Oh No! My Village people followed me to this Junction… || WHAT WOULD I DO NOW!!!

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While in the Exam Hall after seeing my Exam papers, I said in my thoughts: “Oh No! My Village people followed me to this junction, what would I do now?” these exact words were what I said in my mind few minutes after beginning to attempt the exam questions. What exactly do you think happened to me to have made thought of these words?

Yesterday, I wrote an Exam on the course titled “Thermodynamics” MCE 204 as the course code. Before going into the exam hall to write the exam, I had adequately prepared all night before for the exam but it was the first time that I was opening the course to read so I had a lot of topic and calculations to cover in one night.

Some of my friends who had been reading the course before said it is Impossible to cover the whole semester in a night and it would only take someone who is Super genius to do such. I do not take myself such but I know to some extent I am intelligent.

I started reading this course for the first time by 9pm which was the night before the day of the exam. During these hours, I solved so many calculation problems on the course without giving myself a break until 5am which was when I had to take a little rest. By 6am I stood up from bed to realize I went all night studying mostly the calculation without putting most attention on the definitions in the course.

I rushed in the bathroom to take bath then brush my teeth, clean my sandals and dressed up. By the time I was done dressing, it was passed 7am. At that time, I took my book to go over all the theories involved in the course, cramming every definition and laws my eyes came across because I could not afford failing the exam, moreover I had less than 2 hours for the exam to commence.

By 8am, I began to rush out of my apartment for school; holding the book I jotted all the theory I was cramming. I got to my exam hall 8:45am and by that time, people were already entering the exam hall. It was only left a few others and I that were yet to enter the hall. While waiting to enter the hall, my head was feeling swollen due to the cramming I had been doing, my eyes were tiring due to lack of sleep.

Finally, I entered the exam hall and was given a seat. After Few minutes, I was given my question paper and when I glanced through it, I was happy to see that the questions set were the ones I had practiced through the night and not so many theory questions came out compared to the amount I had crammed. A good thing, right?

Suddenly, I felt this relief from my head, releasing all the stuffs that made my head feel swollen. It was a good feeling but not exactly good as I thought. I tried attempting the calculation questions then I realized I had forgotten how I solved the questions the previous night. I looked at all the questions again, I knew them but I could not solve them again, then I said in my mind: “Oh No! My Village people followed me to this junction, what would I do now?”

In Nigeria, there is a stereotype that when someone goes back to his village successful, the village people who sees the person gets jealous and goes after his downfall. That's where the My village people followed me to this junction is coined from.