Adjusting to newfound freedom in university

Moving from high school where everything is controlled to university where one takes charge of one’s life is a significant transition in a student’s life. This week, we look at how freshmen handle the freedom that comes with this change.

Joshua Otieno slept in a ladies hostel the day he joined Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.

It was getting late and the first year student who had travelled to the university alone in a town he had never been to before was still stuck in a long queue, waiting to be cleared to get a room in a hostel.