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I refuse to become old

“Mtoto ni mtoto” this was one of the famous phrase among others used by the old man whenever he was pissed off with students. “Students, you cannot just see me with my white hair and assume that I didn’t pass through campus!” he would lament.

The old man, sir Fayol, mostly remembered from the unit Principles and Practice of Management (PPM) ushered first years to the Course. At first we were shocked that the title of the course we were admitted to the university was missing in the departments list of courses. Sir Fayol, then starts to explain the difference between Information Studies and Information Science and it is after a two hour orientation is when the “quacks” (a name he used to associate to a first year who knows nothing) would understand the importance of the course to be taken through the four years.

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