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Studying Electrical Engineering in Nigeria: Challenges & Job Opportunities
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Jun 25, 2025
Ever wondered what it's like to pursue an Electrical Engineering degree in Nigeria? In this video, I sit down with [Student’s Name], a passionate Electrical Engineering student, to explore their journey, experiences, and challenges in this demanding yet rewarding field. 📚 What you'll learn: * Why they chose Electrical Engineering * A typical day in the life of an engineering student * The highs and lows of studying in a Nigerian university * Tips for aspiring engineers * And much more! 🔌 Whether you're considering studying engineering, curious about the Nigerian education system, or just love hearing inspiring stories, this interview has something for you. 💬 Let us know in the comments: What part of the student’s story inspired you the most? 👍 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more videos on education, career insights, and inspiring stories from across Nigeria. 📲 Follow me for updates and behind-the-scenes content. * Facebook - https://facebook.com/groups/studentship/ * Twitter - https://twitter.com/olarewajub * Instagram - https://instagram.com/lion_obo
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good morning good morning good morning
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uh what's the name for stany okay nice
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to meet you staling so what department
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are you in I'm in electrical electronics
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electric Department engineering that is
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like elect elect now electrical
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engineering okay okay so what is uh
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electrical engineering as a course what
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is it all about well it's um mostly
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about like you know electricity get how
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to make use of electricity to to like
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kind of meet our daytoday needs you
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understand so it doesn't have to be that
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advanced just like meeting your
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day-to-day needs with electricity okay
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that's basically what it is okay because
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most most students when they apply for
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leg they think the C is about you know
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repairing appliances is it more than
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that or it's more than that you know you
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know that um there's a difference
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between electrical engineer and an
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electrician in fact it's not all about
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um repairing something it's mostly about
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innovation you get being Innovative
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being creative you understand so as an
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engineer you must be creative you must
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be Innovative you understand you must
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you must be able to face challenge yeah
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you understand so that's just it and you
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know the principle of what you are yes
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you know you know you know the principle
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you know you have a a background
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knowledge a foundation knowledge you
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understand you have to go deep because
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if you don't if you don't go deep you
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you just be a poly Technic person you
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understand there's a differ between
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someone that came out from University
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and some one that came out from a PO
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Technic a techn yeah a technician so
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that that just it so how many years is
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electrical engineering at the university
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is 5 years 5 years yeah 5 years so in
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that 5 years what was like the breakdown
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when do you guys go for it and okay okay
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now um when you enter your first year
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you will do the same thing you might you
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might begin to do the same courses with
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your with every other person that came
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into that that Year One so you are
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someone that is in biology might be
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doing the same thing you get the same
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CES so you know don't like you know most
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people when they come into engineering
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they think that they just start doing
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stuff and repairing stuff or creating
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that's not it you first of all they're
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going to put you through kind of um like
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the basics you get you even do English
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so if you don't know English you that
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that would be a problem a very big
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problem you see that uh most people now
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they want to do engineering but then
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little cses will not be holding them
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back so they'll be having carryover in
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something like English and all those
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kind of things so it's necessary that
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you have you have knowledge in all those
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things all those English all those basic
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courses so don't just throw them away so
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that is in your year one then when you
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come to your year two even though you're
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in electrical engineer you'll be doing
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courses from civil engineering okay and
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mechanical engineering so it's tough
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It's stough because when when you when
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you begin to you know um come across
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courses like um flute mechanic
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that's from chemical engineering you now
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know that you have to pass it you have
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to pass it nothing like I'm in I have to
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there's nothing like that you have to
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pass it by any means it's Nigerian by
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any means you have to pass it so then I
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think in your your year three that you
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not studing your your course like you
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specialize in electric car understand so
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you not studing courses like um SEC
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Theory where you where you begin to
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apply those principles like electric
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principles electrical principles you
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understand so now your your 48 that is
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when you not go for
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it yeah that is when you not to go for
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that is your first semester you go for
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okay M then no no no your first semester
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you you you not go for you just do your
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normal 4 leveles then second year no
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second semester 400 level yeah you go
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for your it understand that is the it is
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is something else so that's where you
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have to work okay like yeah pral
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knowledge if the person that is not live
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soft life
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survive yeah when I my I mean my
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complexion changed don't be SM you have
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to really do the work so like the first
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day like this you start the work
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immediately no be like what kind of
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organization what organization well I
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did my own in um a Solar Company okay
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that's based in solar even camera they
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also does camera okay okay and stuff
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like that but some of my colleagues
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they did their own incn which is like
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transmission company n so it just
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depends on what you want to do when you
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leave school like you need skills now
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you need soft skills to be able to
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survive don't be say you come out now
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you go see work immediately you need to
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start from somewhere so that is where
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your it will not help you because you
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already have something a skill that can
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just yeah to expose you so you know now
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that is it say then 500 level is
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mostly um mostly kind of um how your
