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"Hell yeah!"
Blink, Blink, Blink.
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Damn. Here we go again, an amateur writer...! Cries the cursor.
OOO- Kay!
Let’s go further.
I'll admit it. I hate SRCC. I hate my college life. I am not mad to hate without having a reason. But hey, I didn't hate SRCC all along. Once I even liked, fell in love with it. So what went wrong?
Freshman year of the college was the most stressful and yet the most unforgettable year of the college. Something that was always told by family and people that I knew. This made me anxious.
I was going through the plan of finding a college that fits me. My plan was simple.
1) Don't assume anything.
2) Ask around
3) Research, research and research. (gooooooooogling)
But my dad's plan was simple. SRCC or bust.
My admission is done. And I set on for an answering spree for "Why 2k kms all the way to study B.Com?"
Although my answer was simple “cause it's the BEST!”
Got the hostel. All set for my first day. Went out to the Co-op area and the first thing I heard was, that the college was built on burial grounds.
“Oh my God, wait, whaaat? “.
First impressions never have a second chance, do they?
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Oh I wanted to tell you more. But let’s cut short and get to the point.
It happens to the best of us. You start the semester with a game plan and every intention to avoid the mistakes of the past. Time drains such as the internet, partying, and anything else have been sorted out. Your finances are in order, you have your health, and your personal life is drama free. Then, it happens. Life, whether over time or all at once, arrives with a challenge.
Some college cultures are awesome beyond words and that was SRCC for me then. Even when I considered myself not socially proficient, this college however pushed me to, and made me learn error by error. I slowly drifted away from the original purpose for which I came to this college. I began to being popular and now I have friends from all racial backgrounds from the country. (Clearly I am not a racist. :P)
Even in school I don't always study. But when I do, I make sure my parents notice. Lol! I am not a topper, but my grades were good, so I was never anxious about my future. But in college my lifestyle was different. I slept, binge watched favourite shows and slept again, a lot this time. I went to pubs, tried drinking, and tried on weed. Life went good, like a Porn without Plot. WOW!
But then the comedy came along. I went through some classic college drama. I got betrayed, oppressed, revealed my feelings for her, got zoned, embarrassed, betrayed again, got into fights, misunderstood, felt loved, felt stupid and worthless, and effing betrayed again ( jeez I would never learn from mistakes)
These are the truths of my college life that are unconventional or at least I thought that way. My self-built college life was slowly disintegrating like responding to Thanos' snap. I lost everything and stood with nothing. Learning to move on was as difficult as my life was perfect to this point.
But I even have realized this: I don’t have to be compelled to like college for a similar reasons others like college. It is not necessary that I fancy the aspects of college that I'm “supposed” to enjoy.
My advice to fellow freshmen and high school seniors is this: throw away your romanticized guide to obligatory student living—it isn’t realistic, and it definitely isn’t mandatory.
College is meant to be three or four years of new freedoms and self-exploration—it’s okay if you are taking advantage of that independence in ways that are unconventional. It's okay to need to be alone and okay to feel lonely.
It’s okay to try and do what feels right for you, whether or not which means defraying a Saturday night party, hopping or enjoying board games or even reading a book.
Your life in college doesn't have to be compelled to work the stereotype of “college living.” it's going to take a minute to search out a way of life that makes you cheerful, however understand that each one of your classmates are looking out alongside you.
Everyone is making an attempt to live up to that authorized image of the perfect college years—but the reality is that it's solely a picture.
Nothing is ideal, not even college, which is okay.
Your college life doesn't need to be perfect, or typical, however it will need to be yours.
~ Pranesh V Kumar
(Views expressed in the reader's article section are personal and not necessarily that of team 'campus perspectives'.)
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