“What Students Can Do During The Holiday” is what we shall discuss today.
This has become necessary as we have seen overtime that most university and secondary school students spend their holidays doing.
If fact, research done by the USA agency for holiday and resort control shows that over 95% of students do not engage themselves during the holidays on things that will be benefit to them in the long term.
Trust me, you don’t want to be in that kind of situation at all.
As I was highlighting in my topic on “7 deadly mistakes Undergraduates make and why you should avoid them, learning a handwork is very vital as a student.
If you have not read that article, head over there now before you continue this article.
Also See:- 6 Top signs of a wasted university education
Nonetheless, schools at times give students outrageous holiday periods and students don’t in turn maximize it to the fullest.
Immediately after the sessional or semester exams, students see the holiday that follows as an avenue to only relax without subjecting themselves to any form of learning or personal development.
3 months is such a long time to waste doing nothing.
Therefore, you might want to make the most of it any time you are on holidays.
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List Of What Students Can Do During The Holiday
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Read Read Read
It might sound weird that you just got back from reading and now again your are going back to it.
Oh yea I understand but really, the day you stop reading, that day you begin to start dying.
There are so many other things you can read during your holidays aside your academic books.
You can seek to develop yourself in other areas.
As it is often said, if you want to hide anything from a black man, hide it in a book right?.
This means that you will need to head to a bookshop and purchase books on the areas you want to develop.
If you are a Nigerian, of course you should buy a lot of books on leadership as we completely lack it in this country.
You can also buy some spiritual books that will further open your understanding as to how the kingdom of God works.
Finally, I have two friends in the department of Mechanical Engineering [John Philip and Isibor Blessing].
These two guys exhaust two of the most difficult courses for the next semester before they resume.
The funny part is that at the beginning of a new semester or session, you will discover your class mates already answering examination past questions.
While this may be shocking to say the least, it is very effective.
If you can develop your brain to understand anything even before being taught, then that’s a good memory you are building.
There is nothing bad in also trying to take your study a little further during the holiday by taking extra classes pertaining to your course of study.
Likewise, there are several libraries around and you might want to make us of some very interesting journals also.
All these are part of the building process to become who you want to be.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Traveling
My friend and I were having a discussion some times ago and he said ” I did my primary school right here in Benin city. I also attended my junior and Senior secondary school right here in Benin city. Finally, I am still schooing in the University of Benin.’
Then of course I concluded for him by saying “You will also get married In Benin city and your children will continue the cycle (lol)”.
If there are people like this reading this article, shout hallelujah in the comment box.
Some of us have never really traveled anywhere before apart from where we were born.
The Funny part is that we don’t even care whether or not we even embark on some adventure despite the fact that we love to.
Furthermore, fear is another thing that comes to mind when traveling.
However, what makes you who you are is getting over your fears and catching fun while you have the opportunity to.
Sometimes around October 29th, 2017, I was very skeptical over traveling with my Faculty Association (NUESA) friends to Bauchi State, Nigeria.
It was majorly because of the distance and the terrorist threat in that region .
This is because Bauchi State has had several attacks in recent times from the sect Boko Haram.
Well, I had to make a decision and guess what, I never regretted going there.
Of course Bauchi State is a Northern state in Nigeria and We were going from the South (Edo state).
Imagine the four cardinal point and you will understand that the distance apart should really be far.
We started off with no knowledge of where we were going to and so had to depend on google maps.
Trust me it wasnt really funny at all, we got to Bauchi State in over 19-20 hours with our bus.
Quite Interesting story/journey you might want to say.
The Good Part About Traveling.
The good part about traveling is that you meet new people with believe and culture different from yours.
Then of course, you learn their way of life.
When we got to Bauchi state, we made a lot of new friends as you will in the pictures below soon.
We learned to eat their foods (fura de’ Nunu) and went for sight seeing.
We visited Yankari Game reserve in Bauchi state and even though we couldn’t see all the animals because of time, we swarm in the wiki spring in yankari.
Likewise, when we were returning, we had an accident on the way and trust me, it was all God.
He was faithful to see that the accident didn’t escalate more than that.
Then of course, we have spent so much and we were stranded in Kogi state.
Anyway, some caring women there gave us food and dried fish which we all ate with joy .
We slept there that night and fixed the bus the next morning and continued our journey to Edo state.
Although before we did, we took photographs with all the woman there and trust me, they were happy.