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relationship with your lecturers and all
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that
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it's you don't really have to work like
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study that time you already like got a
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full it's mostly about how your
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relationship with your lecturer and your
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fellow student because it's your project
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now no only you go do your project now
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you have to relate with your your your
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kind of your colleagues your colleagues
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yeah collab you need to collabor with
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your colleagues and your lecturers and
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your supervisors that's that you pass in
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your 500 level
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that's okay you know electrical
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engineering just like every other
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engineering courses involves mathematics
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physics now there are some students that
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in secondary school they are let's say
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they average in math the average in
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physics is it possible for these
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students to study elect electrical
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engineering actually do
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well oh M you know engineering is all
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about mathematics okay so now when you
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when you enter your 100 level you have
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to do ma your TR level you still have to
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do ma your TR level you still have to do
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ma where you drop is you 4 level like I
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mean mass as a c not like M yeah not
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General M I'm talking about um some what
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do they call it um Advanced Mass but it
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has a particular name okay but it's just
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all about mass mass mass I mean you have
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to really know Mass okay to be able to
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pass because and those Mass those Mass C
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is a higher credit load like three four
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M which means if you faade them it's
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going to bring down your GP M so you
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have to do everything possible to pass
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down mathematics so you have to be very
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good in math you understand so that's
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the thing math is very important but is
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it possible that let's say someone that
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average and gets to investig but the
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person has the right determination the
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person can actually like skate through
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is it possible like that it's no it's
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not possible you you need to like know
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Mass you need to know Mass very well you
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need to be very good in Mass okay like
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you just need to love MK okay you
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understand you just need to you don't
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have to be aage in this engineering
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thing you might be average in drawing
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because we we we did drawing too we did
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drawing like mean no something like um
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how do you put it technical drawing you
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have to draw me I'm not that good in
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drawing but with average knowledge in
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drawing you can pass but in Mass you you
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have to know you need you need strong
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foundation in Mass to pass okay to be
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able to pass those mathematics courses
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okay so generally how will you say uh
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electrical engineering how demanding is
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a c is it a c that allows you to like do
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other side H or you like it takes all
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your time as a
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student well engineering you know
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engineering engineering is something
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that is demanding okay it's very
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demanding um because the lecturers they
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want you to the lecturers want you to do
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something that is um kind of you have to
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do it on your own okay like they can
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give you assignments now that normally
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they can't there's no Department that
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used to give that kind of assignment but
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they'll give you engineering just to
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test your ability to withand pressure
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under like when they give you time
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limits for this thing how do you think
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how do you think outside the box get
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it's all about thinking outside the box
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they won give you an assignment that you
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would just just do and just come out to
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me yeah they make it to like think how
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do I do this thing that is not that it's
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not necessarily made our date but to be
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able to meet with the time the time
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limit you understand so it's very
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demanding especially the assignment they
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can give you an assignment that's like
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maybe assignment that is going to be
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like like solving something that will fo
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a an 80 leaves not I'm telling you no no
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it's not it's not one question like many
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many questions and tell you to submit it
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the next day which means you not sleep
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that night it's not possible you can't
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sleep there some days I did assignment
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throughout the night and I came the next
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morning I don't sleep just my eye I had
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to submit it wow if you don't like
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engineering is very tough it's really
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tough It's demanding so if you want to
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if you want to go for it you have to be
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be prepared and determined okay okay
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yeah so you when you when I ask about uh
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the when you're talking about the it so
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you went to a solar like company and
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some of your colleagues they went to TCN
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so what are the opportunities that are
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available
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for graduates of this course like when
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you graduate you are the places possible
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places you can work as a graduate okay
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um number one you can you can you can
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work in NEPA okay can work in you know
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when it comes to power you know um
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electrical it has different sectors so
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there is power sector so when it comes
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to power under power there's like three
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three sectors inside that power there is
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transmission there's distribution
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there's um generation okay the
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generation is what we called jko then
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the distribution is disco disco yeah so
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then the transmission is like it's t or
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something okay so um when it comes to
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power power is really broad you
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understand so if you want to work in
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power you can actually see work very
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fast m yeah but I don't know for the pay
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the pay might be low okay but the job is
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there okay so the job so people should
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not just think that only only limited to
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NEPA NEPA is just like the transmission
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okay so there's also there's also the
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generation side where they generate the
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electricity so there's also job
