Tension have begun to build up amongst students of Rivers State University as first semester examinations will kick off next week. Lecture has ended last week, 6 August, 2021 across all departments as the school calendar suggests. However, some lecturers are yet to cover their outline for the semester. Medical Laboratory science lecturers and Physiology lecturers would not cover as the outline contains a lot of topics for the semester and it wasn't a strange one for the students.
My Friday started at the 00:00 hour of the day. I woke up to prepare for 3 mighty tests as the course representative had informed us. Having written parasitology test the previous day and had a little sleep, i had to battle with sleep. Knowing how sleep gets its way into people, i decided to go for a night study in school because i would definitely lose my battle to sleep if i decide to study at home.
I struggled to win against sleep by walking around the classroom for sometime and making use of my phone. At 00:30am, I began to revise an already summarized endocrinology, histology and reproductive physiology note. I studied until it was 5am, had an hour sleep and left school so i would be prepared for class before an 8am endocrinology test. Our course representative however informed us that the test has been moved to 9am.
At 9am everyone was in the laboratory for the test and the lecturer walked in smiling. " how do you think you can write a test in one hall with this number of students or you think its time for lecture?" The lecturer asked jokingly. " we are comfortable sir " we responded. He smiled again and instructed the invigilators to take some students to the class rooms so that we maintained much distance. He read out the questions and instructed the invigilators to take the scripts after 15 minutes. "How easy can a test be" i said to myself. It was easier than we all thought so many students were donein that 15 minutes.
It was 10am and time for the histology test. Students were all with their notes revising what they had read while some who had not read before were trying to read a little since the lecturer wasn't in class yet. At 10:30am, the course representative instructed Everyone to move back to the physiology laboratory for as the histology lecturer won't be able to come for the test for reasons I cant remember as i was econcerned with the next test we had.
At 12pm, the reproductive physiology lecturer walked in. He was about to teach and then he informed us that the test would be after the lecture. We began to murmur "sir give us the test before the lecture so we dont forget what we have studied". He turned deaf ear to it and made sure we maintained quietness and tranquility. After his lecture, he gave the test. Two questions from what he had just studied and one from the previous studies. It wasn't quite easy as that of the endocrinology. So students were moody as they left the auditorium where we took our test.
We walked down to the class room by 2pm for enterpreneurship class where we were to conduct several experiments depending on the group you fall in. Mine was to make black organic soap. We had already gotten the ingredients which included ghana black soap, cam wood powder, sandalwood powder, lime juice, donpo, coconut oil, vanilla fragrance, preservative, tumeric, honey, 3 days, and sulphur powder. We mixed the ingredients with the ghana black soap and pounded until we got it was ready for use. We took pictures with different products such as liquid soap, bleach, izal, scented candles, etc.
Having ended the practicals, i left by 5pm to my house, had my bath and ate junk before sleeping. I then understood the popular saying THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY as i will have a good sleep after a strenuous day.