Category: University Diary

It Started with a Test… and Became Something I Didn’t Expect” I didn’t plan to fall for her. In fact… it wasn’t even close to my mind. She was my lecturer. A doctor. An engineer. A woman everybody respected—and feared a little. In class, she was strict. No nonsense. No excuses. If you didn’t read,…

Why I Told My Mother I Won’t Marry Above 25” The day I got my job, my mother was happy. Very happy. She kept smiling, calling relatives, telling them, “My son is now working.” I won’t lie, I was proud too. After years in school, struggling, managing life, I finally had something stable. That evening,…

Thought I Was That Girl” I entered university in my mid-twenties. I wasn’t like most girls in my class. I was older, more exposed, and I already knew what I wanted from life—or at least, I thought I did. I didn’t come to school to struggle. I didn’t come to suffer. I told myself I…

I Thought Love Was Enough” I chased her for one year and a half. Not small time. Not play. Real chasing. Real effort. I knew her from school, saw her almost every day, tried everything to get her attention. Slowly, she started noticing me. Slowly, we started talking. And before I knew it… we were…

She Came Back… But It Was Too Late” I met her in school. She was in 200 level, studying pharmacy, while I was already close to graduating. What started as something simple became something real. We got close—very close. Not just the normal kind of relationship people have on campus. This one felt different. We…