First Day At College

I took my ISC examination in March 2007 and then enjoyed a long off for two months with only three entrance examinations to get over. During that time I had gone to Delhi for a week and to Kolkata a couple of times. And at the end of those two months there I was at the St. Xaviers college in Kolkata.

It feels good to be here. The first event in my college life was the inauguration and the orientation ceremony – which by the way was not so happening, you know. Frankly, the speeches were really long and three hours seemed like three years.

But the day finally did get over and next morning I was ready to face my first day in college. The first thing that crossed my mind that morning was, well.. you can guess.. ragging.

God knows how petrified I was. Having heard really crazy and scary things about ragging I entered college nervously. It didn’t help that it was raining as if it would never stop. Braving the rain and the sludge I stepped out of the house to begin a new phase in my life. having stepped out, I had to decide now how to reach college. There was the bus and the taxi. Fellow students and friends had warned me about the buses in Kolkata but I decided to step up and face the music – little anticipating what was to come.

I was lost in my thoughts till after three stops a wave of commuters rushed in suddenly and the next moment I found myself being glared at by a giant of a woman. She looked angry and I knew something bad – really bad – was about to happen. “Aita maer joner seat aache,” (“This seat is for women,”) she blared right into my face. I neatly rose. Moral of the story – No buses in Kolkata.

The horrible bus experience finally ended at Chowringee lane. More was to follow as i walked down Park Street. The rain battered down me, car honks drove me crazy and the sight all around me looked absolutely terrifying. Park Street, where the college was located, was flooded to the chin.

The ten minute walk to college became a thirty minute waddle. I was late, completely drenched and marginally terrified of ragging and yet putting up a brave front. But no matter what, I had no intention to miss the first day of college.

After forty minute of the gruelling bus ride, thirty minutes of water waddle, I stepped into college and found myself staring at a notice that said “All classes suspended due to floods”. And that was my first day in college.

Admission Essay Help: Signifying Easy Admission

Taking admission in your dream college can be easy if you have an effective college admission essay. It is one component that determines admission. A strong essay plays important role in presenting your seriousness, intent and competency level to attend college. Admission essays should be focused and succinct, and not more than a page or two. Let’s discuss the important points in brief.

Introduction

To grab interviewer attention, your introduction should be impressive. Both expressive and informative are keys to make introduction impressive. If you are confused, it’s better to take admission essay help from your friends and teacher. They may suggest you to make an impressive title and can suggest you how to make your topic readable and interesting.
Write down the thesis statement of the admission essay that you can use in the last sentence of the introduction.

Keep the sentences concise and expressive. It’s good to use “I” statement to give personal touch of your essay. Your intro should give ideas to reader what they are going to learn from your essay. In other words, explain to the reader that your essay is filled with personal anecdotes. It will help readers to identify your creditability.

Body

Be honest and sincere. Heartfelt and personal application essays are the ones that admission department gives value and consider them seriously. Don’t be boastful or exaggerate facts. It’s better to write the event that makes your essay strong and gives strong personal feelings. Your writing can be easier if you write something about personal and you are interested in it.

Don’t forget to highlight anything that makes your essay strong and you think that it can help to get admission in your dream college. Don’t risk being accused of academic dishonesty by creating far-fetched and whimsical tales.

Avoid using hard vocabularies or the words you are not quite certain about their appropriate usage. Consistently misuses of vocabularies can give bad impression. Stay with word count guidelines. If it is instructed to write 500 words, there is no need to exceed 1000 or more than it. Don’t forget to proofread your admission essay to correct any grammatical error or to put miss words.

To write an effective admission essay, term and research paper writing can help you. During your school days, don’t forget to participate on them. This is the exceptional help that can make your base of essay writing strong.

The Dynamics and Scope of The Education System

As argued in earlier blogs the formal education system are not enough to make us good citizens, good friends and above all good human beings.

