book’—“I know Thermodynamics,” “I beat them in Maths.” are the obvious consolations in their social deficiency.
Because their identity and sense of self-worth are wrapped-up in the book, their security is vulnerable to anything that happens to prevent them from continuing touching their book. These are the kind of people who will stop at nothing but at the brink of suicide if you defeat them even by a single mark. With this kind of remote-mentality, nurtured from their erstwhile high schools, they believe first-class is reading the book inside out and not sharing knowledge nor the book itself in the name that we are in a ‘competitive’ world.
Mostly in this category lie the remote men or the ugly and ugliest young women who see their books as their life. Their actions are limited by academician role models and lecturer perceptions of them.
3.0 Pleasure-oriented:(aka the P.i.m.p.)
We are living in a changing time where instant gratification is available and encouraged. Liquor, clubbing and movies are the key-words for this category. Movies graphically portray what other people have and can do in living the life of ease and “fun.” But while the glitter of pleasure is exalted, the natural result of such life-style to the inner person, productivity, thinking, is seldom accurately seen. Don’t misquote me, innocent pleasure in moderation can provide relaxation for body and mind and can foster learning and other activities.
The unfortunate bit for the pleasure loving student is they become narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of pleasure it provides. They make decisions based on what will give them the most pleasure.
Their order of the day is defined by too much music all day long, too many movies, too much video game playing, too much night-out any day of the week. It beats simple logic to offer yourself too much undisciplined leisure time with no good outcome on the other side of life. College education, to them means the future pleasure after this arduous learning biz.
