GRADUATE WEY I BE

Well hello there!

How are you this wonderful day that the Lord has made?

Quick question, have you met with a graduate recently?

In case you haven't, let me introduce myself to you; I am Achenyo Favour Salifu, LL.B 😊. 

I'm so sorry I disappeared on you last week but Graduate been need to detox Studentship from her body, and that took a hot minute to do. 

Well, I've been a graduate for an entire week!!! And it's been an amazing experience. 

Welcome to today's gist, I'm going to be talking a bit about how finishing my final semester in University of Jos went. 

So, the last time I'd gisted here, I was a student getting ready to leave school. 

Two days before my final exam, I came back from Church, ate lunch and a few minutes later, I was feverish. Normally now, as person wey no dey like take medicine, I decided to sleep in the hopes that I'd be fine when I woke up. 

When I woke up, I felt a lot worse! Turned out I had fever. I immediately began medications but it weakened me a whole lot. By Monday evening, I'd begun spotting and huge fever blister on my bottom lip that took forever to heal! 

Crazy thing is, I had all but one paper that first week of exams so I was reading and writing the entire exams ill.

However, there's something God did in me during this period; He gave me such rest! It was inexplicable! I didn't even read as much as I'd have wanted but in all, He gave me such peace about it and when I got to each exam, it was really awesome how I had managed to read enough places that I was never stranded, in fact, it was always a question of "which questions can I answer that would save me time?" Because I knew more than the required 4 questions I was supposed to answer. 

Another thing I was recently speaking about that God did to me was the the way He blessed my memory. So typically, I found it hard to remember sections and even cases in exams, I usually would be writing "in a decided case…" up and down (people who studied or are studying law will understand this better), in fact for Company Law, I had made the decision to learn the CAMA in Chapters and not sections because the sections weren't sticking in my head. However, for the first time in my entire stay in University of Jos, I was writing the exams and actually remembering specific sections and names of parties, I was even tying and connecting things that I had no idea could be connected. It felt like God had seen my total reliance on Him and decided to show me His might. After each exam, I came out completely blown away by everything God did for me in the exam hall. 

At the end of the first week of exam, I had only one paper left which was supposed to be the next Friday, and it was Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, my favourite Course in the University; I had plans to read and really scatter the course, break it into pieces so that the lecturer would know that I understood what he taught. 

But Sunday evening, more like Monday morning, at about 1 am, I fell ill again! I couldn't sleep, I couldn't lie down, I couldn't sit, all I could do was roam about my room in pain! I was in so much pain! I kept begging God to take the pain away, or at least postpone it till Friday evening after my exams at which point being ill would not have mattered so much but God being God refused and let me be ill. 

Looking back, I guess it's because God wanted to keep me dependent on Him. And so I was ill and this time I was barely even able to read at all! I hadn't even fully recovered from the first illness when I became ill again so everything just hit me once, God was literally the only thing I had going for me during that final exam. 

I started reading properly for Jurisprudence exam at about 6:30 am on Friday, and the exam was by 8! I just kept trusting God to do something for me. 

I got into the exam hall, looked at all the 7 questions and realized that I could answer all of them! And this was not a situation of I could attempt it, no! It was a situation of "no matter the one wey I decide to answer, I go dey very alright". So, I decided to pick my first question based on love because I been done plan since say any question wey commot from Feminist Jurisprudence, I must answer am. 

After answering Feminist Jurisprudence, I selected the next three questions on the basis of which ones I could answer fast. And that's something else God did for m during my final exams: He gave me speed like never before! Normally, I do not write fast in exams but with this exam, I was writing so fast I was amazed, I even had time to catch my breath while answering questions. 

I remember writing my Jurisprudence exam and saying to myself that that was the best way to leave UniJos, with my favourite course and such ease! 

Then I finished my exam and went to sign out of the exam after submitting. That was the time the term "sign out" took a serious meaning in my head, I remember signing out and thinking "I will never sign out as and undergraduate in this UJ again!" My mind was blown away! I remember how I was smiling so widely, sleep deprived and extremely tired as I was, nothing could take my joy! I kept thinking of how it was when I was in 100 level, and the entire journey to that point and believe me when I say God is extremely good!

So well, this is as much of my graduation gist that I'll be sharing today. I'm still on my graduation high so I'll be sharing bits and pieces of gists in the coming days, don't get tired abeg, it took me 7 years to get this degree, and it was through no fault of mine, so manage me as I continue to disturb you with gist about my graduate status. 

Let me be the first to wish you a blessed sojourn in July. 

From next week, we'll be back to our normal Thursday gists so see you next week!

Love,

Achenyo wey don graduate 😊.