Recently, I have been going on through my head on how things really never change in some people. Some people just decide that change is not their kind of thing and you stop expecting anything different from them.
It goes without saying that that is bound to happen every once in a while. My journey through Makerere University has been a patchy one, I am set to graduate early next year, but with Makerere one's fears go even beyond the walls of the university.Now my new fear is in how long it will take to get my hard earned transcript. Will still be the ever longer process of "come back next week", "we are working on continuing students", "the officiating person is not here" Whatever it will be, I think the Ivory tower can do better than that.... if they can change, anyway.
My friend, I can't remember which one in particular, told me of his journey as a university student at a prestigious campus abroad.He did his bachelors and later had his masters still at that same university. It goes without saying that the dynamics of education are such that if a student graduates then they are legally looking for work given our Third world experience...Uganda in particular. But he had a job already and that was a bonus or a better standing for him. He speaks rather fondly of the aftermath of his studies in comparison to our very own Makerere University...one that has been ranked from time to time as the best University in Uganda.
He received his transcript just two weeks after his exams had been marked and delivered to the right office, something he is curious to indulge in.But what stood out was the ability for him to receive his transcript just in time, even before the graduation ceremony happened, and he did not have to run around with the officiating personnel to get it delivered to him.He rather had the officiating personnel call him to pick his already verified transcript.(I am still fascinated by how clean the process is and it is not even tiresome and frustrating )
Okay, to eyes that have not had such an an experience, my example from the overseas sounds far fetched.
My cousin recently graduated from UCU (Uganda Christian University) in Mukono and had not more than two months of waiting for her exams to be marked and by graduation which was in the same year she finished school. But even still,she had her transcript provided on the day of graduation,verified and stamped and guess what? the testimonial was never even thought of.She graduated with honors and got her transcript provided with no hassle.
Am greatly frustrated when I hear it mentioned that it is Makerere University's 65th graduation ceremony. And still after these so many years, new universities have a better way of sending off their scholars with no hassle than Makerere can deliver. I have six months of waiting around with a testimonial before I can actually get any meaningful work, just because I have to wait for a rather slow system to adjust to the ever changing world.
I have to go through many hours of time wasted, closed doors during working hours, arrogant workers, dead beat days when the secretary is the boss and cannot deliver still, maybe some more registrations to make, rainy days, sunny days before I get my transcript. Is it going to ever change? Maybe in my wildest dreams. Somethings never change, this is one of those things.
Welcome to the Ivory Tower!!!
It goes without saying that that is bound to happen every once in a while. My journey through Makerere University has been a patchy one, I am set to graduate early next year, but with Makerere one's fears go even beyond the walls of the university.Now my new fear is in how long it will take to get my hard earned transcript. Will still be the ever longer process of "come back next week", "we are working on continuing students", "the officiating person is not here" Whatever it will be, I think the Ivory tower can do better than that.... if they can change, anyway.
My friend, I can't remember which one in particular, told me of his journey as a university student at a prestigious campus abroad.He did his bachelors and later had his masters still at that same university. It goes without saying that the dynamics of education are such that if a student graduates then they are legally looking for work given our Third world experience...Uganda in particular. But he had a job already and that was a bonus or a better standing for him. He speaks rather fondly of the aftermath of his studies in comparison to our very own Makerere University...one that has been ranked from time to time as the best University in Uganda.
He received his transcript just two weeks after his exams had been marked and delivered to the right office, something he is curious to indulge in.But what stood out was the ability for him to receive his transcript just in time, even before the graduation ceremony happened, and he did not have to run around with the officiating personnel to get it delivered to him.He rather had the officiating personnel call him to pick his already verified transcript.(I am still fascinated by how clean the process is and it is not even tiresome and frustrating )
Okay, to eyes that have not had such an an experience, my example from the overseas sounds far fetched.
My cousin recently graduated from UCU (Uganda Christian University) in Mukono and had not more than two months of waiting for her exams to be marked and by graduation which was in the same year she finished school. But even still,she had her transcript provided on the day of graduation,verified and stamped and guess what? the testimonial was never even thought of.She graduated with honors and got her transcript provided with no hassle.
Am greatly frustrated when I hear it mentioned that it is Makerere University's 65th graduation ceremony. And still after these so many years, new universities have a better way of sending off their scholars with no hassle than Makerere can deliver. I have six months of waiting around with a testimonial before I can actually get any meaningful work, just because I have to wait for a rather slow system to adjust to the ever changing world.
I have to go through many hours of time wasted, closed doors during working hours, arrogant workers, dead beat days when the secretary is the boss and cannot deliver still, maybe some more registrations to make, rainy days, sunny days before I get my transcript. Is it going to ever change? Maybe in my wildest dreams. Somethings never change, this is one of those things.
Welcome to the Ivory Tower!!!