In conclusion, there are hazards on the way (we know that), but what you should know is that they are not meant for you.
Get over your fears and get some experience from traveling.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Acquire A Skill
In my article on the 7 deadly mistakes undergraduates make which I earlier introduced at the beginning of this article, I stressed the importance of acquiring a skill before, during and after school.
We have passed the era of one page resume.
An employer wants to employ someone who knows his field very well and also can multi task.
Therefore, you can acquire a skill during the holiday.
If you check round the undergraduates we have nowadays, you will be shocked at what they have to offer.
In fact, some undergraduates don’t even have computer skills.
I have heard that severally from undergraduates and when I do, I just ask them “What have you been using your spare time and holidays for?.
When school is in session, you have little or not time to learn some certain things.
As an engineer, you should be kept abreast with skills like auto-CAD and Solid works and like wise, programming skills.
You can use your spare time to learn Javascript, CSS, HTML, PHP and the likes.
The good part is that they are available everywhere for free in sites like w3schools.com and Codecademy.com.
Trust me these things are very interesting when you get to do them.
There are several skills you can learn during the holiday.
You can learn skills such as cooking, drawing, listening, positive thinking, public speaking and self defence.
I learnt listening skill from my Lecturer and professor of Design (Prof. G. O. Ariave).
He can attend to about 5 people at same time. He can listen for Africa.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Get A Job And Earn Some Cash
This is the 21st century and we have long passed the era where we will totally depend on our parents for everything.
It is a time designed for us to think for ourselves and gain respect from our parents.
If you are still the type that waits for monthly income from your parents always before you can survive, then you are certainly on a long thing.
Well if you the type that struggles with finance on campus , then you can get a job to ease your financial burden.
As undergraduates, there are several opportunities out there if only you put your heart to it and learn the technique of time management.
Without wasting much time, I will quickly highlight some jobs you can do to make quick cash during the holiday.
Online Jobs
Trust me, this is one of the coolest jobs you can ever find out there with dedication, patience and focus.
Nothing good ever comes from hurrying.
Well, I recommended this because this is what I actually do.
The best alternative to offline jobs (which are not easy to come by these days) is online jobs (which is easy to get along with).
Well you can be a blogger like me and become a CEO (funny right)?. Keep laughing while I Keep Making my money.
Well that’s just on a lighter note.
However, I have written close to two articles on how to start up and why you should start up.
You can see them in the links below;
Likewise, you can decide to be youtuber and have a youtube channel creating video contents and sharing them, a freelancer, an information marketer and write, narrate, translate, draw, make videos for people who need it on fiverr.
Anyway, the problem with freelancing and fiverr is that you can open an account and never learn anything from it.
Recently, you can even be typing online and making cool cash with it.
Anyway, the best way to earn online is through steemit.
Steemit was launched in March 24th, 2016.
Read about it here in the link below.
Recommended:- Make Money Online With Steemit.
Instead of wasting your thoughts and observations on Facebook, you can do that on steemit and make money.
Carwash Business
Washing a car will cost up to N500 in less than an hour.
What this means is that if you have customer traffic on a very good day, you can take at least N5,000 home after all expenses and sharing formula.
Therefore, if you are indigent, you can make use of the opportunity by heading to any car wash center and work.
However, it is advisable you meet the real owner of the place as most times, the people working there don’t even want competition.
House Keeper
Whether you believe it or not, there are a lot of rich people around your vicinity.
You can take advantage of the fact that they are too busy and lazy and offer to be a house keeper for the time being.
Trust me, before you visit 3 or 4 houses or less, you will have gotten one who needs your service and trust me, they pay handsomely.
Summer Teaching
Believe it or not, a lot of homes are in need of intelligent people who can nurture their children academically.
It even doesn’t have to be when the kids are on holiday.
This is because students at times need close monitoring.
Therefore what I am saying here is that you can do it anytime you are on holiday as parents are ready anytime to bounce on the opportunity.
Negotiate the price, impact and add value to the life of the students academically.
I have talked more on this in one of my article titled “Earn Money while schooling”.
You may want to click that and read it.
Manual Jobs
I have earlier said that if you are indigent student, there is something always called the hustling spirit.
When hustling, you don’t care about what people will feel or say about.
All you think is the money.
Therefore, if you have the strength , you can choose to embark on this.
Loading a truck with sand can earn you N15,000 for a single trip and likewise earn you close to N2,000 molding blocks.
Cool right?.
