12 CATEGORIES OF STUDENTS YOU WILL DEFINITELY MEET AT NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA(NOUN) PART 1... NOUN undoubtedly is the most prestigious distance learning institution in Africa and one of the best in the world. Being one of her students, i have discovered the following categories of students you will definitely meet if you come to NOUN. 1. THE FACILITATORS: these are the serious sets of students that have vast knowledge in their discipline and are willing to pass it on to their junior ones in their respective departments. some of them can lecture better than their H.O.Ds. Sometimes one would be tempted to ask what they are still doing in school having known the alpha and omega of their course of study. I would love to be in this category.........#wink 2. THE HOMIES: These are wonderful students that you would see only on the day of registration and during examination days. They don't come to school owing to the fact that their work won't give them chance. I love this set of students because they are fulfilling the school motto "work and learn". 3. THE QUESTIONNAIRES: This set is worse than the homies. They don't even know the road to their study centers. All they do is to sit at home and ask questions like; when are we resuming? when is the course and exams registration commencing and closing? Is the TMA out yet? some of them do not even know their matric numbers and their login password so they will still call to ask their course mates. Class reps and assistants suffer most from the students in this category. 4. THE HELTERS SKELTERS: This set does not do anything on time, they are always late. They can wait until the last day of course/exams registration, TMA submission and start running from pillar to post pestering their course mates to help them do what they supposed to have done earlier. If care is not taken this set can come late even on judgment day......#wink 5. THE COMPLAINERS: As their name implies, this set complain about virtually every policy the school introduces. The have both national and personal complains at any given time. If they are not having issues with missing results, they are having a missing TMA on their portal. They always have something to complain and write to the headquarter. Even the new VC knows them already.....lol. 6. THE SCHOLARS: These ones happen to be the brilliant students in their departments. They can argue with their facilitators while the lecture is on going. They ask their facilitators questions that would take them 40days fasting and prayers to answer. The students in this category can read more than Prof. Wole Soyinka and they can speak grammar more than Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon. Sometimes I wonder if they are professors in disguise. To be continued from the next post...........