Being a Comrade

 

credit; TUM website 

Surviving as a comrade at the Technical University of Mombasa is a bit of a personal achievement. Having to survive with timetables, exams, and personal issues could make one quit school. Just meeting every schedule in the university clearly calls for celebration; be it assignments, getting to classes just not in time but also attending them, not getting supplementary, it's no joke reaching them together as one. But so long as you're in the university, you have no other option.

Personally being a comrade is just challenging; you got to make a lot of sacrifices to make something sensible. Talk of food, actually everyone got to eat but as a comrade, you can't eat expensive food because all you think of is what's going to happen tomorrow if you eat all this money; immediately you decide to eat 'kwa mama nitilie.' University life is fun but as they say, survival is for the fittest. It's a good and interesting run but the challenges are going to make you wish you never left home.

Getting to make decisions on your own and later rethink your life is one of the common things that we as comrades have to live with. You got no food money but "sherehe money" will always be available regardless of anything. As I said bad decision makings are on the top list. Not allowing yourself to suffer because you have the option of having fun each weekend or even midweek.

The goal as a university student is always to graduate. For this to happen you just have to do anything, be it bad decisions or whatever but the goal MUST be achieved.