Lagos, April 9, 2025 (NAN) Miss Isioma Nwosu, the overall best student of Lagos State University (LASU) for the 2023/2024 academic session, says she thought she had failed in life when she could not secure admission to study medicine and surgery.
Nwosu, who graduated with a cumulative grade point average of 4.93 from the department of biochemistry, made this known in her valedictory speech at the 28th convocation ceremony of LASU.
LASU awarded diplomas, degrees and certificates at the event which took place at its main campus in Ojo.
Nwosu said that she had never heard of biochemistry until LASU offered her admission on the course.
“In 2019, after graduating as the valedictorian of my secondary school, I faced a setback and had to re-write UTME.
“A valedictorian writing UTME again? It was a bitter pill to swallow. My dream was to study medicine and surgery at the University of Ibadan.
“I fell just two points below the cut-off mark. The news of my repeat spread like a wildfire in my secondary school.
“I thought I had failed in life,” she said.
Nwosu said that she equally applied for medicine and surgery at LASU but was offered biochemistry.
“This time, I made LASU my first choice and, again, aiming for medicine and surgery.
“However, I was offered biochemistry, a course I had never heard of.
“My heart broke the second time,” she said.
She said that she could not embrace the course in her first year.
