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If you’re a fresh student of any tertiary institution in Nigeria, this article is hundred percent for you to read and digest. You have to make your first year in school smooth and nice because you haven’t been to that environment before.
Are you already in a hurry to see the most important things you should not resume school as a fresher without? Okay calm down, lets take them gently.
9 Things Every Fresher Must Have Before Resuming Higher Institution
Now let’s use this section to delve in straight to the 9 things a fresher must have before resuming higher institution in a first year;
1. Smart Phone
The importance of a smart phone for a student cannot be overemphasized as it aids in:
- Access to information, news and updates, research
- Access to electronic study materials, snapping/taking notes, and taking photos of memories.
Seeing its importance, it is of more importance to a fresh resuming student than a laptop or a tablet (although exceptions may exist).
2. Books & Study Aid Materials:
These include things like notebooks, pens, highlighting pens/markers, calculators, laptops, tablets, bags, etc.
Decide on which ones suit your preference, depending on your study style. It is not necessary to buy or carry along with you study aid materials; you won’t need as important as they may look. Carry what works best for you.
3. Food Items:
It is very necessary to carry along with you raw food items because it may be difficult to get the kind of food you are used to at your arrival at school.
It is important to go with at least a little, even if you have intentions of buying every food item you may need on your arrival at school.
This could also have other importance considering inflation, as there is a big tendency for prices of food items to go up with time.
4. Extra Money:
If it is within your reach, you will need extra money to go to school with to foot unforseen expenses as it is your first time in the school environment.
5. Medical/Preventive Pills:
If you have a known health condition, it is paramount to resume school with those medications and extra that could serve for a period of time while you make findings on how to get those medications in the new environment.
Even if you don’t have a known health condition, it is important to carry along analgesics (pain relievers) and malaria preventive pills strictly as prescribed by a health professional.
6. Treated Mosquito Net:
This is an important item to resume with as well. It serves as a barrier between humans and mosquitoes.
It’s not very convenient to travel with a mattress but, that is not the case for a mosquito net. It generally reduces your risk of being infected with malaria.
- Power Bank:
This will help in boosting your productivity and focus by making you not to worry about battery rundown during study.
It helps to power your phone and other gadgets during long classes and in cases of unexpected power failure. For this reason, it is best to have all, or at least most of your gadgets (including your laptop and reading lamp) charge through USB.
8. Torch/Reading Lamp:
Despite the torch feature on smart phones, it is also essential to have a torch itself, as it helps you develop a healthy reading habit and help maintain focus, as reading with your smart phone could be a source of distraction in disguise, aside from other health implications to your eyes.
Excluding the temptation of using your phone while studying, a good reading torch or lamp could be adjustable to a certain brightness to suit your eyes focus at that time (eye health).
This is highly neglected by most students, which explains one of the reasons why many students graduate from school with poorer vision than they had when they gained admission.
9. Pressing Iron:
This seems to be the odd one in the list. But it is equally as important as the others because your looks and appearance matter.
You may want to say, “I will borrow from someone when I get there,” but this could have diverse disadvantages for you in the following ways:
You may be given a pressing iron that is not easily regulable, and it could damage your cloth.
It could develop an irreparable fault during use, and it would result in you getting a replacement for the owner. It is best to have yours.
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In Conclusion
There are other basic things a fresh student should possess. Do well to outline them in the comments section below for other freshers to know. Thanks you and please don’t forget to share this article with your colleagues.