My first day in the university

If I was to remember my first day at the federal university for a long time. On arrival on campus, I expected to be met by some stale students (as was the practice in my secondary school) but every student around was new like myself. I asked the way to Crawford Hall but no one could tell me. I asked a number of other questions about issues that bothered me, such as where and how to pay the fees, the way to the dining hall and so on, but no help was forthcoming. ‘So in the midst of so many people I am alone, ‘I mused to myself. The prospect was not in the least cheerful and all the elation I had felt at gaining entry into a renewed university at sixteen began to disappear. Then, as if propelled by an unknown benevolent force, I walked a little bit down the corridor in the direction of a notice board at which some ten young men and women were peering. For want of something to do, I decided to stop and look at the notice board. Alas! I had opened on the key to all the riddles that had dribbled me since I set foot on campus that morning. On the board, there was a big campus map in which I was able to locate Crawford Hall and other places of interest, there were details of those offered admission into various courses. How blissful it felt to see the light of knowledge, having been wallowing in the darkness of ignorance. Even then I was not able to escape the thought though I could not be sure how much of the responsibility for the darkness was mine, the fact that something had not been done to draw attention to that apocalypse of a notice board had contributed clearly to my initial predicament. All that notwithstanding, I learnt from the incident an indelible lesson which was to stand me in very good steady throughout my stay in the university; namely, I learnt from that incident an indelible lesson which was to stand me in very  good steady throughout my stay in the university; namely, the importance of reading notice boards and handbills if one is to be well informed about places and events in the university.