VARSITY LIFE

By Mr. Acknowledge Mawere

STUDENTS LET'S BE AMBULANCE DRIVERS

What is an ambulance driver? By disintegrating the question into two parts, the outcomes are
ambulance and driver. To begin with, the driver which is a common word in which even a
grade two pupil can explain that it is someone in control of or operates the movement of a
vehicle. Secondly, an ambulance is a specialized vehicle used to transport sick or injured
people to a medical treatment facility. Therefore by assembling the two parts, we will get a
solid definition that an ambulance driver is a frequently trained paramedic or an emergency
medical technical driver who drives a transport emergently to carry sick people to a medical
facility. Without any effort added, everyone can observe that this is not an easy work to
accomplish and it's a far cry from an ordinary driver like those so-called mushikashika
drivers. The job automatically demands some special personal qualities. One most crucial
personal quality which overrides all the qualities of an ambulance driver is being
conscientious and this is what I'm concerned about this article.

Concerning the above-given information, a University student must undoubtfully put

himself/herself in the position of an ambulance driver where the conscientious trait should be
the most always-worn bulletproof for self-protection against the day-day traps at a tertiary
institution. Many students end up fall in mud on a sunny day not because they don't know
what is wrong or bad but only due to lack of conscientiousness. What is conscientious? How
does it affect a student? What are the results of being unconscientiously? Let's discuss all
these questions.

Conscientious is the individual differences in the propensity to follow socially prescribed

norms for impulse control, to be goal-directed, painful, able to delay gratification and to
follow norms and rules. (Roberts, Jackson, Fayard, Edmonds, Meints, 2009). Simply the term
can be explained as a personal capability of being efficient and organized as opposed to easy-
going and disorderly. It also implies the matter of sticking to a goal, what exactly one is
intended to do in a motive to do a task well and to take obligations to others seriously.

Inevitably, conscientiousness is an intrinsic quality of a university student. From the Journal

of Research in Personality 44 (2010) 501-511 by a combination of different authors it is said
that conscientiousness promotes orderliness, impulse control, reliability, and
conventionality. For orderliness, it is clear that those travel who without direction will never
get lost, for they don't know where they are going. But those who walk in righteousness will
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reach their destination. Best of both worlds seems to be for the one with this meticulous trait
of character. Conscientious people, they don't even embark themselves in a rat race which has
no starting point and winning line. They have order in their minds, they are always aware of
why they are at a certain place, focuses on exactly what they are expected to do. As a student,
you must keep in mind why your father sold his beloved oxen Manyanga for you to be at that
campus. He did so because his will is to see you one day at a top position and at the drop of
his hat to say that, "he is my son/daughter." Does your daily-beaten and chased vendor
mother, with her all pain she goes through to source out your semester fees, knows that you
are no longer called by the name she gave you but as Slay Queen, Slay King or Mr. Money
and any other names. You totally lost your mind behind what you came for at the so-called
campus. You came to study, but you are now called slay queen why? Because you have got
loose conscientiousness personality hence you lost all the reasons for being at UZ, MSU,
NUST or any other University. Please, students, let's be ambulance drivers. In Shona, they
have a saying that, 'fambira chimwe sadriver weambulance'.

It's better to die as a Shaygetz in Jews than to be credulous. Let them do what they do, and
you do what you should do. Obduracy is something associated with a conscientious person.
Don't get off your rocker, to be tempted to do whatever against your will. It's worthy to have
no friends than engaging yourself with bad people. Remember you were alone when you left
the dusty streets of your home ground waving your hand to your beloved sisters and brothers
saying that you are going to a tertiary institution for a BSc or Hons Degree. Look at yourself,
are you still in a mood for the BSc. Take a survey around you, are you surrounded by the
tools to accomplish your task. Who is next to you, what are you doing, what's in your hands
and where are you at a certain time? In a night club, with your hooligans, in a new model
Range Rover with a Sugar daddy, in a friend's room taking different sorts of drugs one
cigarette after another. Take a moment and remind yourself that you parked a vehicle at a bar
with a sick patient. Stop digging a grave for your career and future. One wise man once
quoted that, "surround yourself with nine fools and you will be the tenth." hence know who is
and not to play with. Please, students, let's be ambulance drivers.

Last but not least, self-efficacy is mostly gained conscientiously where every student needs to
understand individual differences in academic performances to critically meet the needs of
today's diverse student population. A university student must be seen by his/her cognitive
ability i.e. general mental capability involving, problem-solving, planning, abstract thinking,
complex idea comprehension and leading from experience (Gottfredson, 1997). The students
must be glad to see the back of imprudence. Take your time before every action you are
going to take, it's said that curiosity once killed the cat. To prevent the barking up of the
wrong tree, please, students, let's be ambulance drivers.

Let's be ambulance drivers, stop all these so-called idiosyncrasies and focus on why we are at
the campus. Be strong against those enticing career distracters. Let's join hands as students to
stop bad reports about us University students such as the hullabaloo over the issues of sex
tapes. Sex tapes are ubiquitous. They are here and there reportedly occurs in all universities
despite others being at the forefront of the game. We should remember that our institutions
are not the por** hubs. Let us not extrapolate or exaggerate the freedom of a tertiary student.
Don't be cattywampus by unnecessary easy traps. As an individual student, you need to be
strong enough and mind open because building self-esteem is like falling in love with a
beautiful woman, you watch your friends but go it alone. No one can be hinder for you to
achieve your goals. The rate of your success is only limited by the scope of your dedication
and the depth of your sacrifice. Stay humble, focused and conscientious so that relatives and
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friends will sing the Ebenezer song by Rev T. T Chivaviro and team, unlike Bob Nyabinde's
Chabuda Hapana song.

Finally, with all the above information the ball is now on the reader's court because the horse
can be taken to the river but not even merely forced to drink. Hence the piano sound is in
your ears, dances it or not is up to you. With much appreciation for taking the time to read,
Elvis has left the building.

STAY SAFE FROM THE CORONA VIRUS...WASH YOUR HANDS WITH SOAP OR
ALCOHOL, USE SANITIZERS, 1 METRE SOCIAL DISTANCING, STAY INDOORS.
LET'S ABIDE THE PRECAUTIONS FROM OUR HEALTH PRACTITIONERS; GUYS
COVID-19 IS NOT A JOKE.

MR CLIFFS AKA ROYALKILLOE