Treasure Magazine
Social Life on Campus
Introduction
Education from the origin was instituted not just to make people professionals in their areas of discipline but to affect and transform the general life of the educated into a better personality academically and socially . Unfortunately many educated people in this generation have missed the balance as they either only concentrate on the academics or purely focus on the social aspect of education . However we must note that a miss balance irrespective of its causative reasons can never be better than a balance . Practically , I shall be focusing on the social aspect of education as it relates to the various campuses in our higher institutions of learning in this article . This is because I have discovered that we have so many instructors educating us on the academics with very few emphasizing the social aspect . Ironically we have a higher population of students ignorantly focusing on the socials when compared to the academics hence the social imbalances in the society of today .
What is social life ?
From a chat with some people I was made to understand that the concept of social life means different things to different people . After a cognitive analysis I was able to deduce that social life is primarily centered on relationships . Breaking it down for better understanding we will have “ social ” and “ life ”. So what ’ s social and what ’ s life ? The English dictionary termed “ social ” as it pertains to people to be an activity in which people meet each other for pleasure . It also defines “ life ” in this context as the experiences or activities that are typical of all people ’ s existence . Basically social life consists of people , experiences , pleasure and existence . Summarizing everything I would say social life is the catalogue of all the typical experiences people carry out in the course of their existence with the sole aim of pleasure . It includes activities like friendship , fellowship , mentorship , leadership and relationships in general . You may claim to be too serious and ask why “ pleasure ”, but let me tell you , one of the basic reasons why you do everything and anything is pleasure . It ’ s actually the satisfaction you derive from your actions .
Why discuss social Life
Perhaps you may be wondering why all these stories about social life ? It ’ s simple , social life on campuses has become a mess especially in this generation . It is either over emphasized or never experienced at all . People no longer make friends ; it ’ s now all about the human greed of me and me alone . To crown it up you find them posing excuses like “ first thing first ooooo ” “ I know what brought me to school ” and a whole lot of other stories that are not even logically appropriate . I once heard of a principal who became a commissioner of Agriculture during the military era all because of the relationship he built with the then military governor back in their school days . What am I saying in essence Academics alone is limited if you must ever become somebody in this generation . We all at some point will have need for each other so you can
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