Pump Attendant
If you are the type that dislikes boredom, then you can get busy during the holiday by working as a pump attendant.
Trust me this job is fun and the rate at which you meet new people and make new friends is exponential.
Sales Attendant
This is almost similar to the one above.
You can also decide to work as a sales attendant in any supermarket, restaurant, boutique, electronic shop etc.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Attend Camps
Likewise, during the holidays, a lot of organizations organize camps for students or youths as it were as well as teenagers.
It is not bad to add to your existing moral values or a build on it if you are lacking in that area.
By attending camps, you will learn new stuffs and also make new friends which makes your holiday fun.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Get Updated About The Most Recent Technology
It is no longer news that when we are in school, a lot of stuffs take our attention and most times we concentrate only on academics.
Research shows that snap chat gets over 10 billion views per day.
Gargantuan right?.
Of course there is never a good time to learn some new and amazing technology currently trending online.
In fact, it may amaze you to know that there are still some students who are not on Facebook, twitter, Instagram and the likes today.
Well all these stuffs may be distractions, but they are also very beneficial.
I bet you, there are some certain things you don’t know about Facebook that you really need to know about.
Read about the benefits of Facebook and some facts about it in the links provided below.
Bond Your Family Together By Speaking To Them
Some few years ago before I got into school, I had hardly do anything at home outside house chores.
The House was really boring.
Whenever there is power, I watched just movies and when there is no power, I just go to my room or step out.
You know the issue with that time?
I wasn’t really matured enough to gather such an assembly of adults and discuss.
In fact what would we be talking about?.
The good part is that right now, you are matured and there are some certain things you have learned outside your academics.
Right now, you can serve as an adviser to your family.
You can resolve issues whenever they arise and contribute meaningfully to the growth of your family.
Therefore, if you were still acting like before, its high time you changed.
Make the home lively and let them feel your presence.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Serve As A Volunteer
Well for me, holiday is a time for improving and impacting into the lives of others as well as self development.
My friend and I visit schools in our areas and volunteer to take them on some subjects to improve them.
Basically, we teach them on how to study and the right reading manners they should posses.
Nevertheless, our main purpose is to encourage them and give them advice and direction on how to have self fulfillment in their academics through the right reading habits.
When you volunteer to help others, it comes with a lot of benefits ranging from accomplishment, connection with others, satisfaction and strengthening your community.
More so, it is a good way of giving back to your community what you have learned back in school.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Set Goals For Next Session
Setting goals is the first step of turning the visible into the invisible.
It give you a baseline for measuring success.
Even when things look rough, because you already have a plan, you will just know that there will be light at the end of the tunnel.
Nevertheless, even before you embark upon setting goals for the next session, it is also imperative to reflect on the past one.
Ask yourself questions like [what did I do right in past session, what did I not do right in the past session, what were my challenges in the past session etc].
Asking your self this questions and finding genuine answers to them is a good place to start for the coming session.
Seek to work on the things or areas you didn’t do well in the previous one and of course seek to fix all of those issues in the coming session.
When setting goals for the next session, it is very imperative that you set goals that are realistic.
In fact, is important to set SMART goals.
SMART as used here means you need to set goals that are SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACHIEVABLE, REALISTIC AND TIME BOUND.
We have seen over time, that students do not set SMART goals.
They set crazy goals and goals they can’t achieve even for the long term period.
The bitter truth is that when you have too many things on your itinerary, you will lose focus and miss out on the right things.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Learn To Prepare Meals/Cooking
I have stressed the disadvantages of consuming junk foods already in “why students should not eat junk foods”.
You might want to read that now by clicking the link.
It is no longer news that there is no much time in school to settle to prepare good meals.
Anyways, when you are at home, you have the time and space to do all that.
So ensure you take out quality time to prepare delicious meals to for your friends and families.
This will serve as a major advantage to you when you go back to school.
Proper preparation saves time.
When you already know how to cook meals easily, it won’t take you much time to prepare meals when you are back to school.
It is an habit you should cultivate this holiday.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Learn How To Speak New Languages
On my most recent travel to the northern part of my country (Nigeria), I learnt how to speak a new language.
Trust me, I often envy and long to be like some students who can speak different languages.
If you are in a country like ours where there several hundreds of languages, you will be missing if you can’t at least understand the three major ones (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba).
Nigeria is a type of country where there are tribal sentiments everywhere and trust me you can take advantage of this by just learning a new language.
