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First Day of College: From miscomfort to missing! 



pasted-image.tiffThere are certain memories which you create unexpectedly and cherish for life; and then there are days which are by marked in advance by your brain as unforgettable memories, irrespective of how exciting it is or what happens. The latter is the category where my first day of college falls.

A second year student now, I somehow realize that for 17 years of my life I had just been imagining what this one day would be like. What I would wear, whom I would speak to, what sort of friends I would make and most importantly, what I would be. As a musical person, I imagined to be walking around the college with a guitar coolly slung over my back, never for once remembering its size. I wanted to become a debater too, attending debates everywhere; and ace my grades despite being this busy.

Life does give you surprises when thrown into new waters.

I walked , an innocent and eager young fresher, into the huge red building of JMC on 20th July 2016. The first hour at college immediately refuted at least a hundred myths and fantasies  in mind  as to my first day, but most importantly I learnt that:
  1. You do not have acapella singers singing around and inviting you to join their societies (why Pitch Perfect?);
  2. You do not see people just lazily lying around in every nook and corner of the college;
  3. People do seriously study at college. Indian movies really need to change their perspective on what colleges are.

As silly as I sound to myself right now writing this, I cannot help but admit that these were exactly my thoughts. My first day of college breezed away with the day getting over at 12.30 and a lot of free periods. Although relatively uneventful, it still does remain as an important memory.

As a child, college life seems to represent the most carefree days where you have no homework, you can roam around limitlessly and spend as per your own accord. But actually living it is when you realize that there is only one fundamental difference: independence. While independence does give you freedom, it also thrusts responsibility in your hand. Suddenly, it becomes your responsibility to handle your finances, your studies, your attendance, your peer problems and your goals instead of your parents or teachers.In a nutshell, you are taking an introductory course about the real world.


As scary as it may seem to certain people who clearly refuse to ‘adult’, it is actually a wonderful process. You grow more as an individual in these 3-4 years than you would have in your 15 years of school education. You realize that things don’t always happen the way you imagine them to, but there is always something better along the way, something beyond your own imagination.

You, become a JMCite.





By S.Nivvedhitha


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