Walked into engineering as a dream, Walked out as the proof. This victory is for family & friends who held us down. Bachelor of Science in Chemical engineering bagged!!!

“The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever…” Psalm 138:8

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This is your last December without a car in Jesus name!

One of the most inspiring things myself and @_Padio have learnt is to invest in people because “people” are our most appreciable asset!

Enjoy!😂

I got lots of opportunities to grow, I learnt lots of skills I have taught over 50 people graphic design meanwhile I learnt it in 2023. When I look back, I smile I don’t regret my choices, and I’m looking forward to a future with numerous opportunities

I couldn’t hold conversations, but now I address hundreds of students without preparations😂 I talk at conferences, webinars, etc I came to university without knowing any engineer and now I speak to CEOs, managers, senior lecturers and top engineers on the regular

I added ALX Data Science to all the busy schedules 😂 If you’ve ever taken a course on ALX you’ll understand how demanding it is I became used to my new way (not attending lectures 😂) and I almost forgot I was in school to get a degree in Chemical Engineering.

I knew I had dropped and needed to reclaim first class status I was not attending lectures but I knew that I am capable 😂 I knew the exact marks I was supposed to get, I did my best But I still learnt a week to the exams 😂

At this point my whole school life changed 😂 After 3rd year I never attended lectures and I used to learn just a week before our paper Worst case a night before the paper 😂

Because of the incredible work we did with the CHEMICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, I was given the opportunity to lead the WEST AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM I skipped lessons for a week every year just to attend conferences

I became more intentional about how I lived on campus, I attended conferences, seminars, webinars, etc. I approached industry professionals, suggested some things to them to seek guidance, etc.

The same company that told me they don’t accept interns, called me after vacation that I am starting work on Monday 😂 I laughed so hard Ei? Is that how the world works?

I got connected to all the alumni who joined the space and that was when I realized this 100 skills x 0 visibility = 0 opportunities You can be the best in whatever you do but if you are not visible, you wouldn’t get any opportunity 👍🏾

So when you are voted into power, your tenure of office begins the next year (3rd year in my case) In view of this, we decided to bridge the gap between industry and academia by introducing "CHEMEDGE” where we brought mostly alumni from our department to have a word with us.

I had to do all that at the expense of my academics😂 I barely attended lectures and I was busy 80% of the time doing other things I had to use all my Saturdays for teaching I could stand from morning (8am to 6pm) without eating just so I can teach all the courses.

We taught these courses, "Python Programming, Front End and Backend Web Development, Graphic Designing” Sometimes the instructors @pkwolffe (Python instructor) gets busy. Meaning I had to learn everything so I can teach when they are not available

The resources were not enough but we managed to do a lot of impactful projects We wanted to do something that everyone or majority would benefit from So we thought of a skill training dubbed "CODETRAIN” to teach skills that are in high demand

We had no idea how to create a bot 😂🤷🏽‍♂️ But with grit we figured out And this was the outcome: https://t.co/05Vj0Ay8wS

What did we do? We created a file sharing bot that can ease the stress of students when it comes to accessing resources We stayed over a month after vacation just building This picture was taken on September 6, 2023 at exactly 10:21pm