Today on INSIDE JOHN HARRIS Being the humans that we are, Ill say, it is no new thing that, sometimes, inbetween long hours of studying, our minds tend to lose focus, or better still, focus on other things entirely unrelated to the book in hand. Using myself as a case study, just yesterday, I was reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies first novel (Purple Hibiscus, to be precise), and I was lucky enough to notice that after about 1 hour of reading, Id find myself thinking about unrelated things, and probably, jotting them in my notebook (dont those things literally threaten to kill if one does not write them down?). Then, Id remember I was reading, and continue again. Lets drop this one; Ill give another instance. Inside John Harris library, apart from rows and rows of shelves containing better-than-just-great books and a CCTV watching you to make sure you dont steal them, there are a/cs, constant, nay almost-constant power supply, standard chairs and long tables there to make reading comfortable. Now, these tables are so wide that they have been divided into two by white boards (which are now turning cream with age) so that people on opposite sides will not see themselves. So, what am I driving at? Students that use John Harris, out of loss of focus, have defaced these formerly white boards with various writings and inscriptions in pencils, biros, and markers. I copied out a few for your pleasure: *Cant wait to finish exams! *Hi, why you give failure a bad name? *Kpormo 4 sale. *Why are girls so gullible? *Jacking continues. O God, no more carry over again. *1st class nor easy. *I one go marry. *UNIBEN don tire me, I wan go do mechanic. *JESUS IS COMING SOON!!! *Read ur book and get out. Idiot. *So many books!!! :o *Sammo waz here 2010/ 2011. *The king of my village wuz here. *Call 12312 for your psychological problems. *If someone ve never broken ur heart, u re missing a lot. *READ NOW, FOR EXAM IS AT HAND. *Jacking is prohibited here. *Nodding is not allowed here, but all kinds of crashing (e.g 90 degree crashing, 180 degree crashing, etc) are allowed. *How market? Some are like Facebook where people post updates for others to comment. *(Post) Read to know, but block to pass. (Comment) Hey, youre wrong here; Im reading to know & pass. *(Post) I love playing football!! (Comment) And so? Also, we have philosophical library users. *The worst thing you can do is to do nothing. One day, I was reading for exams, and I got tired. In all sincerity and without trying to sound funny, what met my unfocusing eyes was coincidental with my predicament. *To jack na by force? There are swear words there too. *F*** UNIBEN! I AM GOING HOME. Others cannot be posted by me on here. Ill conclude it with the recent one that caught my interest; it was written boldly in black marker: *Aristotles Dictum For Jackophytes 10 Readometers = 1 Jackometer 10 Jackometers = 1 Kolometer 10 Kolometers = 1 Madometer 10 Madometers = 1 Psychometer. Warning: The Federal Ministry of Education warns that jackers are liable to kolo young. All of this make me remember what that young philosopher, Okurabe H.I, said some years back: It is only natural that the human mind, out of extreme boredom, becomes creative.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:16:50 +0000
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