College life in Nigeria

[gray_ghost]

It sounds a little intense:

Frank often offers his services as a "mercenary" exam writer for enrolled students. The common practice is for an understudied student to buy two exam sheets, walk out of the exam with their own and leave their "mercenary" to write up a winning essay and turn it in. This doesn't yield lousy money; students quoted a mercenary hire fee as between 10,000 and 15,000 naira ($70-$110).

Of course these "mercenaries" are unarmed. Cult groups -- mafia-like student associations comprised mostly of politically ambitious rich kids -- are not. Last week at UST, cultists from one of the most prominent groups, the Vikings, stormed into a classroom just as students had finished writing their exam. As one student recounted, the cultists collected the exam sheets, tore them up, and then began firing their weapons wildly in the air. Students dove headfirst out the windows. Apparently the Vikings, of which Rivers State Governor Peter Odili is a prominent member, were making a protest against alleged special treatment University officials were giving their arch-rivals
"Black Ax."

Watching Das Boot on DVD now. It's a movie about this scrappy little U-boat crew in world war II. It's sweaty, claustrophobic, psychologically tense, and kind of sad. And the captain is burnt out and a tiny bit insane. Why would ANYONE in Hitler's Germany - no matter how gung-ho for der Fuhrer, volunteer to be stuffed into a little sardine can to spend hours cruising underneath a destroyer that is dropping depth charges on you?
Poor little U-boat crew (*sniff*)
Oh wait...they're Nazis....
But they're scared and lonely....
But they're Nazis.....
But.....

Anyway....it's a good flick....and right now I'm hoping they actually get to blow up a British destroyer. =) =)