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A FEW THINGS I WISH I DID AS AN UNDERGRADUATE
1. I wish I listened less to what people had to say. I would be more forceful. I would have spoken more in classes; built my communication skills even better and developed better relationships with my lecturers.
1. I wish I listened less to what people had to say. I would be more forceful. I would have spoken more in classes; built my communication skills even better and developed better relationships with my lecturers.
2. I wish I started a brand earlier. I was ambitious and hardworking but often times, I had no platform to fully realise my ideas. Politicking and useless propaganda stifled a lot of things. If I had a brand, by now, it would have grown solid. I would have done much more then.
3. I wish I asked for mentorships or built more relationships with my seniors and lecturers. Many were quite distant but I could have tried. They would have pointed me to internships and summer jobs. I would have had more practical skills before leaving school.
4. I wish I offered to be a research assistant to any of my professors. I would have been better at research and perhaps, I would have published more than I did, in local and international journals. The projection would have been higher.
5. I wish I randomly offered to assist my seniors in law firms with research or minor tasks. Without the benefit of many internship opportunities, this would have given me insight into how law services are delivered to clients.
6. I wish I started a student club, attend national and international competitions much earlier. I would have done more of them. These would have occupied me enough to cut down on a lot of unproductive activities. I enjoyed my sociability but I wish I didn’t waste so much time.
7. I wish I made more friends outside my faculty. I would have gained more perspectives. If I had more friends in Medicine, Engineering, the Arts, perhaps, I would have had ideas that would break ice.
8. I wish I gave some to elective courses such as Economics, the same detailed obsession I gave my law courses. I realise now, how some of these courses are remarkably important to corporate law and governance.
9. The dots connect better when we look at them in hindsight. But importantly, I have learned from these things. I have gained clarity. Going forward, I know better, what to do with my time and abilities. From here, it’s the stars and beyond.
All credit to @OJayansola for making us do this.
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