01/10/2023
If you’re still pursuing your undergraduate degree, please take it seriously. Work hard to have good grades.
Graduating with a 2:2 or Third Class does not guarantee that your future will be full of misfortune or that you will never make it in life. No, that’s not correct. Your destiny, your future is in the Hands of Allah alone. He shapes everyone’s destiny, whether a First Class graduate or a Pass Degree graduate.
However, have at least a 2:1 or a First Class if possible. These two classes of degree are the default filters which potential employers and scholarship awarding organizations use to pick candidates from a pool of applicants. Some even tell you right from application stage that you should have at least a 2:1.
The other day, I was conversing with a year-ahead senior of mine from Engineering school. He finished from Chemical Engineering. He told me that among all the First Class and 2:1s who graduated in their set, he cannot remember someone who is not gainfully employed or at least not pursuing a decent postgraduate education under some good scholarship scheme. He thought over it, and said, he means it. He can’t recall any. And they graduated about 10 years ago.
If in less than 10 years, virtually all the (at least) good degrees are gainfully employed or have something doing, then Allah be praised. It means a good degree is still reliable. And I think anyone who is still in school should strive to have one. It is different if you do not end up making it. At least you tried to, but destiny was not on that side. But do not have this impression of good grades don’t really mean much. They actually mean so much.
Job applications usually request you to fill in your school certificates along with your class of degree. They seldom ask you about your skills. The reason is, employers mostly hire you and then teach you the job that they need you to do for them. You learn on the job, then you scale up, you develop yourself and earn your ink in the industry.
