"Being a law student during a Pandemic."

“Hi, I’m Mark Diji and I am a student of the Nigerian Law School, let me start by saying this, they put me in Kano ????!  We had only spent a month in Law school when the pandemic happened. We figured we’d take a break for two months and during that time have our externships then return to campus.” 

Then, law school went radio silent for a while – then boom! Online classes were announced, we’re supposed to be students during the pandemic! We were assigned official email addresses and started receiving classes.  I can’t really say whether or not the classes were really helpful. I’d leave the others to decide that. In my estimation, they weren’t.

Two short months became nine. It was really hard to be consistent; you know being self-disciplined is so important.  The unhelpful factor was not being in the same place as other people working towards the same goal.  We were in our comfortable homes, right next to our ‘nice’ beds.  On some days, you’d realize the day went by and you didn’t join the online classes. 

Online classes ended and it went radio silence again. Then the anxiety set in, that constant fear that law school would resume any day and exams boom!

Being a law student in a pandemic is an enormous feeling.

I’d describe learning this year as being self-taught, you had to sit with those concepts yourself. This also contributed to the nervousness.

Finally, the announcement that we’d resume in January came! The comforting part is that the topics from the online class would be re-taught. We’re super pleased about that and looking forward.”