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opportunity there there's also in
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transmission which is NEPA okay then
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they will not have eedc which is under
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distribution so that is all so people
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don't really know much about that power
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sector but it's really deep and very
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broad wow wow so there's opportunities
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there a lot then we also have the maybe
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I don't know you know engineer is all
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about um
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independent mindset you get so you can
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actually start up your own business okay
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like you can be be a solar installer a
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solar installer a camera installer and
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be making your money and you can also go
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into building wiring like wiring of
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building when after they build they
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building finish you can wear it you can
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we it and make your money you understand
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so but you know now the way the country
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is not everybody's building house
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nowadays so it really has season it has
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season that that that kind of work pays
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but when it comes to solar solar is
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something that pays always like
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everybody getting into everybody getting
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into green energy now because you know
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Nea is doing now now light is not
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constant So within 10 to like from like
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in the gap of like 10 years 20 years
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there still be more solar like even in
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the whole country now I'm not sure about
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10% have actually gotten into this solar
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energy they've not really but you know
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Nea they messing up day by day and
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everybody's trying to get trying to get
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into okay um so I want to ask why did
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you decide to study electrical
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engineering um electrical engineering is
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my kind of like something I've been
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dreaming of from Secondary School okay
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so um it's it's like my dad is an
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engineer okay he's a civil engineer so
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our family is just like mostly
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engineering so it's not like my dad made
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me do it to but I just feel like my dad
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inspired me sh he's someone that anytime
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something around the house PO he does it
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even even electrical stuff he does all
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of them so me I thought that what if I
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do it I I'll become Master now like I do
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everything sharp sharp so I also that
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even as a civil engineer you knew all
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these things what if I now do the do it
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in school like the electric in school
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what will I now be doing you get so it
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means that I can can go far so that the
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thing all interesting interesting so
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thank you very much so the last question
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is what advice do you have for someone
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that wants to study this course at the
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University um my advice is that uh just
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start start with don't don't just think
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about entering okay think about you know
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this course is 5 pH course so don't look
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at other people and be like because
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others mostly most courses in this
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University is 4 years is 5 years so just
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see yourself in where where you'll be
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next for in next 5 years you understand
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so don't look at your mate and be like
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okay um this one is doing this one this
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one has entered or this one so as engine
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is kind of a a lone a lonely Journey you
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understand because your mes they
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graduating after 4 years but you gr
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after 5 years so because I know my
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friend that me and him was was in first
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together host so the guy left and I'm
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the one understand so just like you just
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have to be tough so um my advice is that
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just just don't just um look at the the
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present you get so no Mass no Mass like
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really solve MK because you will need it
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you will need it for a long time get for
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a long time so because if you don't know
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much you can't pass you can't you can't
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pass okay you have issues having
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carryover is not a nice thing okay so
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that just it there's this I just
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remember something there's this
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misconception that engineering boys like
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actually like bad boys they un serious
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like is
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he you know what I'm talking about you
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know what I say I know what um just that
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that thing is just like um should I see
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misconception it's kind of a
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misconception but at the same time it's
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still it's true okay but it doesn't mean
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that we are CAU but we not we not cut
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but just that due to the fact that most
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departments they on uniforms
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we so every day we can dress any we like
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it's not
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like like
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but so why they say that we are we are
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kind of ruged because of our dressing
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okay you know other department wear
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uniform some wear white and black some
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we blue and black but we we don't have a
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dress code we justar anything we like
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and come to school so that alone gives
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us the freedom that we can do anything
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we like but can anything like you you
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any you collect understand so that
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always give them the sense that they can
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do what they like but when you ENT 500
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level you know that you have to calm
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down because this is the time when you
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have to approach your lecturers okay
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approach them you can't you can't dress
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any how to meet your lecturer you can't
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you be like they just push you from the
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office so
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that's all the thing you guys are
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majorly like guys now yeah we are
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majorly guys we are majorly guys any
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girl you see for engineering a I don't
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know he's he's a tough girl he's a tough
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girl sh but engineering is is a like
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it's mostly guys it's not a GU something
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it's not a GU course but it's mostly
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guys you see there because of the the
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nature of the
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demanding and not every girl want to
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stay in school for 5 years but as a guy
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you know what you want now you know what
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you want yeah so you can you can do it 5
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Fe is nothing yeah thank you very much
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thank you very much really appreciate uh
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that would be all for now okay okay all
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right
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