Being a graduate does not mean that one is competent in all fields of academics. This is the wrong perception that many people have about university graduates; they tend to believe that a graduate can handle all sorts of academic problems. One day a young man who was wanting to attend university approached me to assist him in writing admission essay. As he wanted to be admitted in one of the renowned universities in the country I knew it was necessary that his admission essay be down with excellence. He seemed to be enjoying being a village champion, as far as academic performance was concerned. I told him that writing admission essay would be challenging for me. The last time I wrote an admission essay was ten years ago, when I was joining a university. He got annoyed, and asked me what kind of a graduate was I if I was unable to write an admission essay. I told him politely that I did engineering, never learned how to write admission essays, because not relevant to my area of professionalism. He said that I was incompetent, and there is no graduate who finds should find a challenge in writing admission essay. I got worked up ,and I was about to hit him, up when I received a phone call to remind me that I was to attend a meeting in the next hour or two. As I went back to my house I thought about the young man’s attitude towards graduates, and I felt sorry for him, because I was sure he wouldn’t be the all round student he wanted to be.


