The end is almost there. From the first step in this haunted house (oh it felt like one, initially) to the last few moments in this amazing place, we’ve been everywhere. We’ve tried to capture every moment and the more pictures we take, the lesser they seem. Like every collegian, we’re trying to sum up everything we can to take away whatever we can with us. Few days and we’ll be departing to lead our own lives somewhere, some place far. Oh wait, too sentimental did I get?
College life becomes the most important part of our journey or that’s what I’ve observed. There’s school and then college. And then Post Graduation, Masters, PhD or directly jumping on to marriage! But these three years, I’ve learnt so much more than those 14 years of schooling. And my very weird observation has compelled me to jot it down. So here I go, putting down the observations of a Bkmiba Collegian!
1. Attendance was a strong weapon.
On the day of orientation itself, we were given a stern warning to attend lectures. Not just that, 80% attendance compulsion to give exams. And then, when some of us (oh I was among them) couldn’t make it, parents were informed and the repercussions and melodrama forced us to attend lectures. But whatever we learnt was indeed outside lectures! I mean interacting with professors and seniors, events and stuff.
2. Breaking the rules also made us follow them.
So this might sound a little ironic to you but this is what happened. As freshmen, we sure had fun in breaking the rules and I was one rule-breaking kid. I bunked college and in the first month my attendance was a low 45%. Till the mid of first year, I did all the wrongs and suddenly realized, it’s tougher to follow the rules than to break them. And then, some spark of light pulled me to join EMC (It’s a pretty cool thing in my college to be an EMC member. You get to be a volunteer in events, decorate the venue, work hard and have all the fun. The biggest perk we’ve is that we enjoy all the events, from scratch till the end!) Therefore, the fact that I broke them helped me understand its importance. (Of course, there’s an implied conditions apply on this one.)
3. We stayed back in college for more number of hours than home or PG.
Forget bunking and finishing college before 3pm, we stayed here for more hours than at home. Coming here early morning and staying up till late before submissions, events and exams. We’ve done it all. Food was the only source to keep us up and there you could see us next morning, all energized zombie-looking people, and still attending lectures.
4. We were somehow more attached to our juniors and seniors.
Our super seniors and seniors stayed with us for a year or two and the same applied with the junior batches. We spent the entire three years with our own batch but this was an observation. Somehow, we had more affinity towards seniors or juniors. When it was about seeking guidance, we would resort to our seniors and while guiding someone, our juniors would seek us. And even with little things, our seniors taught us a lot more. We sure owe them for we are their reflections. And exchanging roles with the juniors also taught us many things.
5. Professors are the best guides.
I might seem a teacher’s pet to you but here, you gotta love the professors! You could go to them if you wish to share something; you could attend their lectures and might as well be whiling over a cup of tea/coffee with them after lectures. A moment they might scream at you to teach you something and the next, they’ll be all cool like nothing happened. Even if you have been someone who is scared to approach professors, this place is going to help you let go all those fears. Lectures and studies were still a compulsion but even when we saw the alumni members meet our professors with so much love in their eyes, *aww* even I went speechless.
6. College hook-ups might result in marriage.
Lol. Now that might be a shock for some of you. But that’s one uncanny observation I had right here. And that’s a trend I was told follows here. Most of the people coupled here, ended up getting married. Aww and isn’t that cute? To support this, some of our professors got married to their classmates and they even told us giggling away that this trend has been following. Let’s see which couples we get to see getting married in the coming years.
7. Winning isn’t everything.
The best thing, the most important lesson I learnt in the past three years is that winning isn’t everything. In the quest of life, you come across failures more often than success. You might give your best shot but still lose. And sometimes, in the want of success, you might end up losing everything else. Like the movie Student of the year, we’ve our own version called Capstone right here. For that one trophy, I saw people lose bigger things; I saw them break years of friendship and ruining relationships. I’ve heard it from the greatest people and they said it right, “What’s success if you have no one to share it with?” Quoting KB, “It is okay even if you lose, what’s important is that you stay together!” So let’s hope we end this journey together, with the ones we started with.
8. You’ll discover something new about you, you never knew before.
Sportspersons, musicians, artists, nerds, dancers, models! We’ve all had them in our college. But some of us discovered those talents, right here in this building. And luckily, I was one of them. My love for writing was discovered right here and I’ve been writing ever since. We sure turn out to be very different people than what we were, just three years back.
9. You make the best of friends, only in School and College.
I cannot deny that statement. I mean it’s not that you never make friends after college but you get to pick the best ones right here. Till the third year, I always felt it was just school friends who stayed. But then, could I be more wrong? College friends, become your second family. You eat together, fight with them and cry to them. And even when everything goes wrong, you know in the end you’ll go back to them. I know I befriended the most amazing people here and the ones I didn’t be friends with, were the lessons I learnt.
I hope I helped you recollect a few moments and if you are a senior reading this right now, remember there are just four months to go. So if you were lost in the crowd, make sure you make the most of your college life in the coming days. There are some things that are lost with wind and like sand slipping from our hands, we can’t catch it however hard we try. These are your days, make sure you make the most of these moments before they become a lost memory. Feel free to share your favourite memory! :)
