Well
I am going to discuss what you see and how you feel in an average college hostel in India. I am talking about this as far as SRM university (that's where I study), Boys hostels are concerned.
This is my daily routine and for others too (From Monday to Friday):
Wake up at 7 am
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| Corridor getting fumigated |
Get ready by 8
Reach the classroom by 8:30
Classes all depend upon the teachers. Few manage to excite the spirit to learn.
We have a break at 11:20 (10 minutes)
Then again classes (not only classes but also workshops, labs and very rarely recess)
Break for lunch from 12:15 to 1:30 (The fact that this university lies in south India makes it prone to harsh heat at noon, but weather at other times is pleasant)
And again classes till 4 pm
Done (I mean you can go home).
But what makes you a true student lies totally after that. You may listen to classes with rapt attention or while away time playing Flappy bird in the last row (Please don't do that. If the teacher likes your phone.. you will be notified that you won't get it back). I have seen many people. Here is the list what others do after 4 pm:
-->sit and chat (many types happen. Few call it discussion, few call it debate and few call it small talk, dirty talk. Talks range from Counter-strike, GTA, Doreamon, to semester exams, new projects and many other wild things I can't even imagine. I don't know what girls usually talk, If anyone knows, please comment)
-->study (your conscience tells you whether you are actually learning something new or not)
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| Undergraduate boys hostel blocks. Looks like Azkaban |
-->do homework (Here, I strongly feel there nothing worse than doing those tedious 'assignments', they just tell you to copy whats there in one notebook into a 'long and clean' format and submit it on time. Doing homework here is entirely different from studying)
-->play computer games (The worst part is that few of them are so addicted. I say addicted because they play the whole night and wake up late in the morning only to miss two or three classes. I should mention about about the attendance stuff... each course has its own attendance count and you need to have atleast 75% to write the final semester examination. Otherwise, you will get detained and have to attend extra classes in the next semester and appear for it later)
-->watch movies, soaps(few of them do...)
-->play sports (this particular university has enough space to exercise and practice your favorite sport, though I don't do that)
-->There are certain many other things that people know and do and many ought to be covered here. Forget them.
As mentioned in previous posts, I am pursuing engineering here in Electronics. I feel passionate towards this discipline. It can be described as:
" The control and manipulation of electron flow through many exotic substances, arrangements and exploiting the nature and the way it behaves to expand and experiment with new ideas, to make devices that help mankind to progress forward in development and civilization"
You can readily notice from the term 'electronics' that it all involves just electrons. This emergence of complexity from electrons, simple subatomic particles is what the greatness of this field of technology.
We seem to divert from the topic, hostels.
All the things that I have discussed above happen in weekdays. From Monday to Friday, they keep us busy with stuff like studying, writing like records and observations (take half the valuable time), etc.
College life is no different from that of school. Except that you have even more to learn and practice by having a more serious perspective and attitude for what you do.
Now let us talk about weekends, the most awaited. Few plan it meticulously. Few just sleep.
These two days, Saturday and Sunday are like money. In any college, students certainly feel guilty if weekends are not spent properly, be it any way. SRM is close to Chennai. People go to malls, beaches, cinemas and many more. I occasionally go to Ritchie street (here you get electronic parts like diodes, relays, chips, etc). Few indulge in parties while few others delve into awe-inspiring things like experiments, projects, coding and good books(Art of Electronics is one of them). The latter are people who in future change the face of technology and make us proud of our country.
On Fridays, many of us generally stay awake late into night (the thing is, we feel we worked hard whole week and deserve more free time before sleep engulfs us). The next morning starts quite late obviously and kicks off with late breakfast (called brunch). Please note that there are many things that go on in the campus. I stay confined to hostel room, so this is only a partial account of what actually happens. This university in particular has humongous student population and there's no mistake in assuming it to be a town.
Sundays generally pass by just like Saturdays (and here too, don't expect me too mention every aspect of campus life).
Conclusion: Studying and staying far away from home makes you feel responsible and trains you to manage time, money and of course your marks too. You feel free to do everything. But remember, whatever you do and think in a way decides what you will be tomorrow.
Thanks for reading!
P.S. If you belong to SRM, please comment about anything extra that usually happens around in the campus. I didn't mention everything.
