TK INTERVIEWS OYINDAMOLA OMOTUYI, BEST GRADUATING STUDENT EVER IN UNILAG

Miss Oyindamola Omotuyi, the Best Graduating Student from Systems Engineering explains in details how she made it in an interview with TK. Although we have another person graduating with a 5.0 CGPA, Miss Bankole Taiwo from the department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Oyindamola stands out having a 5.0 SGPA  in ten(10) semesters, i.e  5 sessions. This young lady served as Vice President, Academic Secretary, Asst. Drama Cordinator, yet graduates with 5.0CGPA.

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TK- Can you introduce yourself?

Oyinda- My name is Oyindamola Ajoke Omotuyi, a graduate of Systems Engineering from Ondo State, am just simple, godly and in for God.

Tk- Like is IN FOR GOD your motto or drive?

Oyinda- yes, it’s my drive.

(cuts, my dad is calling me)

Tk- How do you feel graduating as the BGS?

Oyinda – Let me just say I am happy, I am glad about it, at least, people are happy and again I kind of expected it probably from year 4.

Tk- So from year 4, you were certain nothing can happen again as in a drop?

Oyinda-The thing is that I don’t rely on my ability but I just trusted God that He would perfect what He had begun, more so, I am not really an academic student, I was basically more of a normal student because I didn’t really have much time in my year 5 for school work because of Church but then I was just rest assured that God would do the best, I was not really seeking for a 5.0 like that but I was just so certain that anything I come out with is God’s will whether 5.0 or less.

TK- From year 1, was 5.0 really your pursuit?

Oyinda- I really didn’t know what 5.0 was in year1, basically all I knew was a first class, I was informed at the Overcomers Award at RCF when I was rewarded for my excellent result in year 1 and that stirred an awareness of the need for excellent performance.

TK- How did you maintain the consistency with the 5.0 SGPA despite pressures and different challenges?

Oyinda- The thing is understanding what God’s word says about academics actually helped me, the Bible says in 1 John3:2, I wish about all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers, someone said, It is not that God doesn’t want his children to be rich, but he doesn’t want us to be covetous, It is not that God doesn’t want his children to have 5.0 but  the most important thing is our heart condition towards excellence so that it would not sway our hearts away. It is actually ministrations on faith that kept me going because obviously there is always a semester where things doesn’t go right but what sustained me was faith, it wasn’t ability, although I always do something at the beginning of every semester, I write down my course outline, meet my predecessors to get details concerning any course I want to do, the course lecturers, and what is needed of me because I don’t like just reading anything and everything, because I don’t like going to library like that, it’s not really about all those things anyway, but as God give me guidance, every semester was a new semester, new leading and dealing of God, it was simple faith in God that kept pushing me forward.

TK- What do you have to say of those who are religious like yourself but still having academic deficiencies? Is it that they lack faith?

Oyinda- One thing is this, in getting and receiving from God, God is always perfect, the problem is the receiving end, concerning the area of academics, note that your CGPA doesn’t totally define you but really we would need wisdom from God to handle some complications.

Well, as a matter of fact, the big deal is about God’s will being done, I told some of my friends that although I am finishing with 5.0 CGPA but if I have done it outside God, I would have been of all men the most miserable, because it is not done out of faith and it doesn’t bring life, for example you have a material and you are hoarding it, what makes you do that and keep that helpful material to only yourself is because your soul is so engrossed in self-centredness, the reason for every achievement is for Salvation not just mere accomplishment.

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