By Rachael Akinyi Ochieng’
Everyone dreams of joining the best universities when in high school, teachers keep on encouraging students to work hard and smart during their last lap just to join the best university and enroll in the best courses. Every single student has a dream career and a dream college.
But then what really happens when we get there? This is one question that has different and many answers but then the answers don’t really satisfy enough. Campus life is one life that really needs someone to think about where he or she is coming from and why they are there. One thing that i have come to realize is that there is really a lot of peer pressure in campus more than in any other place, but then again we all have to look for solutions to this so called peer pressure.
Drugs, prostitution, smuggling, and even robbery are among the many things that most students engage in. What i fail to understand is how we can easily be influenced into engaging in such behaviors. The rate at which drugs is being used in the University is very high not to speak of prostitution. Many female students want to live a comfortable life knowing very well that their background doesn’t allow it. They therefore opt to settle for a solution by selling their bodies to old men or even lecturers just to live a life that they know very well they should be working hard to get.
We all have different dream careers but then it seems that once most of us get to the university it’s like we forget what really took us there. Life in Campus is not easy we all understand that but then again which is the right way to handle difficult situations when they appear? How best we handle our issues is what will always determine our after life out here and how we will always come up with a solution when an issue emerges will determine how we solve problems amongst ourselves.
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