Olayemi

I have a joke, and it is funny in my head 😄

Another customer requested for the fried version. 🤭🤭

o si wa lara 🔨

reply w the most gorgeous poem youve ever read

What are you building?

29. A philosophy you live by.

Writing Prompt: If I let you go.

This also reminds me of an incident that happened in 2003 or 2004 when we went for FGN scholarship test in Osogbo from our OAU campus. There was this lady in my class. Spoke very good English. Came from Lagos. Heard she attended a very top school in Lagos. And there was me, who came from Offa, attended a public school, and struggled with oral English. We happened to share seat in this Osogbo test. While filling the pre scholarship test form, there was a place that required us to put number of siblings. I wrote “5”. Then she looked sideway, saw what I wrote and, admittedly good-intentioned, tried to correct me, “Why did you put 5 as number of siblings? Are you saying you have 5 children?” Given what I knew of this classmate’s background and her oral English, I never believed she would not know the meaning of sibling. Poor me. I began to doubt myself. I then canceled “5” and wrote “0”. We got back to campus and I checked dictionary. Fiam! I was correct about the meaning of siblings, my ajebo classmate was wrong. But lack of confidence made me go with her. Anyway, both of us passed the test and got the scholarship🤣 But that incident made me realize that those of us that schooled in ilu oke schools may not be as bad in English as I had thought. We only needed more confidence. That event boosted my confidence in uni.

One of the things my mentor told me when I started graduate school was, “Learn how to ask for help.” It’s a mantra I’ve carried with me ever since. He insisted—if I ever felt unsure about anything, I should send an email or request a meeting to get clarity. It took me a few weeks after starting my program to put this into practice. But once I did, there was no going back. My classmates took a tough course in our first year. Every day, they came to school looking stressed. They felt like they never quite knew what the lecturer wanted, so getting an A seemed almost impossible. At the end of the semester, I asked one of them about her grade, and to my surprise, she got an A. When I asked what she did differently, her answer was simple: she always asked for help. She would call the lecturer, ask for feedback, get step-by-step direction, and even chit-chat about mundane things. She said this has always worked for her—never being too shy to ask for help. And she pointed out that most people don’t. In graduate school, one of the biggest mistakes you can make is assuming you can do it all on your own. A 30-minute call with your lecturer can give you so much direction. They actually love hearing from you. Think about this beyond school. Often, we don’t ask for help because we fear rejection. But what if they said yes? And even if they didn’t, no one has ever died from hearing “no.” Learn to ask for help.

Microbiologist to Microbiologist:

Lets start the new month by giving $200 usdt to 2 people. Drop ERC20 address will pick randomly. Happy new month!!

Lets start the new month by giving $200 usdt to 2 people. Drop ERC20 address will pick randomly. Happy new month!!