adminLatwell Nyangu
Youth Interactive Writer
A dream does not become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.
Good luck always accompanies a man who doesn’t include it in his plans — that’s true.
The academic journey always gives us a reality check as students and college life is never a walk in the park as many people would want to assume.
Of most interesting this week is about how students have become the ‘Jesus’ of today who are raising the ‘dead’ (assignments & projects).
Students are using previous work done by other students, and on research by going to the academic graveyard.
This has become a chain and it goes from generation to generation.
It’s an academic crime but I don’t think there will be dockets prepared for this, I am just saying.
Campus Reflections will quote a bible verse from John 11:43.
Jesus performed a miracle by raising Lazarus from the dead. “When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
“Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
It was as simple as that.
Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead after three days and many people think it ended there.
Interestingly students have become the ‘little Jesuses’ who visit the graveyard of academics to raise the dead.
College life comes with a lot of responsibility, it is such a mammoth task, a herculean one.
Imagine preparing to go to attend lectures, writing assignments, projects all these come with responsibilities. If you are not strong, you end up quitting. But quitters never win, winners never quit, that is the game of academics.
I have taught myself not to have the surrender attitude when I begin the journey of academics, I believe in “I win or I win” situations.
So goes the game of academics.
Going to college is like going to work but I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Such scenarios are very common at college where students are simply taking the already done assignments, projects and other related school work.
This has bred a ‘laziness syndrome’ killing the research purpose.
College work is being recycled where students are no longer researching but have become so lazy.
While the journey is not for the faint-hearted, project assignments are the commonest items being recycled and resurrected.
My fellow students simply visit the ‘graveyard’ and check what to resurrect.
But hard work beats talent if talent doesn’t work hard.
‘Kumutsa zvitunha’ has become so fashionable at college where students are taking yesteryear assignments and projects.
They just ask previous students on the assignments they have done and change the names and a few paragraphs.
Recycling is not only in plastics but at college.
Such issues are not a new problem in academia, but it is a serious issue when it comes to research.
Students need to research to equip themselves.
Not every type of learning is for every person. In my experience, I have not put much focus on recycling and resurrecting.
However, we come from a culture where we are expected to respond to certain stimuli the same way everyone else does, and on demand.
High-achieving students who feel pressured to attain perfection may tend to visit the ‘grave yard’ as a way to find an edge on the competition or to keep a single bad test score from sabotaging months of hard work.
And research has found that students who receive praise for being smart—as opposed to praise for effort and progress—are more inclined to exaggerate their performance and to cheat on assignments, likely because they are carrying the burden of lofty expectations.
While resurrecting the already done work may not be a thrill ride, students employ it as it helps in meeting deadlines, help in saving time. They’re willing to gamble when they think they can keep up the ruse—and more inclined to believe they can get away with it.
Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it, especially for us students.
It appears that resurrecting is contagious among students and may even serve as a kind of social adhesive. College classes can often be difficult; the challenge is even greater when you are lazy.
If you are a student and have never heard of the academic graveyard (kumutsa zvitunha), maybe we say, you haven’t started.
Some students go by night like Nicodemus. As usual, Campus Reflections talks about what happens at college.
Many people think criminals are only those found on the wrong side of the law in terms of theft, or the robberies, murders, assault, domestic violence, but students can be real criminals.
As students we have adopted what is called ‘Lazarus moments’, where we ‘visit the grave yard’ to resurrect already finished work including assignments or projects.
Its popularly known as kumutsa zvitunha. That is why , earlier on, I dared to say if you are a student and you don’t know what kumutsa zvitunha is about, you haven’t yet started.
But here is my point: knowing doesn’t mean you do it. ALl I’m saying is, as a student, you have to know what is happening at the campus. Such criminality, we have to do away with it.
Most of the students have done so well through hard work and if you too can commit to working hard, there is great reward and a bright future.
Nothing that happened on this earth has not been done, no wonder why students think to use the bins. Well each to his own, but that’s not the way to go my friends.
Cheerio to all the undertakers!
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