Life in a college hostel

Hostel life makes a student regular in studies and games.The time for studies and games is usually fixed,and their teachers or supervisors watch students.The atmosphere of a good hostel is such that it makes a student interested in his regular activities.He likes to move ahead and to do better than others.If he falls behind the senior students,the teachers can help him to improve himself.Thus he finds himself engaged in a happy competition.Not only in studies and sports,in other matters like student management of the hostel dining hall,library,common room,indoor games and debating and other clubs he can work and gain valuable experience.

In any case,a student learns to live independently in a hostel.He cannot get his parents' and elders' help as he can at home in practically every matter.Sometimes he has to take decisions independently,for example,whether to go on a trip organized by the college or to participate(take part) in a college function.He chooses his friends and companions himself and decides what he may do in his free time.Later in practical life,he can adjust himself to changing conditions and circumstances rather easily.

In a hostel,a student learns to co-operate.In various different matters like cleaning the rooms and corridors,getting the clothes washed or providing facilities to some guests from another college or new students in the hostel he helps others and gets help in return.Hostel life,in this sense,is corporate or group life in which the problems of one are,on many occasions,the problems of all.

The pleasures and enjoyments of hostel life are many.We can have friends to our liking.We can play different games in the college lawns or in the common room.We get the greatest enjoyment of life in the company of students like us learning,working and eating together.Without the experiences of hostel life,in our opinion,the life of a student remains incomplete in several ways.

At times studies in hostels feel homesick and wish to be with their parents and relations.It is natural for them to miss the atmosphere and comforts of the home where they were born.But then the pleasures and activities of hostel life remove much of the homesickness.

A student remembers his hostel life forever.His experiences there bring him rich rewards in practical life.