news details |
|
|
| Before We Graduate, Let Us Live Our Student Life | | | Mahi Charak
Whenever we talk about student life, the first things that usually come to mind are classes, examinations, assignments and results. But as a student, I have slowly realised that student life is much bigger than all of these things.
It is a journey that teaches us how to live.
Think about the first day of school. Almost every child enters the school with tears, holding on to a parent, unsure about this new place. But slowly, that same school becomes a second home. We learn to sit with others, make friends, share things, talk to people and adjust ourselves to different situations.
For someone who is naturally quiet or prefers to stay alone, school becomes a place where interaction slowly becomes a part of life. We learn to open up. We learn how to behave with different people, how to understand others and how to become a little more confident.
And somewhere in between the morning assemblies, lunch breaks, classroom conversations, school functions and examinations, we grow up.
School is perhaps the first phase of student life where we live a large part of our childhood. We learn many things that are not written in our textbooks. We learn how to make friends, how to be happy with small things, how to achieve something after trying, how to handle failure and how to stand up again.
Most importantly, we begin to understand the world around us.
Teachers become an important part of this journey. Sometimes, we may not realise the importance of their guidance at that particular moment, but their words often stay with us for years. They give us direction when we are still trying to understand what we want to do in life.
Then comes college.
College feels like another chapter altogether. We are a little older, a little more independent and slowly moving towards adulthood. Along with studies, we begin to understand relationships and friendships in a different way.
The friends we make in college become a part of our everyday lives. We share notes, attend classes together, make plans, laugh over the smallest things, help each other during diffcult days and create memories without even realising that one day these ordinary moments will become special.
College brings us one step closer to our dreams, but it also teaches us the importance of the people we meet along the way.
And then comes the Master’s or university phase.
This is where I feel student life becomes a little different.At this stage, we become more serious about our careers. We start thinking about jobs, future plans, responsibilities and the life waiting for us outside the university. There is a constant feeling that we should achieve something and make the most of our time.
But sometimes, in thinking so much about tomorrow, we forget to live today.
I am currently pursuing my Master’s at the Central University of Jammu, and as my degree slowly moves towards its final phase, I have started looking at student life differently.
I often think about what will happen after we graduate. The people we meet every day will eventually become busy with their own lives. Some will move to different cities. Some will begin their careers. Some will get married and start families.
Everyone will have their own dreams to chase.
And maybe one day, meeting all our batchmates together will become diffcult.
This thought has made me realise how valuable the present moment actually is.
The classroom that sometimes feels ordinary today may become a memory tomorrow. The friend sitting beside us may one day be someone we only talk to occasionally. The small conversations before or after class, the laughter, the last- minute assignments, the college events and even the complaints about classes may become the memories we miss the most.
This is why I feel that being serious about our career is important, but being serious about our career should not mean forgetting that we are still students.
We should study. We should work towards our goals. We should prepare for our future. But we should also laugh, make friends, attend events, take pictures, have conversations, make mistakes and create memories.
Because once this phase ends, we may not get the same version of it back.
For me, Central University of Jammu has given me more than a degree. Through my department, Mass Communication and New Media, I found a small family of my own. My batchmates, professors, classroom experiences and all the little moments we share have become an important part of my student journey.
Maybe this is what student life really gives us—not just knowledge, but people and memories that become a part of who we are.
We enter school as children. We leave college with a better understanding of ourselves. And by the time we reach university, we are standing somewhere between being a student and becoming an adult.
The journey teaches us how to adjust, how to communicate, how to build relationships, how to dream and how to move forward.
We may not always know exactly where life is taking us. Maybe we never completely figure it out. But with the guidance of our teachers, the support of our friends and the experiences we collect along the way, we keep moving.
So, on World Students’ Day, I feel we should remind ourselves of one simple thing:Let us not be so busy preparing for our future that we forget to live our present.
Let us study and chase our dreams, but let us also enjoy being students.
Let us make mistakes, learn from them, laugh a little louder, make good friends and create memories.
Because one day, when our student life becomes a story from the past, it may not be our marks or assignments that we remember first.
We may remember the people.
The laughter.
The little moments.
The friendships.
And the feeling of belonging somewhere.
For now, I just want to live this phase fully—with my little CUJ family, my MCNM batchmates, my teachers and all the beautiful moments that student life has given me.
Because tomorrow is never promised.
But today, we are students.
And today deserves to be lived
I would be grateful if you could kindly review it for possible publication.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
I look forward to your response.
Warm regards,
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
