A past graduation ceremony at a local university. [Photo/grad.com]
It was all jubilation and merriment in most campus after a huge number of students successfully divorced the 8-4-4 system they have been painfully married to for 16 years. Pictures were all over of folks throwing up their square academic caps while they, perhaps, cursed some lecturers who gave them hell.
They then joined village mates, who had traveled all the way from the rural area in a hired school bus, for the graduation ceremony! For some, it was a huge relief after completing their 10-6-9 education system!
Well, calm your heels and hold your horses' lads and lasses!Wearing that graduation gown doesn’t automatically make you the epitome of success in life. Some of you all are busy raising your heads in pride talking all intellectual, feeling all educated and schooled.
Now, graduates, or senior members of the public as you are now calling yourself, it’s the high time you walk from the blissful world of fantasy that you all in and come back to the glaring reality that is waiting with malicious intent! You guys are officially on a job searching mission!
All the CATs and assignments you ever did are nothing compared to the huge task ahead, especially those ‘third class graduates’ depriving Kenyans of their peace with blabs of how they have triumphed!
This task will see some of you all trek the dusty roads and muddy paths of this country armed with envelopes and a shoe brush in the pocket, covering long distances that will surpass the most traveled pastoralists.
The ‘comfort’ of not paying rent, water and electricity bills, is officially over.
For those who were too lazy waiting for their parents to pay their hostel bill and give them pocket money, now is time reality will sucker punch you because the niceties are over. Life has just begun!