TO THE FRESHERS AT OAKLAND

You have made it to the College Of Health Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus. You have struggled in your sojourn at the Awka Campus from MPH to Science Village and any other like the utility building, then back to MPH. Having met the minimum requirement for crossing over, you have earned a place in the campus.
The Nnewi campus of NAU is divided into the Okofia campus (which we refer to informaly as Oaklad), and the NAU Teaching Hospital located at the central part of Nnewi town (and you can guess why). Every fresher schools in Okofia so that's where our focus is.
Unlike the main campus, the college whose Provost is Prof. A.M.E. Nwofor is a small student community and with time you'll be able to recognise at least 65 percent of the students. So, on your arrival, apart from the little adjustments you'll have to make in adapting to the dress code and the JJC attitude you'll definitely display here and there either individually or as a group which will mmediately give you away, you can still be spotted as a fresher just by the unfamiliarity of your face.
Every fresher is a student of the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences with respect to academic workload for the next one year. You'll all be studying Human Anatomy, Physiogy, and Biochmistry under the respective departments with Prof. C.S. Ufearo as Dean. You may also have one or two other courses from any other department especially your own department. Except in 2013 due to the ASUU strike, the department of Biochemistry usually sets an incourse assesment quiz before in at least one of their courses before the Xmas break. It might not be different this time.
You have worked hard at Awka, you'll have to work hard here too if not harder. The college library is always available at appropriate hours with fairly conducive atmosphere for study. You might not have attnded any lectures at Awka, but a minimum attendance of 75 percent to lectuures is required here. You may not have played or had any fun at Awka or you may have been involved in other's activities, but over here, get ready to join in the various actiities that would be going on from the first day of school some of which would affect you directly. In being a balanced student, you first must be a student, then strike a balance.
Accomodation in Okofia is not a big problem - you can not run out of choices. There is no school hostel for boys and the girls' hostel is very limited. That not withstanding, if you have not yet gotten your own place by now, you are wrong in my own opinion. Inasmuch as the older students have come to help you out with accomodation in one little way or the other, you are not to be blamed entirely. However, it's not too late to get one. The point is that you should try and settle down before the session begins so you can have no reason to be unsettled afterwards. Do well to identify with any Xtain body of your choice, they'll be of good help to you at this time.
Finally, men and brethren, ad all those that fear the Lord, this is the place that would likely mould and shape you for most of the rest of your life towards being a learned and disciplined individual and a responsible citizen. Here, you learn and unlearn, you develop and mature, you experience and experiment, you live and let live.
GOODLUCK TO YOU

From yours truly,
Onyenemezu Kelechi
400L Medicine and Surgery
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