Today I turn 22 years of age and exactly a year old ever since I walked out of my Bachelors of Business Administration lecture room and vowed never to return until I made my heart settled with what I love and truly believe in. My story of quitting campus may not be a unique one but only feeling of missing where to be. It should not inspire you to quit too but to work hard, utilise your chance and make it to where you believe you out to be, because it’s possible.
Life as a Campus Dropout in the Uganda of today is not one you will comfortably ease through. The tantrums thrown at you, the judgments you will have to go through. Everyone regardless of how they are performing back at University with all kinds of grades will try and advise on how you made a wrong decision without even hearing you out.
I can’t sit the whole world down and address them on a presidium on why I quit campus but on one or two occasions, I give those I feel I owe an explanation one.
My passion for media was one that grew by the day and even after I applied for Mass Communication thrice at Makerere University I never got the chance to see an admission of Mass Communication with my name embroidered on it. All I saw was Business Administration which was not a friend of mine considering Mathematics and Economics were my High School nemesis.
My dad at that moment was the kind of person who couldn’t listen to my heart’s desires, I took the chill pill and made MUBS my profound home to kick start a business passion I had never bared at heart. For two semesters and a half, I struggled with a course I very well knew my body, heart soul and future didn’t lie in but nonetheless had to please a scribe or two with a paper. The more time I had doing nothing after lectures, I devoted it to doing journalism at the grassroots, I wrote articles, I landed a gig at a local television and also grew my media presence more. This however didn’t go well with my dad, he didn’t lobe the characteristics that came along with me being in the media.
Time flew, my passion grew more and I was in a path of what I loved and believed in, last year this time, I decided to make the bold move and said farewell to university for my heart was never there, with this led me to leave home too for my decision was not welcome then. I then set off to start a life, a journey that will put my abilities to great use.
I can’t say I’ve achieved a lot but the road is clear and with my determination I know someday the people that didn’t really believe in my decision to quit campus would someday look up to me and nod in amazement. Education is key in life but it’s just not everyone’s key!
