Aarinola Olaiya has broken a 28 years old record at the
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Ms. Olaiya is expected to
graduate with 12 distinctions and emerge the 2017 overall best student from the
medical school of the university.
She will thus become the first person to graduate with
distinction in Surgery from OAU since 1989. Revealing what inspired the feat,
in an interview with Punchng, Olaiya said: “I really cannot explain it.
What I can say is that the grace of God has been at work
from my first day in the university. Apart from that, I am a focused person. I
always like to have a goal in mind and I make sure that I focus on that goal
without giving room to distractions.
I think this is what happened. Right from the day I was
admitted into the university, I made sure that I remained focused in my
studies. On her daily routine as an undergraduate, she said: “Every day, I
would wake up, have my bath and attend lectures.
I usually go to the classroom in the morning. Sometimes, I
would attend a lecture at 8am till about 4pm. Then I would return to my hostel
to have some rest and attend to other things or proceed on call.
Sometimes I would stay on call till the following day.
Basically my daily routine was like that.” On her relationship life, she said:
“Yes. I have a boyfriend, but I never allowed him to come between me and my
studies.
He does not live in Ile-Ife. So he visits me in school
sometimes. Most of the time, we communicate to each other via the telephone.”
What a genius!
I predict she will proceed abroad for further studies; hopefully on scholarship.
And like all the others that Nigeria failed to encourage, brain-drain would present that enormous success she totally deserves.
In the meantime, congrats to her!
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