Student Life

I am told that students here are very serious about their studies. And from what I can tell they certainly are. In this week before university started, both my roommates have spent much of their time sitting around the room studying. I think they have spent more time studying in the past week than I did in the past two years.

But they like to hang out too. I was at Femi's hostel room and throughout a four hour stretch there must have been 30 people hanging out in the room at one time or another. Mostly boys though. So there was a lot of communal feeding. If someone brings in a pot of food there is soon 8 people eating out of it.

Most of the students here live in hostels, either on or off campus. Campus has massive numbers of hostels for students to live in. Also, all the lecturing staff live on campus. They have houses and apartments reserved for them. Each lecturer also has some "boys quarters" separate from the main house which is let out to students. That is what I will be soon moving into.