Hostel Life – An Experience of Urban Survival!

We all are safe and protected when we stay at our home sweet home but life changes when we step out, all on our own, when we are no more in the protective shield of our parents, no more home-made food, no more old friends from the school. Circumstances change and even people do. You enter a world where you step in as an independent individual.

Hostel life is completely different from our homely life, you can sleep whenever you feel like, you have to eat at the time set and wait for the mess to open. When at home we sit with our family members and share our meal but in a hostel we share the eating place with our roommates, and other people from the adjoining room. We meet new people and most importantly the things that we get to learn and the experience that we gain in this period of independence away from home and parents it the best thing. We come in contact with people with different temperaments and different nature, we learn as to how to deal with people, and the tactic in which some of them should be tackled. In short the hostel becomes a “home away from home”.

Apart from those rules and regulations that we have to follow in a hostel, each one is his/her own master. Those who become nostalgic, go away to their respective homes on long vacations, but those who love their independence, they love hostel life.

Advantages of a Hostel Life

Undoubtedly hostel life is full of amusements, moreover when you have jovial people as your company, life becomes more easy and joyful. One starts adjusting in the new environment and with new people. Studying no longer seems to be pressurizing especially then when you have many people to discuss and study with. That atmosphere during examinations or assessments, when all are awake late at night, there are no mother’s to say “you should sleep early”, even if you are sleepy you still don’t sleep just because your roommate is still studying, that feeling of competition steps in.

One good friend in your hostel can give you a good company, and the girly gang can be great too. When you sit down together for gossips discussing the most appealing guy in the college, your favourite actors, movie, long criticisms about a person, storytelling, all this adds a charm to the hostel life. Moreover sharing your eating stuff with your roommates and eating theirs is another best part of a hostel life. Day to day eating, merrymaking in the hostel, treating people for every small occasion, makes the hostel life the best phase of a student.

Others inspire us. Undoubtedly, there are many people in the hostel who inspire us, there shall be someone who inspires you to exercise regularly and maintain a healthy diet, or there may be someone who studies regularly at a particular time, one thing is for sure that a good student definitely becomes an inspiration for the rest of the hostellers.

If one is ill or is suffering from some kind of pain or illness, he/she is taken care of by all the fellow hostellers. There is mutual cooperation among all, therefore overall personality development takes place at this stage when all work and study together and help each other through all circumstances.

Negative Aspects of a Hostel Life

There are two side of a coin, so even the conditions in the hostel and around you cannot always be good and simple. You will face people who wish to compete with you in everything that you do, be it in maintaining friends, or scoring more in the examinations. There might even be cases where you might face people who irritate you for no reason, in such situations you have to maintain your cool, but surely revert back when you feel that the situations are exceeding their limit.

Freedom for some of the students leads them on wrong path, they go astray, movies become a daily routine. Disc’s and pubs gain more importance than their studying; they forget the prime motive of their life for which their parents send them out. Such students surely repent for this folly in their near future who spend their parents hard earned like water.

Survival Tips for Hostellers

• Take care of your stuff, be it money, any other valuable and also your lingerie’s, because many students who do not get sufficient money to spend in their hostel life, steal money of their roommates or of people from the other rooms, therefore one must make sure that his/her money is not accessible to anyone else.
• One must try and develop friendly relations with the students and their families who are localities of that place, you will be less nostalgic and feel homely with them and their home made food.
• Maintain good and healthy relations with your roommates try and adjust in the situations with them because they shall be your family for the rest of your stay in the hostel.
• Be ready to face anything new that comes up. Always remember you are there to experience and learn from what you see and tackle.
• There will certainly be such occasions where you might have to stand up for protection of your self esteem, so be brave and face it all.
• Always adjust with people in your surroundings, than being sulk, because it’s not just you who has come out of your house to study there are many more like you, so they might feel the same way as you feel, so stay at peace with other hostellers and stand up for your right whenever needed.

Therefore, each one of you who are away from their families and houses, be a little concerned about your parents who trust you and send across their hard earned money for you to spend for your necessities and needs. Moreover do not trust anyone easily outside, especially girls who get influenced by anyone and everyone who flatter them. Keep a track of whatever you spend and spend judiciously wherever you go.