NETWORK ISSUES: I Almost Repeated A Year At School

Hello friends, how are we all doing today?.

In our world today the internet controls most things in our lives. One cannot imagine how the world would be if the internet is taking down just for a day, I know some of us might find life very challenging during these period of time.

Pixabay

Most of us have been completely tied to Internet, we cannot stay a day without using it. I must say that 'Internet also rule the world'.

When it comes to having network issues, we all have had one challenges or the other. Some of us the network failed us when we needed it the most and it felt like hell to us. But like they say we are not perfect, so don't expect the internet to be perfect also because it was created by humans like us.

I have experienced network issues times without numbers, especially when I needed it the most, but I would like to share just two bad experience.

My school fees deadline battle

One of my experience came during my their year in college. I had difficulty paying my fees during that session. I was trying my best to get some money so that I could pay up my fees, because my school had a " No feed no exam policy", which they showed no mercy if you are unable to pay your fees. Failure of not paying your fees will have you repeat your level and have you pay a double fees. So there was literally nothing anyone could do about it.

I could get the fees till the day it was the deadline for the payment fee. Payment of the fee was online, so I decided to do the usual, but unfortunately network was bad. The school fees portal was not loading, the Cyber cafe man told me network was very bad and that got me panicking. I had to keep waiting hoping that network would come up, but to no avail, I became very frustrated.

I was waiting all day just for network to come up so I could pay my fees but to no avail. It was 9 Pm in the evening and the school portal was still not going through, and the the deadline for the fee payment was 12:00 am midnight. Network was congested, I thought all hope was lost, that I would be repeating that session, all my hard work gone, I laboured for nothing, I loaned some money to pay back with huge interest just for nothing.

Pixabay

The next day, the school portal was closed and there was no going back. I felt like giving up or even just dropping out, because I could not imagine that I would be repeating a year, even though my friends was consoling and urging to never give up, I could not hold it.

After I thought that all hope was lost, God helped and I heard that it was most students were also victims of this. Protest erupted and those students that falled victims was begging the school authority to reopen the portal. The school gave a deaf ear to our plea saying there is no going back, that we had all the time to pay our fees but we did it on purpose. The protest also could not solve our situation.

Many students became frustrated and threats was flying everywhere. Some students even made an attempt to assassinate the Vice Chancellor of the university. It was during this heat period, that school authority, not wanting the problem to get out of heard, had to open the school fees portal again for a one week grace period. The first day I rushed to pay and never wanted to take any issues or find out that network was congested.

That was one of the worst experience I had with network issues, and I would not pray for anyone to experience it.

Thank you all for your time.

Posted Using InLeo Alpha