I am not going to give you names of course - but I think majority are successfully. Anyona son was bad news. But last I heard those days - he had gone bonkers and quit work. But that guy was very brilliant...and had been brilliant all his life at Milimani primary Nairobi...and Alliance he was top student...at UON he was top.
Anyona was then MP - more a cartoon - with old datsun - that he eventually crashed into a truck and died in Uhuru highway I think. But his son was totally opposite - of George Anyona
- until he quit the bank job two years later. Maybe he got depressed with his father death? But Anyona had been arrested for most of 80s.
A few went back to UON - and are now proffesors - they beat the high school teachers there of course brain wise.
The frustration of having top brains taught by idiot:) My meru friend who was very brilliant; use to come for last one week and pass; that was in first year; the rest of the time he'd be drinking; By fourth year I had taken it a notch high; the lecturers I had discovered just hated intellectualism; they just want you to read their notes; so I used to be out working; then read 48hrs to exam; never stepped in class; and I would pass.
I would read for total of 4hrs for entire semster of work ...2hours I do what call mental structure - I scan through - creating mental structures on my head - avoiding any details - sleep - then next day - I fill in the details. This my way sure-proof way of reading...first I create the structures - and then fill in the details.
RV , where are your remarkable classmates now, are they successful im the different fields they ventured in post Universirty. Give us 5 examples.
Where as I can agree with you that UON used to pick the brightest student once in University they used to get distracted. Never used yo attend Lectures , used to club Daily in CBD from Mwendas, Tropez , Verendah , Sabina Joy name all the places now that coupled with strikes and indiscipline in addition to buying exams it used to churn out half baked graduates . The ones who you are accusing of poor work ethic. One reason you dont hear of so called Alliance boys as a success story after University.
Mind you one forms his or character at ages 19-24. So you can conclude why successful people are the ones who had discipline at that age Certainly not in U.O.N.