Everyone has had that dream to get admitted to campus, but people don’t understand that being in a Kenyan campus is as complicated as it gets. Many people go to the campus with a mindset that it’s going to be fun through the years, and truth to the word, end up very disappointed. Campus life, on one hand, can be sweet and enjoyable but it may be a hell of life depending on how one takes it and the strategies one adopts.
Students in campuses go through so many struggles and most of their pleas fall onto deaf ears, maybe it explains why suicidal cases among students are on the rise. From missing marks, insecurity, high fees to Sexually Transmitted Degrees that is what campus life is, at least to most who have attended.
On the other hand, people have assumptions that those who attend classes always score A’s & B’s while the non-frequently class attendees get supplementary, and let’s just say things do happen! Anything is possible in a Kenyan University. The society around the campus hasn’t been helpful either. They deem students as rogues, purporting that the students are never serious with their life.
What people don’t understand is that these youths need a helping hand in terms of role models and support both emotionally, financially sometimes even physically. It is on that note, that we highlight a few struggles that they undergo. They include;
Plagiarism
First of all, everyone assumes, education is the core purpose of why you attended the campus anyway, which is true. From the students perspective however, studying for exams sucks. Lecturers missing in classes and peer pressure could be a few factors to be put into blame. In fact in the typical Kenyan campus scenario, reporting back to a typical Kenyan campus during the first two weeks of the semester with intentions of attending lectures just shows you got nothing else to do with your life.
Doing the whole group assignment on your own in ‘the name of degree ni harambee’#UntoldCampusStruggles
— levis okoth (@okoth_levis) July 12, 2019
Sponsors/lifestyle competition
Most girls are into fancy things like shopping, looking trendy, going on crazy vacations and fancy foods. The average girl in a Kenyan campus these days is more endangered because of the desire to fit in with their peers. And this is when everything starts to fall apart. Ony a few of them will be sharp enough to try and find a decent job or source of income.
Girls who went through campus are containers, The only content in them is the certificate they come out with. But Morally, They sleep with men of their fathers age#UntoldCampusStruggles
— Abubakar (@AbubakarJr_) July 12, 2019
This is truer for the fact that almost every student in university life has to discover different means to fulfil their needs of housing, nutrition, entertainment and other activities. Being away from parental supervision makes one feel independent enough to be able to engage in such habits as getting sponsors. Peer pressure and influence also contributes to students being in relationships with lavish men, as it’s the easiest way a lady can source for money.
Unbearable roommates
You don’t get to choose whom to share a room with especially during the first years of joining the campus. You all converge with common purposes but with indifferences from upbringing, beliefs and whatnot. The roommates are the ultimate propellers of peer pressure.
#UntoldCampusStruggles if you know u can relate.wolololooooooooo pic.twitter.com/SmHe8I5s7S
— @Tribelesskenyan🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 (@majorsamutune) July 12, 2019
These people will have you thinking you don’t know what you came to do there. Let’s say from introducing one to drugs, the ladies, the life of partying. If you are not keen, you will end up falling in the trap, and slowly start receiving supplementary exams.