Ladies of Hive Community Contest #157 ~ The Journey

When have you felt your biggest adrenaline rush?

I could still remember the feeling like it happened yesterday, although when I was faced with writing the exams, I never felt the need to think too much about and even when I saw the score it was a surprise to me as I wasn't serious about reading for the exams, or eager to keep record about the next level of my life the result was going to push me into, not like I am ever serious with many things in this life though.

I was practically forced to register for this exam after eight good years of finishing my Senior Secondary School Education, although I had it in mind to further my education but I was still on the fence at that moment because I knew and had heard about the stress and challenges of furthering into the higher institution especially when I am doing it all by myself.

So, all through the process of registering to sit for the Jamb exams that will push me into gaining admission and then seeing my result, actually I wasn't the one who even checked for the result, one of my friends had to call me and inform me that she just checked my result and sent me a screenshot of my score. I wasn't involved in everything, I was still on the fence if I really wanted to be a student yet after years of leaving the school system.

I sent my result to my mentor, the one who forced me to take the exam, and he too was as shocked as I am because of the score I got, we both knew how careless and unbothered I was about the exams, so I never expected such score, although I knew that I answered well and wasn't expecting to fail but that particular score was not what I was expecting for someone who never showed interest.

The wait for my preferred University to give me admission to study my preferred course began, it was an excruciating moment as I got many doubts as many were being given but I wasn't, I was beginning to accept my fate as I had prayed to God that "if giving me admission is going to bring a lot of stress, challenges and struggles with nobody to help, then I do not want the admission"

That fateful afternoon, I went to visit a friend at her house and we got talking about the school stuff when she asked me to check my admission portal if there were any changes, at first, I was reluctant but after much encouragement, I logged in to my portal with my heart in my hands and their it was, I was given admission to study my desired course in my preferred University, I could feel my happiness escalate to the heavens and back, I could smell my happiness like a sweet smelling savour contaminating everything and everybody around me.

I didn't know if I should jump, dance, or scream, but there it was I had been given admission, and my journey to being a graduate began from that moment.