Our university offered a varied range of subjects , and being an elite one in eastern India had quite a lot of students from north-east and neighbouring states. I learnt more in leisure hours while speaking to girls from various parts of my country;their background, their strengths, their dreams were all so different. Even though Bengali , English and Hindi were the most popular languages we opted for communication the best was when we danced to junk movie songs on any hostel celebration - be it freshers welcome, Holi, X-mas, New-Year , Saraswati Puja or farewell part!
We were three engineering graduates who shared the same room in our college hostel. Our equation was great! With a good sub set of books common across Mechanical, Chemical and Civil we tried to manage with minimum investment on books. More frankly we banked on class notes and suggestions from think tank who had an eye to hook on the first few ranks. They studied and we collaborated to stay on board. Realise today we operated in a real time recession model. Just focused on what we needed - Food and mild entertainment.
Our socializing communities were different - my mech roommate was the most popular face in coffee house, civil one was more on campus and I stuck to hostel. We invariably meet in dinning hall for dinner. Back from dinner we had whole campus and it's peripheral news edition being circled in the small hostel room - all day's update a few trailing from the evening before and a few which would have bloomed that very day. It could be as simple as, events in college fest or as complex as hard fights over college election. Not all led to conclusion, but prepared three of us to navigate through communication with various perspective. Text books, class tests and semester were not enough.. From 10 to 10:30 in the evening we had to cover a lot - hence the motivation to present aptly was very challenging. Balancing a speaker and a listener within you is a critical art. But it was fun actually! We coached ourselves consistently for four years for 30 mins every day ...( Did it sound like metrics, then ignore it..) , being unaware that it had become a practice for the trio.
Gyan #20 - Add fun to make process effective.
Having stayed in a hostel, you enjoyed a much broader social circle. I was never able to make any good friend outside my own department.
ReplyDeleteYep - that's true.. I learnt more in Hostel - because that was more of hands-on.
ReplyDeleteIts very true .... Hostel is a preparatory ground in ur LIFE .... gives U a good strength to take any challenge ..
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