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MTL Entrance  Moi University

How do you segment your calendar?

Actually, academics are the only path that transits a student to campus. For other people making the campus community, it incorporates business, work and “easy to riches affairs”-theft. Different categories of students here come in mind; the undergraduate-who are the monopoly, and the post graduate encompassing masters and PhD students.

Comrades time  as the semester proceeds is sectioned unconsciously  among themselves following a certain  common pattern .For most actually, the first  initial three week of the semester cater for arrival settling and nursing hang -over of the holiday in case the semester came after a vacation.

 It is a crucial time to run for “the dear” green forms after taking thoughtfully, a strenuous moment trying to secure a room using the on line hostel booking system. This of course encompassed websites flooding with many people trying to log in at once making it “hang” followed with its implications...

Thereafter one transfers his/her belongings to their rooms sure enough, after getting a place to lay your head after the busy days of the semester commence. Hereafter, one thinks of checking for updates preferably timetables on respective school notice boards.

For the serious academicians classes are attended from the second week. The 3rd and 4^th week for easy and slow goers who could want to take their time in campus- “a free society” for them

Assignment and CATS start on the 4^th week. Students start dripping into MTL, computer labs and    wi-fi hotspots to research. Meanwhile, there are these schemers intelligent enough not to strain .They are ’smart’ in using their brains. These group visit computer labs looking for saved files for assignments done by others to copy, even worse delete afterwards. Woe unto the early risers. Genuine schemers sweet talk others for them to be allowed to duplicate.

open air market at mabs on saturday

Handing in of research assignments and presentations are ongoing from week 5 for others to some days just before we collect exam cards to sit for end of semester exams. Apparently the library is flooded rather filled to capacity one month prior to exams. Ironically, the library is desperate for students when semester commences and here students fill the doorway before 8am-opening hour-  to  secure a space conducive to study.

Apparently , the academic way is very busy. Bags carrying books and hand outs are the greatest treasure at this time. The destinations here are limited; library (key), rooms and lecture halls. Hoofers, screens and movies in laptops go hibernating. Discussion groups are crucial. Academic based friendships grow best for serious guys. Most relationships frail here because time for dilly- dallies affairs for partners have been robbed by exam fever-no time to cook for “husbands” and walk over.

Moreover many have run Bankrupt .ATM cards are put far and maybe even passwords forgotten; accounts are reading below Sh 200