UNILORIN: Four exams, no water, one outfit The week in question featured four back-to-back papers: Waves and Optics on Monday, Quantum Physics on Tuesday, Numerical Analysis on Thursday, and Electromagnetism on Friday.He described how he normally commuted from Gambari, a community outside the university, carrying clothes, soap, and a brush to last through the week, bathing in a corridor toilet and brushing his teeth at a nearby mosque.

That particular week, however, a power fault had cut off the water supply across campus entirely. With no water and no room to travel home between papers, especially not with Numerical Analysis by Prof. Taiwo looming on Thursday, both students stayed put and kept studying.

"MAT 332 by Prof. Taiwo couldn't allow us go home oo," he wrote, de"MAT 332 by Prof. Taiwo couldn't allow us go home oo," he wrote, describing solutions that ran across three pages where a single error at the start would render the entire working worthless.

By the time Electromagnetism arrived on Friday, Olu recalled that he could no longer smell his own clothes. He rushed home immediately after that final paper to bathe. "Mowa dudu," he wrote, laughing at himself in the same breath.

The results that made it worth it The semester result he shared told a different story from the suffering. Olu recorded a GPA of 4.61 and a cumulative GPA of 4.38 across 23 credit units. He earned A grades in seven of his nine courses, including Quantum Physics, Waves and Optics, and Numerical Analysis. A B in Electronics II and a D in Electromagnetism, the course he felt most confident about after the exam, were the only exceptions. He graduated from UNILORIN with a second class upper division in Physics on August 28, 2026