As we all know it’s a common thing in Nigerian Universities –especially
Public Universities- that students often offend Lecturers. While the
lecturers sometimes are to be blamed, the silly behaviors some students
exhibit cannot be exonerated as well. This article was concocted because
the last time I checked, 99% of the time a lecturer has deemed that he
has been offended, students bears the loss.
So
Campus Dailies give to you, 4 reasons you shouldn’t infuriate your lecturer.
1) High Probability of Failing the Lecturer’s courseThis,
of course, needs little explanation. You offend a lecturer, you
automatically become his/her enemy. He detests you and whatever can be
associated to you; yourself as a person, your tests, assignments ,exams
and even your colleagues. Yes! Your colleagues. So in case you’re
reading this and you have that friend that has no other hobby than
stepping on lecturers’ feet, you surely don’t need a priest to tell you
what to do.
2) High probability of Failing the Lecturer’s colleagues coursesIt
is worthy of note that the support and love lecturers in the same
department have and show themselves is out of this world. I equate it to
the love a male toddler shows his toys and the love a female toddler
has for her dolls. I remember vividly when a course mate offended Dr. X ,
only for Mr. Y to come to class the next day and say: “Dr. X has told
me that you guys lack morals and home training. ‘We’ know what to do to
you”. Did you notice the we in quotation? That explains it all.
3) Degraded Focus / DistractionI’m
very positive no one here would love to always be th topic of negative
discussion by a lecturer; especially in class. He calls you to answer
questions on topics that are in the 9th week on the scheme, when you’re
just in the 4 weeks into resumption. He calls you names, publicly throws
insults at you, awards you scores way below what you merit both in
tests and assignments, the list goes on and on and on. Every right
thinking student would agree that the aforementioned are step-brothers
to Distraction.
4)
Poor gradesYou’re in school to
study and obtain good grades, right? To make mama proud huh? Or is it
to get that ‘Dream Job’? But how on earth is that possible when you’ve
spent considerably large portion of the semester trying to get back on
the good side of a lecturer? Prevention they say, is way better than
cure!
There you have it people. We hope those who make a fun of offending lecturers would turn a new leaf.
