This Is US Now - Misguided Stereotypes

First, lets reminisce. Picture a slay-queen amidst the struggles at Jimbaz class 301A. As goblets of sweats cascades down her perfectly powdered foundation, ruining smooth shades of yellow, curved on her not-so-pointed-nose...slight outburst as more efforts to maintain her look with a plastic hand fan proved futile....and then-THE JAM-a stretched hand surviving the struggle cleans off the makeup on one eye brow unveiling a hideous being...and the rest is history...with all the rudiments and battles in this den of a medical school, we just have to admit----This is Us now!!!!  

THEY THINK IT ALL, OVER-SABI These words from nearby strangers made me perch by them to grasp the essence of that statement, until I realized the whole conversation was centered about what selfish-ungrateful-proud beings first year med students are.

YH, profoundly All first med students are victims of one huge collateral damage- a huge terrible occurrence that extends to involve a group of people who are less inclined to the actual cause. Progenies of unfaithful happenings. Could it be frustration from hearing medical students being resolved as most fit in all matters of academic by lecturers? Or reacting to rejection from that same department? However misconstrued our fine humility must have been, not saying we are not up for criticism, people should at least judge us out of stereotypes. As sentiments arise from stereotypes, its usual and socially acknowledged that on an average, successful people tend to look down on their challenged counterparts. However, the case may not always be so in any given society and this same case has been likened to us.

Don't get me wrong, no one is saying med students end us most successful. Hell! That's another stereotype and is definitely not true. Ok! Maybe in the united states where surgeons have the highest paid jobs, but of course, after they must have spent thousands of 'years' and money on tuition. In Nigeria, we make just enough to 'be comfortable' and live a significant life...let's not even consider the fact that the top ten richest men have their assets augmented by their IT related enterprises.

Point is, however difficult it maybe to accept, medicine is the most sought after course in most universities in Nigeria, with each school's carrying capacity being exceeded by thousands every year. As such, we work really hard to get in. so YH...We are smart...like really really smart, like state-of-the-art smart, like 350 jamb score smart, like the la crème de la crème of the school and that's the reality all stakeholders must swallow and agree with.

And as the universe is such that we all have different roles of exercising influence, we all have different course works to be fully devoted to...and as such must equally consecrate ourselves to fulfilling these influences in the nearby future as we've been called to do. And trust me....we can't get there by giving in or being affected my misguided stereotypes.

However this journey plays out, we'll just have to admit---THIS IS US NOW!