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HE IS NOT A LECTURER BUT A TEACHER

NCB: Welcome, good evening.
FYB: Good evening. Thank you so much. I’m so glad to be here.
NCB: Can we meet you?
FYB: My name is Balogun Eniola Mary.

NCB: Nice meeting you, Miss Eniola. My name is Moyinoluwa. Can we know about your family background, your childhood and part of your adulthood?

FYB: Nice to meet you. I am from a family of five. I’m the firstborn of my family. I was born on August 13th, 1996. My father is a contractor while my mum is a civil servant. I’m from a humble background, you know. I live in Ibadan but I school in Ile-Ife. I attended Constance Model School, Oremeji Ibadan for my primary education. I attended Saint Gabriel Commercial Senior Secondary School, Sabo, Mokola Ibadan. I’m in the English department here at Obafemi Awolowo University (Oba Awon University) and currently in Part 4. I actually wrote jamb three times for admission which I did not get until I later registered for JUPEB before gaining admission.

NCB: Was English your initial course or you are a wounded lawyer?

FYB: I never like to study Law. Actually, if OAU had Mass Communication during my time, then, I would have chosen Mass Communication over English Language.

NCB: I know right. Why OAU?

FYB : I did not even plan to come to OAU at all. I didn’t know OAU was in existence when I was in search for admission. I wanted to attend University of Ilorin to study Mass Communication. When I could not gain admission then, I applied for OAU JUPEB programme and English was the only course I could pick.

NCB : How is OAU so far?

FYB : Hm. Where should I start from? OAU is interesting but stressful. My first challenge was to adapt to the system of attending early lectures and running from one lecture theater to the other. For example, there was this course I took in Part three, the venue for the lecture was ICAN and I had to trek to the next venue which was Tetfund under hot sun for the next lecture. I adapted to it but right now, I’m tired of OAU and I can barely wait any longer. The interesting part of OAU is that you get to meet people and explore different places on campus.

NCB : Hot sun? Abi vitamin D?

FYB : Ah! What vitamin D is that? (lols)

NCB : Would you still pick UniIlorin over OAU?

FYB : I don’t think so because some people out there studied English and they are into media. The reason why I was chasing after Unillorin was because I wanted to study Mass Communication.

NCB: Apart from academics, what other skills do you have?

FYB: I make hair and I learnt a bit of sewing and I cook too.

NCB : Wow, that’s nice. You are multi-talented. Which do you think is your area of expertise?

FYB : Making hair. I love it so much.

NCB : What do you think of the department?

FYB : Which department?

NCB : English Department.

FYB : Oh! English department can be funny at times. You do not get to determine your grade by how much or well you’ve written in your exam. It’s by the grace of God that we are surviving in English department.

NCB : ‘You do not get to determine your grade by how much/well you’ve written in your exam’ Can you explain explicitly ma?

FYB : What I’m trying to say is that you can study hard for a particular course and your result will not show your effort at all. I don’t know how they grade assignments, tests and exams in this department. All you need to do is to put in your best and leave the rest to God.

NCB: Do you also believe that English lecturers are sadists?

FYB: Maybe some of them, but definitely not all.

NCB: What are your best and worst courses?

FYB : My best courses are Grammar and Stylistics. My worst courses are Semantics and Discourse Analysis.

NCB : Why are they your worst and best courses?

FYB : The course coordinator for Grammar is my H.O.D and he is not a lecturer but a teacher. His method of teaching made Grammar easy especially for someone like me. For Stylistics, lecturers are straight to the point. Once you have your point and good argument to back it up, you are good to go. However, don’t argue off point. For Semantics, the lecturers teaching style is quite confusing and they will be expecting you to write so well in the exam when you didn’t even get the gist of the course. Same for Discourse Analysis too.

NCB : What are your plans after university?

FYB : I want to learn digital marketing (How to sell). I also want to go for my Masters.

NCB : In Mass communication, I guess?

FYB : Yes.

NCB : Your advice for the junior colleagues.

FYB : My advice for them is to seek knowledge and ask questions to avoid making costly mistakes especially in English department. Just in few words, ALWAYS ASK QUESTIONS!

NCB : Make your shout-out.

FYB : Shout out to my Editor-in-Chief (EIC) IfetiOluwani, she is such a darling and to my Bae, Oluwaseun.

NCB : It’s so nice having you tonight. Thanks for granting us your attention.

FYB : Thank you so much for having me.

NCB : It’s our pleasure ma.

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