Why Am I Scared Of Graduating?

     

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It was my first time in school and everyone seemed to be happy; they were all smiling, and chatty. Walking down the concrete pavement with friends, I couldn't just wait to be among them, or at least like one of them. I am a fanatic and lover of clean and well planned drainage system, and the faculty had just that, with lecture theatres having shiny walls, at least from the outside.

This is my story on my first visit to my to-be faculty just after the UTME. What else but external attractions could entice a wannabe student coming to his dream school for the first time?

The story however didn't take so long to change; if you know engineering very well then you will understand my point. I almost packed my bags and went home in my second year of study; I had never been subjected to such stress in my entire life, I was literally gasping for breath, from a tall pile of school work, and countless lengthy classes.

I felt betrayed by the happy students that I saw on my first visit,

“Were those students serious with their studies?”

I wondered, because I couldn't come up with an explanation of how someone can be faced with so much stress and yet find a way to walk so elegantly and chatty; as I saw them walk that day.

I felt like dropping out, if there was a way I could graduate at that moment; I would have jumped at it.

Now fast forward, and here I am, a final year student, (yeah, I managed to survive the stress; I do not know how it happened though), and the whole idea of graduating scares me to my toes.

This was the same me that would have jumped at any window that will lead out of the hell I leaved in back then in my second year.

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So I decided to run a survey, and would love to get your opinion on the matter.

As a student, you can perfectly relate with this. What do you think causes such initial desire to leave school, and then find the idea of graduating a scary thing when it’s finally knocking at your door?

Please share your thoughts in the comment section below.

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