This is for two reasons. The first reason is that the formal education systems usually don’t keep with the changes in the society. Once in a heaven, once in some fifty years or even more, there comes a wave of reforms which yields some changes in the already running education system. But again the system goes in hibernation with taking what is going on for granted to be right for generations together till when a new wave of reforms comes forth.

Thus for most of the times the education system lags behind what is going on in the society. And the more mismatched with the society it becomes, the more ineffective it becomes for students’ overall development.

The second reason is that we are not basically and mainly taught in our formal schools and colleges. They shape our growth quite a lot but society teaches us more. Once a parent made a complaint before a teacher that his ward was not behaving well with elderly people. The teacher asked the parent a question: how many hours did a student spent in the school?  The answer naturally was: six hours. And how many hours does he/she spend at home?

The point is not only symbolic. You learn speaking outside the school; your social, economic and cultural atmosphere are what define most of you. You with your conscious efforts can utilize the facilities at your school to bring changes in you; but they are mostly nominal.

Let us take the point from another angle. If formal education is the decisive factor; why very learned past graduate scholars commit suicide when they come to face some social problems? Why a few of them become drug addicts? In many cases the cause for their trouble is their senior or professor who is even more learned?

The fact is that it is your social make-up of personality which makes you brave or coward; honest or corrupt; and friendly or aloof. Bearing this in mind be aware of your extra educational concerns to face the challenges of life better and to contribute to the society better.

Think Beyond the Education System

To think of a building a career thus means that we have to de velop ourselves outside the education system as well. We have to develop skills that will help us to be considered seriously by the outside world and to become better human beings.

These skills are not taught in our schools and colleges, so they will have to be acquired by the individual himself. But these are essential skills.

Know your subject: going to college means getting an education, so the time should be used to knowing one’s subject. Unfortunately, many students use it to waste it away by enjoying themselves with their friends. The media too projects college as a place of having fun only and if students start believing this, they end up getting degrees but are useless to the society.

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It is hardly surprising that 77% of engineering students are unable to pass a simple test conducted by recruiting company. Unless you want to be in the ignorant 77 % use your opportunity in college to get a good education, otherwise your degree will be worthless.

Learn About the World: a good doctor, manager, engineer or just about any professional, should know what is going on in the rest of the w world. Awareness of current affairs becomes important.

Yet college students seldom read newspapers or magazines. Watching television is limited to films and music shows. Long term career planning can hardly be done if you do not know and understand the trend of society.

Skilled Training: Helps In The Development Of A Company

Some people have a feeling that giving training and skilled education to their workers would be wastage of resources and time. But this opinion is far from truth. By getting skilled techniques and education the workers would become more efficient. Their performance would increase drastically and this would enhance the output of a company. Skilled education and training can enhance your company and employees in the following way:

Increase in productivity

Employees learn to finish new tasks easily without any trouble. The advanced techniques make them perform everyday jobs more efficiently. They learn shortcuts to complete their goals in less time.

Employees continue with a company

Employees not having proper guidance will perform poorly and there strong chances of them leaving a company. Employees will surely continue with a company if there are opportunities of learning new skills used in their industry.

Employees get job satisfaction

If there is investment of money and time in the skills of employees they feel appreciated and valued. They get interested in learning more and perform their work with more enthusiasm. Good job satisfaction would cause less number of people leaving the company and consequently result in higher productivity.

Companies get the best candidates

If a company gives skilled training to the employees, then they would be able to recruit a candidate who is otherwise extra-ordinary but lacks a certain skill. The company would get the best talent as candidates would be willing to join it due to attractive future prospects. The potential employees would be delighted to find the room for growth. Besides this, if you have facilities of training the existing employees then there would be no need of unnecessary hiring new staff.

Employee supervision is not needed

Skill-based education and training helps employees to perform better, and also make them work independently. As a result, there is not much requirement of employee supervision. With this discussion we find that skilled education and training is a must for the development of a company. If surely pays rich dividends in the long run.

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