Well personally for me, I can understand and speak Hausa and Yoruba to a very large extent.
Last year on my way to Abuja to see my family, I encountered a serious issue.
We got to Kogi state and made a quick stop to stretch our legs, buy and eat some snacks and the likes.
I stepped down from the bus and walked straight to an Hausa guy selling SUYA.
As usual, I ordered for five hundred Naira worth and began to chew.
Unknowing to me that I had lost all the cash on me.
I was doing the normal search round my pocket but of course, the Hausa man was already furious.
But then it was too late, I have lost all my money.
Immediately, I switched and began to speak Hausa language to him, trust me, it melted him completely and he allowed me to go.
Imagine, I never knew how to speak his language…….
This Holiday, you can dedicate part of your time to learn some new language.
You don’t necessarily need to get someone to teach as everything is now in the internet nowaday, therefore, simply visit one of the site below to learn
- Totalfactsnigeria.com
- Teachyourselfhausa.com
- Transparent.com
- Wetinhappen.com.ng
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Take Online Courses
I have friends (Egbon Cedric Osasere and Emmanuel Aidi) who take unique advanatage of this opportunity.
Trust me, these guys are very versatile in their field and in general.
It is however very relevant to note that there are thousands of online courses available on the internet that you can take advantage of.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Learn To Manage Money
If you don’t know how to care for money, then money will certainly stay away from you.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want and to impress people they don’t like.
It is no longer news that those who don’t manage their money will always work for those who.
Therefore it’s left for you to choose your own side of the coin.
Money management is a highly valuable skill you need right now and later on.
Spend your holiday wisely in learning how to manage money by reading books and using online searches.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Learn To Fix Things
I have a friend in my school (University of Benin) who fixes spoilt bulbs.
Anyway he does mainly energy bulbs.
He goes round and collects all the energy bulbs that are not functional and fixes them.
Trust me it is 100% working.
He has also monetized it as he sells the ones he fixes himself and and collect money for fixing yours.
I am not saying you should go learn how to fix spoilt bulbs, but of course there are millions of stuffs you can fix ou there.
Put your brian to thinking and your hands to work and before you know it, you are good to go.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Improve Your Physical Health & Mental Health
It is a known fact that when we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
The truth of the whole matter is that Health is not usually valued until sickness comes.
Your physical and mental health is more important than the test, the interview, the lunch, the date, the stuyding and the like.
You must therefore learn to take good care of yourself during the holiday.
Of course, you have to keep yourself fit as physical fitness is more than a physical challenge.
It is actualy a mental one.
Therefore, to enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise and improve you physical and mental health.
Furthermore, ensure you take enough water, participate in daily reflection, read before going to bed, sleep regualarly etc.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Increase Your Typing and Reading Speed
Trust me, you can just get busy on your laptop and try to play some cool games like Mavis….
Learn how to type fast.
This will further aid your speed reading or reading fast.
There are several students out there that cannot read fast.
They are very slow readers.
However, research shows that people who often behave in this manner have cultivated this habit right from their secondary school days.
As an undegraduate pof any university, you be able to manage at least 20 words in at most 0.03 seconds.
There are a lot of online tools that can assist you to become a better and a faster reader.
Examples of those sites include, Speeder.com, Learningtechniques.com, mimdtools.com, etc.
What Students Can Do During The Holiday | Dedicate Time To Learn More About Your Family
Whether you belive me or not, family is everything.
Let me tell you a little story.
“Some few years back, there were only few people I can boast of knowing oustide my Nuclear family.
In fact, even the ones I knew were just by facal recognition.
I never really knew how they were related to me.
It was really that bad.
Well, when I got admitted into the University, we did a course called “General Studies” where we had to study almost all the philosophers that have een on existence.
It wasnt really funny.
We had to learn several names and try to figure out how they where related to each other as some of the philosophers were bossess to some.
Well, God helping me, I had an A in the course.
You might think that was all, but it wasn’t.
I picked out something from it.
The knowledge I have learned in storing names of individuals I never knew fell on me and I extended a good hand to those who were related to me.
I took out a jotter, I wrote their names down and requested for their pictures and spread it all over the wall of my room.
Trust me, it was deliberate and it was worth it.
Therefore, I was able to connect with everyone of my nuclear and extended family.
You can achieve this this holiday.
That’s all I can take on the topic titled “What Students Can Do During The Holiday|Be Creative”.
Thanks for Reading
O3schools Team
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