Start of the Seond Year at AAUN

Posted at 5:35 PM, Friday, September 8, 2006

Registration didn't go as smoothly as before, but on the whole it was ok. Freshmen this year did seem to think there were quite a few number of problems, but hey, we're moving to a new campus and there are bound to be some glitches. Thank God it's over now, phew! But classes have begun, and I've never had to work harder in my life! My first class was Software Applications I by Dr. Quaye, 8:00am in the Windows/Linux lab on the permanent campus. He began the session with a very different lecture: mostly talked about what we did in the holidays, and gave a very brief overview of the course. I'll have to say Informations Systems Networking is a cool major, and it's bound to get nicer as we move along. This fall I'm taking IT Systems Hardware and Software, Fundamentals of DBMS, General Chemistry II, Principles of Programming II - Java, and Calculus I. I'm doing 19 credit hours this semester cos I can't let go of the chemistry course. We're supposed to take 18, but I have Dean Kah's permission to do 19. I only pray and hope I'm able to survive at the end of the semester with good grades. God willing I will. Actually, students missed their flights to Yola, so classes were slowed down for the first week, that's why Dr. Quay was entertaining us, haha. The other classes also began slowly, obviously the professors didn't want the students absent to miss anything important. But by the second lecture, the speed was back to normal, as most students had arrived by then. The Calculus course seems the hardest, but I really like the way Dr. Quarcoo explains things. Dr Grakhov (one of the new faculty) took us in the Hardware course. It's one of my favourites, and I think Dr. Grakhov explained everything really nice. I also had my Java II, DBMS, and Chemistry classes. Java II as usual was fun, Dr. Fonkam is really good at explaining programming concepts and principles. Dr. Akinkunmi (another new faculty. We have lots of new faculty this year) is taking the DBMS course and he is really cool. I can't wait to move on in that course. Dr. Tarek as always made chemistry really interesting. I just love chemistry and am not willing to let go of it (as I mentioned earlier). Well I guess I won't be able to take it next semester. But only God knows, so I'll leave it all to Him.

During Registration - Top picture is Dean Kah (Left) and Dean Smith (Right). Below is Me getting tired, haha along with everyone else that worked on the whole registration and orientation process. I completely forgot to metion that Dean Kah is acting dean of School of Business and Entrepreneurship and also dean of School of Information Technology and Communications. Dean Smith is dean of School of Arts & Sciences. They're both just awesome! I couldn't wish for better deans. Of course I still do miss Dr. Hosseini a lot, I wish he had still been with us, but I guess it was God's will for him to leave. We had more work this time around compared to the last 2 times. And thankfully, we got everything done in time. It could have been better, but God's way is the best, Thank you Jesus!

What else, hmm,let me see....... oreintation was good. We have registered about 140 new students, that makes our student population a total of 300+. Awesome! The new site is absolutely neat! Sorry I didn't yet get permission to post pictures, I need to talk with the Public relations office about that and get those posted as soon as possible. But, I don't know why the new campus feels lonely, probably cos there are not many trees there. Anyways, you can see for yourself when I post the pictures. Since I can't think of anything else to write and I have to leave to catch the bus, I guess you'll have to wait for my next entry to know more about what's happening here at AAUN. Of course you can always goto to other students' blogs, some have been updating regularly. Really got to go, keep checking for updates, but mostly on week-ends. God bless you and me, Amen.