ONE WORD and a THOUSAND FEELINGS : "COLLEGE"

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   College is referred to as an higher education institution. It's the place where students learn everything. It is considered as one of the most important part of a student's life. From studying the whole year we switch to studying the night before, from going out occassionally we switch to sitting back home occassionally, from having a good percentage of attendance we switch to short attendance, from bunking classes quite rarely we switch to having GT's 3 days a week, from being dependant we turn to the responsible world of being independent and managing ourselves, we do all those things that are parents would do just to realize them that we are now college students, and many more changes accompany the fact that a student is in college.

       
   Starting from the very first day in the new environment with new faces all around and specially the feeling of a "college" , it seems all perfect as if you passed junior college(11th and 12th) for this day. Then you have a look at your class and u see people trying to be at their best, your mind starts making first impressions but hold on these are deceptive sometimes. And then you find a familiar face someone from your school or coaching, someone whom you have never talked to although and you are so so relieved. Slowly the friend circle expands and we get to know about each other, the trust starts developing and people take place in our hearts and then it doesn't seems that it's a new place an unfamiliar place. Then you get to know about the activities in college and your seniors encourage you to participate in everything and believe you me even you will try to take part in everything because as they say the first year is the only year  where  you will get time to have fun and take part in events and attend workshops to learn new things. They will tell you about many socities, cultural, technical, social, literary and many more and every event will teach you something new.

          College is a place where you get into everything that you have never tried.First experience of everything gives you the confidence of trying it again and it lets you analyse your mistakes. It provides you with a platform so good that you can overcome every fear of yours, enhance your talent, publicise it and turn things in your favour. From whereever you come, your state, language, board of education does not matter, what matters is how you carry yourself and present youself to people. College brings in your life things that you might experience for the first time from getting away with your fear to the fear of being caught, from staying away from love to falling in love, from having a limited crowd around yourself to being with people with different mentality.It's a place where you not only gain education but everything that would help you for the rest of your life. It is a place where you will find all kinds of people with all sorts of thinking and you will learn adjusting in such an environment.

        This place teaches you everything so enjoy your life to the fullest you won't get another chance to live this time. And do remember to take pictures or jot down every night about what you experienced and learned today, how many people you met because this will be the only thing that will make you memorize these golden moments. "College" contains in itself an institute that not only builds in you an engineer, a doctor or an architect but that develops the real you.


ANKITA BHARGAVA,
MSME.