Info Zone

This is something off what I normally write about but I need a space to air my feelings of a school I attend. I attend a school that is really pinching on my freedom, interest, comfort and everything that will make me enjoy life as a student at the school. I know I’m not the only one suffering, almost everyone. You should see students faces in class and on campus, everyone is just not happy. I went to this school with the expectation of getting something out of the ordinary but it has turned out to be the contrary.

I got disappointed the very first day when lectures began. When I was filling the admission form, I chose morning school based on my personal schedules so I can combine school,work and other stuff I enjoy doing but to my surprise, I was put on the afternoon school( I wasn’t informed about this, it was just put into my throat to swallow ). I kept mute and tried my best to accept. Now I had to re schedule, which I did quietly( its great to have a boss who understands ).

Now to the school lab policy. We use to enjoy the school labortory very much until recently, a new unfriendly policy was passed and now I don’t enter into the lab as I use to. The new policy is that, any student who want to use the lab has to deposit his or her student’s ID card to the security guy down there before anyone can enter the lab. So when the good samaritan decides to leave the lab, then everyone has to go out if no one is willing to sacrifice his or her ID card. What a wack crazy school. If its security you want to check, why don’t you just ask everyone to enter into the lab with his/her ID period. Depositing ID card here and there is just a plain dumb policy. I almost forgot, you can’t enter the lab with your bag.

Now to the crazy of all policies. Just recently, a dress code was enforce on each and everyone. You’re to wear a by force shirt and a by force flying tie as a way to enforce decency in the way we the students dress. ** Yes I totally agree ** if you want to enforce decency on us but enforcing a dress code on us is just a ridiculous thing to bear. I go to afternoon school, I don’t have a car of my own, I go with regular bus, had to stand in the sun for couple of minutes to get a bus to school and back to the office. Imagine the kind of pain I’m going to go through. Hot sun with shirt and tie OMG. This policy has given the security guys some form of upper hand over we the students. I was recently sacked from the school by a security man because I was in an african wear not shirt and flying tie ( it was the day when the dressing code was enforced ) and I had to miss a mid semester exams. Now I have lost 30% already( if I’m lucky and explain to the lecture and he gives me a chance to write it, then no need to worry other wise … ) of that course.

I fail to understand why a dressing code is being enforce on us. If its decency, just check the way we dress and leave us alone to wear the kind of dress that makes us comfortable and decent looking. Shirt and tie is not the only way to dress decent ah. They must as well sew us a uniform, then I know I wear a uniform to school. Now I have to budget for a new set of clothes. Something I have never planned doing.

As for the school SRC, I wonder the kind of job they do in favour of us. They just sit and accept all sort of dictatorship from the school authorities and just don’t comment on our behalf, they even don’t tell us what is being planned that is going to pinch us. To me they’re dormant SRC I’ve ever come across. I’m waiting for the day they will call for SRC meeting, I’m going to walk in there and air my opinion about them.

My advice to anyone planning to go back to school. If you are choosing a school, its great to check their website for information on courses, admission, fees and anything on how to get into the school don’t get seduce with the kind of information you get on their website and hear on radios, news paper, etc. If you really want to know the internals of the school whether it meets your interests and what you want, find a honest student of that school and throw some queries at the person. They are the right people to tell you the kind of information you need to justify whether this is the right school for you or not. Honestly I have really lost interest in the school because of all these uncomfortable, unfriendly, rigid policies coming out making me perfom badly. I’m trying my best to cope but the interest keeps fading each time a new policy comes out. I’m not against policies that will make the school better but they should consider our interest, comfort and freedom when planning on such policies not just theirs. There are other unfriendly policies which I just don’t want to comment. As for my school I don’t think I’m going to complete with them if situation doesn’t change.