Advice for Anyone Wanting an Unforgettable Time at Hostel.
Some sane advice that will ensure you have a fantastic time with your friends. O f course, you can ignore the advice if you aren't into bonding with friends, having intimate conversations and not into meaningful friendships.
1. Go out everyday. No matter what the rules say, what your daily outing permit is, always try to sneak out. You must explore- your city, your friends, yourself, the boundaries of your friendship, everything. It's a really rewarding experience and it forms fantastic memories. Plus, you'll regret the time you spent sitting indoors watching T.V. or doing some other silly thing when you could have been out bonding with your friends.
2.If you go out but have nothing to do, still go out and do nothing. If you are confined to your hostel, sit around doing nothing with your friends. It's the time together that mare than anything. It makes for irreplaceable and unshakable bonding.
3. Be Broke. It's an experience of a lifetime. And it's an excellent test of friendship. Owe people money and let people owe you money. But if things don't work out, call mom and dad to bail you out.
4.Own a camera. Preferably a digital one because it's cheaper to get prints. A manual one will cost next to nothing to buy, but the film and developing costs a lot which is a big crunch on students. If you have a laptop, nothing like it, but if you don't feel free to use your room mates. (My room mate the adorable Surabhi, has both. Aditi and I take full advantage of it. But that's because we have that kind of a bond and understanding) Take tonnes of photos- of every little thing- every aspect of your life in hostel. From your plate of food to your messy room to the view from your room to a taxi ride you took together to the butt of the cigarettes you smoked.
5. Share. Talk. To everyone. It'll take a lot of meaningful as well as meaningless conversation to find THEM- the people who think like you and love you for exactly who and what you are.(Actually, this should be the first step)
6. Be comfortable with yourself. Don't pretend you are something you are not because you'll be caught in 10 seconds flat by the people you're living with 24/7. Even if they don't see through your mask immediately, they will eventually catch on. And when they do, they'll feel let down, betrayed and deceived. Disaster.
1. Go out everyday. No matter what the rules say, what your daily outing permit is, always try to sneak out. You must explore- your city, your friends, yourself, the boundaries of your friendship, everything. It's a really rewarding experience and it forms fantastic memories. Plus, you'll regret the time you spent sitting indoors watching T.V. or doing some other silly thing when you could have been out bonding with your friends.
2.If you go out but have nothing to do, still go out and do nothing. If you are confined to your hostel, sit around doing nothing with your friends. It's the time together that mare than anything. It makes for irreplaceable and unshakable bonding.
3. Be Broke. It's an experience of a lifetime. And it's an excellent test of friendship. Owe people money and let people owe you money. But if things don't work out, call mom and dad to bail you out.
4.Own a camera. Preferably a digital one because it's cheaper to get prints. A manual one will cost next to nothing to buy, but the film and developing costs a lot which is a big crunch on students. If you have a laptop, nothing like it, but if you don't feel free to use your room mates. (My room mate the adorable Surabhi, has both. Aditi and I take full advantage of it. But that's because we have that kind of a bond and understanding) Take tonnes of photos- of every little thing- every aspect of your life in hostel. From your plate of food to your messy room to the view from your room to a taxi ride you took together to the butt of the cigarettes you smoked.
5. Share. Talk. To everyone. It'll take a lot of meaningful as well as meaningless conversation to find THEM- the people who think like you and love you for exactly who and what you are.(Actually, this should be the first step)
6. Be comfortable with yourself. Don't pretend you are something you are not because you'll be caught in 10 seconds flat by the people you're living with 24/7. Even if they don't see through your mask immediately, they will eventually catch on. And when they do, they'll feel let down, betrayed and deceived. Disaster.
posted by this is me | Wednesday, March 28, 2007
5 Comments:
Thanks for these warm advices..will surely try them out once i'll step into a hostel...good post! drop by my blog to check out some interesting stuffs on friednship that I have updated of late :)
and non- hostelites can just sulk their way out of college. Unke toh dil hi nahin hote na?
Theek hai, abh main sab samajh gayee.
bhut ache..ure updated..phantastic advice
hey pallo (result of an incessant head ache 2 days before paper 7!): Actually, I've always thought of my house as a girls' hostel with a poor male who's strayed in to it, to his utter bad luck! We're so many girls under one roof and agar koi friends ya cousins aa jaatey hain, it's crazy how many of us can live happily together. And abt going out, it was so funny when i read ur "advice" cos just a day before exams, we were sitting in barista (my sis, cousin, and I) and they were both intendedly broke, but that didn't stop em from eating the dirty food (jab bill pay karna tha, all eyes turned to my wallet!)
hah! so true naa?
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