22nd of August 2012 was a cloudy day at Nsukka. The rain started in the wee hours of the morning. However by 5:30am, it seemed to have subsided. I took my bike to St. Peters chaplaincy for the morning mass. The rain started drizzling heavily once more. Since I had originals and photocopy of my credentials in a brown envelope, I had to take a taxi to the venue of interview.(I had to ignore my bike at the church).
As an applicant computer scientist, I was conveyed to Abuja building where I hoped to find the physical science conference room as indicated in the school's portal.
To my dismay, a staff at the computer science department told me the interview will be at jimbazz building. Without no taxi insight, i had to wait for the rain to reduce its energy before i continued my journey.
At jimbazz, nobody seemed to know anywhere as all the person i asked regarding the conference knew not of its location.
Luck smiled on me when i met a fellow who was there for the interview. He assured me i was in the right building since this was where he had his first try last year.
My dear, with unn, transparency is the order of the day.
As i waited for other candidates to arrive, i feared that population may make the interview last till evening.
Due to the rains and late arrival of the dean, the interview started by 12:10am. In the whole of physical science(7 departments), only 17 candidates met the cut-off point; as against the over eight hundred candidates that sat for the examination.
All qualified candidates were called one after the other to present their credential to an eighteen-man panel comprising of the dean, his secretary, all the HODs and their secretary with the faculty officer and clerk.
It was indeed an intimidating panel but the interview was just a show of credentials.
Those who scored below two hundred thronged the place hoping to lobby their way through or some luck that the cut-off may be lowered; to thier chagrin, they had to go home in downcast face under the downpour as the panel would not hear of it.
We hope to hear the release of the admission list for both direct entry and utme.
Best of luck to you all from Ujah Jideofor.
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