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10 LESSONS TO TAKE FROM SCHOOL TO COLLEGE

DEAR FRIEND, YOU ARE YOUR OWN PARENT NOW
I bet you say to yourself, 'Hey, I am so confused with life, I need some advice ' or 'Professor, I don't have a career choice yet...' or 'Mom, Should  I be a part of this cultural event?' or 'Dad, Is this dance my calling?' . In college, do you constantly call up your parents or professors for advice and always get an unsatisfactory response or feel that it's not enough. (SIGH) BUT....Congratulations, my friend, you have entered a world that treats you as an adult (apart from the customary morality speeches). Your well-wishers now will see you as a complete Mister or Missus, and given the generation gap they are perfectly correct for there is not much they can do now! College is when you come out of your little, frail and fragile cottage and enter the high-raised and emotionless offices. No one will identify abilities for you. Opportunities will not come to you served on a platter. Any workshop, competition or an idea you stumble on, do not look on your side for approval...mommy and daddy won't be right there. Instead you need to look back, for a nod and some emotional assurance only! So....it's the time you become your own parent. Thus making you capable in decision making which will help you a lot ahead in you especially professional life.

2.  DEAR FRIEND, TIME TO SAY YES TO EVERYTHING 
Even if you're the Mayan Calendar with all your dates and life documented and planned, you do not know where your career and life take you. So if any opportunity, person, responsibility, job, workshop, advertisement etc come your way... do not think twice about taking part. SAY YES!  It can take you to mountains, and down alleys and long winding pavements that you couldn't have imagined. Put yourself in the most uncomfortable positions if you have to for you will create stories to remember. Moreover it doesn’t hurt to experiment while in college coz after that you will not get chances to explore different sides of yourself. You will make mistakes you'll laugh at! If you have the annoying 'emergency break' tendency to pull the plug and no try something new, then you will remain in school. Is there a competition coming up?? GO. Is there an advertisement for this cool coding conference?? GO. See someone interesting in the bus? TALK!...Off with the emergency break....


3. It's OK
It's OK to feel whatever you feel and not know where you are going. Doubt, low confidence, self doubt, boredom, lust, confusion....Don't be hard o yourself....This is life, the climax is meant to be a suspense. Would AXN's Sherlock be fun if you knew the FINAL SCENE? Moreover these are the years where you can find the true you and no one achieved anything in the first try without making mistakes. 


4. BOARD MARKS DO NOT MATTER
This is one thing you will get to know as soon as you reach college and will make most of you happy. Are you disheartened with a 60% or are you super-complacent with a 96% ? Do not be. It's ONLY your ticket into the world of college and not your master stroke achievement. Your game has just started .No one made it big in life with the perfect board marks. Throw your petty report card into the non-recyclable trash can....it is not something that defines you for life! Venture out! Throw more colors and spices to the report card of life.

5.  CHOOSE COMPANY WISELY
College is where you make a life for yourself. Life love, friendships can make you or break you. You start making choices between booze or snooze, all-nighters or daily study, wrong and right...It is an impressionable age and you will not know how the environment of the people around seeps into you. Judgments people wisely and do not let them influence you! Or don’t crumble under peer pressure if you feel something is not right for you say NO, it won’t ruin your friendship and if it does and those people weren’t your friends at all. 

6. 5 SECOND RULE
If you are doubtful in any situation about 'To be or not to be' or 'To enroll or not enroll myself' or 'Talk to her or not talk to her'....if you marry the thought with an action within 5 second then, congrats the thought is still alive. Send yourself a text or write on your hand or even get up to enroll or talk! Since you have decided to say YES to everything, this rule will give you all the courage to let go off your demons,  baggage and inhibitions for those seconds. After that happens, you go with the flow soldier!

7.MASTER A NEW SKILL
Are you someone who doesn't have a particular hobby? Do you think you're too busy or too old now that you are a bachelor of a course?. If you are 18, fat, lazy or inflexible but have always wanted to do ballet....do not stop. You can do whatever you want hence add a new fresh skill to your kitty. It is something that plugs the boredom out of your college life and studies. Trust me, the time you spend on it will repay you with self discoveries and a unique skill set. And if you don’t try something new what the difference coming to college has even made, changes and experiments are necessary my friend to keep the thrill in life.

8.KEEP OLD SKILLS ALIVE
Skill...it's a nice little word. It keeps your tongue rolling and soul alive. You were a person in school you did a lot of singing , painting or tennis. Now in college, you call yourself 'old', you think, 'Hey, time to let go...I am too busy'. You are a WRONG and you are committing gross murder. Murder, of that part of your brain that keep you creative and colorful! Do not give into the monotony of studies and career, so to say. Keep the 'lalaasss' and 'hooolas' alive! A plus point of these skills can be they can be a great ice breaker especially when you are new in the college and looking for some friends having the same skills like singing or playing an instrument. Thus our OLD skills help in building NEW relationships. 


9.DON'T TRY TO DECORATE A RESUME
Sigh, the world and the student community is plagued by numbers. School life you are told that you should be a good student. You slowly tick through time trying to fill your report with impressive yet meaningless numbers. In college, you are told that 'CGPA is life' and your résumé has to be sparkling and alluring. Your résumé , my friend, does not have to be Nicole Kidman. Your résumé is prey to the 'unrealistic beauty standards' of this monotonous world, and do not get blinded by them! Take up jobs, participate in workshops etc. for your sake, not to paint your résumé for some random company to judge you by. You should also listen to your inner self and do things which you find interesting instead of just trying to live by the standards set by others. 

1O.CREATE MEMORIES
Memories create funny conversations, funny conversations keeps you younger. And young is good! You are a little restricted in school for you are a little puppy. In college, it's time you let yourself free and make full use of the freedom. if anything goes right, left or wrong..tell yourself that you are creating memories for a hearty laugh in the future, sitting by the fireplace fifty years from now with your glass of wine, family and dog. So wag your tails and seize the world by your paws! 

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