If wishes...

It’s that period of the semester again. The period where people run helter-skelter looking for past questions, the period we begin to hear funny stories of people almost losing their minds in the reading room, people falling sick due to less sleep and it’s also a good time for the nerds ( if you know what I mean). The truth of the matter is that this ‘period’ is a lifestyle to some people, this period is what some people live for and to those of us who live totally different lives, we don’t envy them, okay we probably envy their grades. A quick question before we go to today’s article, what happens when you become a victim of the crime you are trying to solve?

Hi there. My name is Jidenna, obviously not my real name. I am a student of the Department of Medicine and Surgery.

Sadly, I have been diagnosed of a mental illness –Zerscogirliais, it’s a rare condition. We’ll get to what zerscogirlias is later. Right now, I’m wondering what caused it.

Is it because I read too much? Is it because I taught dull secondary students for four months during the ASUU strike? Or probably it’s a juju something? Forces from the village perhaps? I really don’t know.

These days I do not care much about anything. I don’t care about my grades or the girlfriend I wish to have but I don’t have or my list of female crushes that do not have my time or remember to return the airtime I give them after they say no to me. I think it’s the fact that I’m an MBBS student that scares them away. The most beautiful thing I have seen in days is my Anatomy textbook and I don’t even touch it. No offence to the MBBS girls, but they are probably as miserable as I am and I can’t still close any of them, I thought misery loved company?

If I have a second life, I’d probably choose a course in Faculty of Education or Human Kinetics, I’m not saying they don’t do any work but who won’t enjoy playing volleyball on a Monday morning and getting marks for it. At the very least, I wouldn’t be half mad and with a brain that can hardly focus or assimilate stuffs even after long hours of reading. I used to be a smart kid. Top of the class in primary school, one of the best in secondary school. But the university? It has killed my vibe if any to pursue a degree.

I wish I could multitask like people in my class; be a brainy and have girls at their beck and call, sadly I’m none. I just want to excel at something. I’m on anti-psychotics and anti-depressants currently. I wish I had a fine girlfriend from Arts, probably the Cynthia girl I read about in the last post. If wishes were horses, I would wish away this course (curse), MBBS.

DISCLAIMER: You probably have googled Zeroscorgirlias, didn’t find anything? It’s because it’s not real. We merged ZeroScoreGirl together because he doesn’t score in both academics and with girls. The sender of this piece however has been diagnosed of a REAL mental illness but out of respect, we decided not include the name of the illness and he is truly on anti-depressants. We, at UISTT, can only but wish him well.

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