Passing It On: What We Learned Post University Life, Lessons for You

Quote and Unquote: Experience is the best teacher – Unknown

You hear your parents say it all the time:  We know better. we’ve been your age.

As hard as it is to come to terms with it, we do have to admit that there is some truth to their mantra.

You’ll come to realize it only after you leave that last tutorial or lecture, hand in that last assignment, walk out past those front gates for the last time as a full-time student.

Now that we’re out of uni and working, here are the 3 big things that we’ve learned and want to pass on to you so mistakes are not repeated:

i. FOR REAL YO! : Studying is way better than working! So PLEASE enjoy your studying life to the fullest!

Every student, including us, dreads it when they hear parents repeat this. How can that be? How can it be possible that being a student is way more fun than working?

We’re making moolah in the working world, of course it’s more fun. Err, right? Studying just cannot be more fun than being employed! It’s just not possible right?

We’ll were here to tell you from our experience now that we’re working, our and your parents were right all this while!

It’s not that we’re ungrateful that we have our jobs now because we are so thankful that we’re employed. But 10 out of 10 times, we wouldn’t second-guess going back to our days as university students!

ii. University life is more than just exams and assignments. Really.

Although this has been widely talked about, we feel that it hasn’t been taken seriously by many. Exams are a very important part of your studying life but it’s definitely not everything.

There’s much more to university life than just dope exam results. You leave with, among others an experience of struggle, perseverance and commitment. The attitude and expanded perspective and receptiveness of the things around you.

Your view on the world is broadened by the experiences you go through in university.

And that’s why you should always look for opportunities in uni to test yourself in those situations, so you can leave a stronger person, poised and ready to take on the world.

iii.There really is a reason why your lecturers put you through those darned assignments!

We really regret thinking ill of our tutors and lecturers all those times when we were struggling with our reports and assignments. We were just like you, thinking that those assignments were merely “weapons” used by modern day educators to make the lives of youths and students woeful and miserable, made worse by the “impossible” due dates.

How wrong we were! We wish we tried harder with those assignments. Oh how that could’ve helped us manage our worklives better!

Deadlines here in the working world are many times tighter than those given to uni students. Those painful assignments should be taken seriously because they are test runs to what you will face in the working world.

Till next time readers, have a great week!