Physics? Please count me out!

Some things comes to us naturally and some things are rather difficult to grasp and those ones which comes naturally are easier to deal with while we have to grapple with dealing with the difficult tasks. One of the most difficult things I have had to learn was during my time in secondary school. I was a science student but after all said and done, I would have preferred that I read arts in school.

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During our secondary school, there was just this rave about everyone who feels they are smart wanting to read science courses while the arts courses was for the dull students or so we thought maybe apart from those who are brilliant that also wants to become lawyers. The other ones are seen as dullards and this led most of us into believing that we all had to do science courses and for some like me, that was where my struggles began.

I love biology and some science based courses but having to deal with physics and chemistry was something that was out of the norm for me. I had difficulties with learning physics in secondary school. This may be due to the fact that I didn’t have a good background in introductory technology which was a sequel to physics class in our senior secondary. Moreover when we entered SS1, our physics teachers were very epileptic.

Not that they had epilepsy but it was somehow difficult for the school to retain good physics teachers. They kept going and coming and you know what happens when teachers are not stable in school. The scheme of syllabus are not duely followed. So many courses are skipped and there are so many cut and join lessons that ends up leaving the students more confused than ever. Coupled with the fact that the physics be sounding like Greek.

I didn’t understand one thing from my Physics class and I didn’t even know how we wasted three years in school secondary school not knowing our left from our right. I was very good with theory courses but definitely not the calculations of physics or do I even bring in the strange chemical equations that come with chemistry. Maybe my being good with theory courses would have been my cue to know that I am not supposed to be a science students but rather an art student.

I struggle so much with physics that it was my worst subject in school. I wrote my WAEC exams in senior secondary school and it was the only subject I had a pass in. I got As in all the other courses except physical and that’s why till today, I am not able to use my WAEC results. I have to use my NECO results because in what would be deemed a miracle, I Passed Physics with a C5. I don’t know how that happened but it must be God cos I can freely tell you that I don’t know what I wrote in the exam.

I didn’t eventually go on to master physics and to make the matters more bizarre was the fact that I was given admission in the university to read chemistry as a full course. Of all the courses in this world. Well, news flash, I have graduated without knowing what I studied. I never even liked the course for anything. I just read to pass the course and not to know it and that’s part of the reason why I am where I am today.

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