My LASUSOC

Lagos State University, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, located at 21, Olufemi off Nathan Street, Surulere is a university where i thought i will get all takes to be a Mass Communication Graduate, specialised in Radio and Television Broadcast but no. The course title are the same every where but the way and pattern in which we receive them are different. For instance, most campuses have jstor (jstor.com) Internet access; an online educational library, which is not visible in LASUSOC, i am not trying to bring it down but i just bump into something i never knew exists. I know we have a studio and the President has approved our Radio License but it doesn't end there. We need more than that, we can't go for an interview with our counterparts from other schools and the interviewers start wondering if we ever lived on earth.
It all started when i went for a job interview in a private company; Datasphir Solutions Limited, a company specialised in Education and ICT consultancy. i was asked some questions and believe me my face was blank and the interviewer was like are you not studying Mass Communication?, Mass Communication is not all about Radio, Television and Newspaper alone, it entails more. You need to make the Internet your home and your first teacher. what ever you look for on the Internet now, in this age and you can't get it, then it is not real.
Would you believe the owners of the firm are not IT Professionals by training, but they are both gurus in IT world. They never went to a computer school like i was doing when i met them and what inspired this message.
When i started visiting the Internet i realised i have missed more than i could ever imagine unlike my counterparts in other nations, words like blogging, computer savvy, tweeter, facebook are not strange to them rather it is their lives. Honestly ask an average Mass Communication Student in Nigeria especially those in Journalism department (photo or print), Radio and Television Broadcast what is blogging and you get a blank face like my boss got from me.
My two bosses do not believe in paper qualification especially when it's from Nigeria. They believe there are only two things that can move you forward in life and what most employers will look for in an employee; 1)Luck, if you've got any. 2) Skill which you must build on your own, with little help from others after observing your determination. If you don't have any of those two but certificate (paper) and nothing to deliver while standing on your feet then you are on your own.
One of my bosses is doing something which i believe should interest you and should be of advantage to you my fellow Mass Communication Student, try visiting www.avnn.org.ng it is a website for Mass Communication student all over the world.
I write this because i have just realised that the world is changing, no sorry has changed from pen and paper to keyboard and monitor.
so, my fellow LASUSOCites and Mass Communicators, don't wait for your lecturer to tell you to start living on the Internet, you have to go and make the best of yourselves.
MY words for you is that when you subscribe in yourself you get the most of what you want in life.