ADVANTAGES
1) You develop leadership and management skills: Beign a class rep requires alot of responsibilities, You're charged with the onus of ensuring that assignments are submitted, providing Continous assessments lists, fixing project works and all. This helps to develop your leadership qualities, it bulids self confidence and prepares you for herculean tasks in future.
2) It builds you to become a perfect accountant: Yes, very true! As a class rep, you will be in charge of students money running into hundreds of thousands, especially when there's an excursion coming up and about 100 students are to pay N4000 each. You become cautious when handling such money because the last thing you'd want is to be blacklisted by your HOD and the general students for misappropriation of funds.
3) You earn trust and respect: The seat of the class rep is a very sensitive position, and this makes you to earn the trust students. Yes, students will leave you with thier 6 credit unit assignments and projects without giving the idea a second thought, "Honestly, That's some Real trust there".
You also earn respect from fellow students.
4) You learn to become a great multitasker: No matter the task, wether it is to arrange for an impromptu meeting or to provide reliable information to your department or to report to a lecturer's office immediately, as a class rep, you'll learn to do it all at a time.
DISADVANTAGES
1) It is stressful: The stress can gradually take a toll on you, Especially when your department is large, and your assistant class rep is not as serious as you are. In summary, The larger your department, the more the stress. And if you cant handle it properly, your grades will feel the heat. Funny.
2) You will get to miss important classes: as a class rep, your primary duty is to run around while classes are going on. LOL. believe me, if you miss a test, no one will say "come and re-write the test because you're the class rep". So sad.
3) You will be at the receiving end of insults and hate: get ready to receive as many insults from fellow students as possible. This is inevitable. For example; when your fellow course mate is contesting for a position in the SUG and you fail to support his campaign. If he looses, he will come for your head.
Written by KPhantom
Oboi...... I prefer 2 be an sug president oh
ReplyDeleteWaste of cyberspace. Raise your hands if you want to be a course rep? No one?... Yes! No one!
ReplyDeleteBeing a class captain in primary and secondary schools was probably cool, but that shit doesn't fly in the university. All you to do is sleep with desperate girls and graduate with 3rd class or 4th class, if it exists.