To students reading this—especially those transferred to Biology or any other course—pursue your passion. True joy comes from doing what you love. However, sometimes what students call “passion” is influenced by friends, parents, or peer pressure. Ensure that what you call passion is not influence by pressure.
Being transferred to another course might be a way of redefining your true passion. For some, it redirects their passion; for others, it births a new one. I have learned that for anything to be interesting, you must first be interested in it.
If you are being forced to study a course you do not love, explain calmly and respectfully why you prefer another course.
If transferred, you may decide to stay or cross over if you meet the requirements. In all you do, understand what you truly want.
We should change our mindset from asking “Where can you work?” to “What can you offer?” As graduates, the focus should be on value creation. You cannot reach a point where you truly have something to offer and not find a place to work.
What changes is perspective. Every organization, company, institute, or business seeks assets, not liabilities.
Be an asset. Invest in yourself, your mind, and knowledge. Gain access to information and never underestimate any course of study, no matter how irrelevant it may seems to you.
What truly matters is how well you transform information into knowledgeable actions.
INTRODUCING MYSELF
My name is Olorunsola Olamide Samuel, a 500-level student of Biology Department, FUTA. I was privileged to observe my industrial training (IT) in a cocoa company, where I worked as a quality control specialist. This has solidified my experience in storage biology.
Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA)
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