Final Year, Final Chance To Stress You

I keep on wondering whether it’s a taboo in Ghana to get something done for you easily. I’ve been pissed about this situation for a long time cause it happens always. No matter what, it will happen to you as long as you are in Ghana( Ghanaian). A foreigner might not get to feel this pain since we seem to cherish making things easier for other people.

Am in my final year and as we know it, it’s a norm to fulfil your final year project before you complete. It’s a final-year project and it forms a huge part of your final grade. Since am doing computer science we are mostly encouraged to build systems. Now the thing is when it comes to this project you need a project supervisor.

What these project supervisors do is that they guide you through the project little by little until you finish your project. After that, they assess you and award you the final grade. It’s a norm to see that project supervisors intentionally waste your time so that you don’t get things done easily or rather leave easily when you finish with your final paper. We were assigned our project supervisor weeks ago and we had to literally beg him to meet us. Even when the group was created he didn’t want to join. He insisted all his project students join before we added him.

Well, after that he finally joined. Days passed by and this man said nothing in the group. All this while other supervisors had already met with their project students and approved their project topics. We asked the group leader to set up a meeting and after a week or two it was successful.

On the day of the meeting, it was another hustle. We decided to meet him after his lecture, we followed this him to his office only for him to leave us standing outside. We had to wait for almost 40 to 45 minutes before he spoke to us.

We waited for that long just to hear him talk to us about the normal stuff. He then asked us to choose our topics and send him the proposals through google classroom. This one was another problem. He gave us almost 3 weeks or so to do that. We did that and after submitting he took almost a month to approve the topics. By the time he approved them, we had already started with our end-of-semester exams.

This means I’ll have to wait till we finish the exams before I can start with chapter one of the project. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a norm to stress the hell out of you. It happens literally in all corners of the country. They don’t want you to get through something smoothly. It’s either they ask you to go and come back the next day or they make you wait for hours and hours.

Now that he has responded he has given us up to three weeks to submit chapter one and two. When we go on vacation we will have one more semester to complete but he will find ways of wasting time so even if we finish with the papers early they can keep us in school for up to a month just because of the final year project. Yes, I know people have said final year is hard and all that but it’s because of these little troubles. I don’t understand why things can’t be made easy.

It seems because they didn’t have it easy they want to make it a priority to pass it on year after year and if incase you are in a position of authority one day you will also love to do same or should I say love to see people suffer.

What kind of tradition is this?