She locked the WhatsApp group.

"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."

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It was a big day for many of us yesterday as we were waiting patiently and anxiously for the release of our results. In my school, once you hear that results would be released soon, all students would always be in a high mood. Some would be over worried while some would have tension and anxiety written on their faces. There, we have others who don't bother at all because they believe strongly that God never disappoints His children. I am in the last category of students. But yesterday took another turn entirely.

Waiting for the final result which would determine if you would graduate or not is something to get scared of, especially knowing the kind of school you are graduating from. My school is called the “school of frustration” where they frustrate the lives of students from lectures, to assignments, to tests and exams. Then, when results come out, the grades would form an acronym of EFC, DED, EFCC, BED etc.

My school doesn't bother if they fail 100+ students to come back to rewrite the course again. The lecturers are so mean that the only thing aside you from reading hard throughout the night is to pray hard for God's mercy. This is something I take seriously because I believe there is nothing they can do to my scripts once God is involved.

I heard a student saying she saw her lecturer marking scripts at her hairdressing shop and was even dozing on it. Can you imagine that situation? This is the time you see students who read very hard repeating the course even when they are sure of what they wrote, but if you don't have connections, you will come back to rewrite such a course. There is always mistakes in grading students in my school.

So, on Wednesday around 11:30 pm, the assistant to my course representative announced that our results would be out the next day around 12noon. That was when everyone came out to start chatting and waiting since then. I was shocked to see some graduates among us do not know what noon is. One of them even asked if noon is same as midnight. I couldn't stop laughing but at the same time a shame for such a student.

My sister posted a video on her status where the interviewer asked some graduating students the meaning of BSc and Masters. Some were saying Bsc is Business Education 😂😂 Someone said once she finishes her four years course in the University as an undergraduate, she would be collecting Masters's certificate 😅 So funny but a disgrace to them.

Yesterday morning, I knew the results would be posted as the course representative was updating us of going to the department to collect them, convert to PDF and send them to us. Everyone was calm as they kept hoping for the best.

One was even eating then but hearing results would be posted soon, he couldn't eat any longer. Another said we all should fast and break the fast once we have seen the result. I was just smiling at them and was like “It is when you needed something good, one would remember God”.

Someone said I should make sure to get good grades. My reply to him was “where were you when I was writing the exam? Why didn't you encourage me then?” It is when everything had been done and marked, you are saying this. At that period, I was on my phone waiting for the course representative to post them. I wasn't in the mood to engage online because I wanted to see what I got first. Lol

A few minutes later, the course representative locked the group so no one would chat until she is done posting all courses. Immediately, we started seeing results for each PDF course and I was so happy when I saw that 6 out of 8 courses were amazing. The remaining two aren't out yet, so I am waiting for that. Even my project course, I scored A with four unit. I was so happy and prayed for my supervisor for giving me such a mark.

After I finished recording my courses, I praised God for a few minutes because He deserved that praise. He has been helping me right from 200 level with no carryover and for the last part, to Him be praised.

I calmed down after seeing my results and that of my two friends. They also did excellently well and I am so happy the three of us are graduating finally.

Thanks for your time.

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