“We are so sorry, but you cease to be a student of this school.”

I got kicked out of school in my 2nd year of university. How did this happen?

I studied Business at an Ivy League university in Canada. My first year was really good, after which things just spiralled downward. My grades became super bad. I was distracted with some things and was doing really poorly. 

Before I got kicked out, I was on probation and didn’t tell anyone at home because I was really scared. Instead of telling people, I tried to work really hard. I found tutors, I prayed, I studied and I had so much faith. 

I checked my grades and they were bad. I felt like the ground should swallow me. How was I going to break this news to my parents in Nigeria who had been sending me thousands of dollars? I just literally wasted all their money. I was super sad and it was just so shameful. How would I tell people I was kicked out of school? My mum flew over to meet me and I prayed to God to help her understand. For some weird reason, she was sympathising with me, trying to find a plan B. 

After 2 days, I just started really praising God and dancing. I felt relieved and it felt stupid. You’re kicked out of school, you don’t know what’s next, but yet you’re praising God? I started looking for film schools. (Storytelling and 3D Animation have always been my passion). If the blessings of God make rich and add no sorrow, I knew God was going to make it easy for me.

I was going to go to Hollywood for my masters after my first degree in Business, but through this failure, God technically pushed me 3 years forward into my desired industry.

3 months later, I got admitted into a film school in Los Angeles and I started slowly finding my purpose. I graduated with a 1st class degree. If I had stayed in my previous school, studying business, I don’t think I’d have graduated with any class at all. And it was as if God just turned around my shame. 

Now I’m done with school, I have short films, music videos and have worked with people I never dreamt I’d work with, this early in my career. So overall, God has been good and I think it was all intentional.