The joy of college

Moin Uddin

Kathmandu

College life is amazing and interesting besides being a time to attain an education. It is one of the places where we get to specialise in our desired subject. It shapes our passion and interest into a concrete form. It helps us to build our confidence. Besides education, we get other special things. The friends we meet are going to last forever though many may say how college friends are going to last forever. In fact, there will be many students in college having various interests and backgrounds, but only those friends having similar likes and dislikes and who care for us the most will be with us forever. It’s a place to build a strong relationship not only with the friends we meet regularly but also with the teachers and other staff. Whether it is the sweeper, the cleaner or the owner of the canteen, college is an opportunity to establish intimate bonds.

College life is not only meant for studying and meeting friends but also for having fun. Friends play an important role in making the environment more fun. Once, my close friends and I had played a prank on our teacher. Later, we got punished, but we had our fun. We didn’t want to study, we were feeling bored and I came up with an idea to have fun. I called my friends and we planned to give the teacher a miscall every minute. All five of us had the teacher’s phone number. We gave miscalls time and again. Every time the teacher stepped out of the classroom to take the call, we hung up. The next day, he checked all our phone numbers in the college register and found out that we were the ones who had been irritating him. We got harsh punishment along with a warning. However, we had a fun. I am not advising you to do what we did, but we should enjoy our college life. Sometimes in class, funny questions come to our minds and we make a big thing out of them, and the whole period is kept busy by our silly questions.

College life is also that phase of our lives when we get infatuated with the opposite sex. If not controlled, the attraction can have disastrous consequences. There are also students who only come to have fun and not to study. They disturb the whole class. Many gang fights occur just to show superiority. Yes, college life is interesting, and we should explore our capabilities and build a strong relationship with everyone. The things we do become lasting memories, so let’s do great work. Let’s make our teachers proud by studying hard and attaining high marks in the board exams. Let’s make our parents proud by fulfilling their dreams of their children becoming successful persons by studying and participating in college activities. And lastly, let’s make ourselves proud by fulfilling our own dreams and desires.

Published on the newspaper The Kathmandu Post (TKP) on 12-02-2014 08:59