What have you learnt?
August 17, 2010: Students of an English medium school attempt suicide by swallowing sleeping pills in the school washroom after allegedly being reprimanded by a teacher.
April 16, 2010: A final-year MBBS student of NRS Medical College & Hospital leaps to death from the terrace of the five-storey boys’ hostel on the campus. He was reportedly depressed because he was not performing to expectation.
June 16, 2009: An 18-year-old student of IIT-Kharagpur commits suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room. The boy had ranked reasonably high
December 6, 2008: A student of Indian Statistical Institute commits suicide by hanging in his hostel room. The suicide by the brilliant student shocks family and relatives
As reported by TOI and several other newspapers. Now this might not qualify as “Campus Buzz” , but I am taking the freedom and slightly misusing my authority here. You will get to know why….
When in school, I thought the tenth board exams were the end of the world. It seems like the only difficult thing in life. Today, I can well laugh at my fears. Nobody would even ask you how well or bad you did in the almighty board exams. It was just another thing. I really feel foolish to have wasted half my years studying so much. School was meant for fun. Sadly, I studied. I was told “beta, after 12th, you will have just fun!!! College will be fun!!!”
I entered college. DCE. Wow. I thought fun at last! Spent a great first semester carefree! Made really great friends. Especially my best buddy, Karina (I really miss her now). Exams and the like were least of my concerns. Atleast now I thought nobody would really care about my marks and performance. All my hopes were shattered when the result of the first sem were out. I was expected to score better they said. So all the fun talk was rubbish I get to know. Anyways, not being the person who takes everything seriously, it was decided that there would be no harm devoting some of our precious times to the holy course books. Like good kids, we studied. We scored good. We were expected to do better still.
That was when I first learn my swear words properly (I used them quite often before too, never meaningfully…).
If engineering has taught me anything, it is this: it is useless to study. If you have to score, you will score, if not, nothing can stop you from getting a bad grade. So entered into fun mode throughout the semesters and would touch the books and notes only during exams. Thus continued my life and I thought phew, finally some respite.
But no, it doesn’t end here. Now I needed to have an aim in life. What about placements?
And the story goes.
Really, when are we expected to have some fun? Not like we ask anybody’s opinion on it when we go out and party with our friends. But when do they really give us the right to do so?
When faced with a suicide case,
A psychiatrist will say: Its all the parents’ fault. They should give more time to their kids. Listen to them.
Newspapers: will have another story to write about.
Parents: will suffer. They really will be in no position to do anything
Their friends will: suffer
When a kid decided to end his life, he takes with him the life of everyone who loved him. There is no sense in advocating a suicide. But can we have a look into the WHY????
Life isn’t that tough. It is made to look tough. College life teaches your course subject to only a handful of students. It is supposed to teach you more of dealing with life.
I learnt how many different types of people you can meet. How to react. When to swear. When not to. Whom to trust. Whom not to. Who to fall in love with. And who not. When to take things seriously and when not.
Its all simple. Or maybe just a teeny weeny bit complicated. But not so much that you need to put a full stop to it.
Tell me frankly, what have you learnt so far in your college?
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A brilliant article! I must say, perhaps more so, coz, I can identify with the situations…………
The first sem just went by, didn’t study a bit; the repercussions, will be felt once the results are out…..
Again have got a core group of buddies with me…. and one last thing, beware of success mongers…..
Sajal
December 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm
thats another thing i learnt buddy!
thanks!
anwesha
December 11, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Again got familiar with a harsh reality….
We read these kind of things daily but where does the solution lies?
In this modern world we actually have no time for fun or we have full time for it!
It’s just our choice…
Jaskirat Singh
December 11, 2010 at 7:07 pm
the day you realise that all that hard work was in vain…. its too late.
y exactly r we sitting n working our arses off for? money? fame? what?
in the end, what matters is living life to its fullest… which i doubt we are doing at all.
anwesha
December 11, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Is it really in vain? Hmm…?
When you have the luxuries you have, will all of the hardwork seem to be in vain…?
We’re sitting in DTU, think about the others who haven’t made it… It’s the hardwork that separates us from them….
This is not to say, stop having fun, rather I’ve enjoyed my stay, till now, to the fullest….
A balance is what is needed….
Sajal
December 12, 2010 at 12:20 pm
There you are right again!
i would correct it as:
“along with working hard, you need to have fun”
strike a balance as you say!
anwesha
December 12, 2010 at 12:42 pm
nopes. it isnt about the education system. its about the perception. the day you realise education is only abcd but more about teaching you to be a human who can deal with humans…. the problem will be solved.
anwesha
December 12, 2010 at 12:29 am
Agreed!!!
Sajal
December 12, 2010 at 12:15 pm
its very hard to comment on the situation, nobdy but the sufferer could understand this, its easy to say keep
but what is the reason of this smile …..surrounded by thousands of problem n searching for a single reason to be happy…..priority chnge with time n dr is a time when when these priority becomes everything in life…everyone just comment on it its bad, u r hurting urself etc etc…..
iam not saying if dr is any problem in ur life follow only single path of…. certainly this is not the solution but iam looking for a answer that could be alternate to suicide……that help in reducing stress..,].. that prsn have to die everyday so he thinks doing it a single time it will end the problem….
@tanuj: education system is fine …..new problem would be still dere with chnge…n its not guaranteed that dr will be no suicide with chnge of system ….. dere is a need to chnge urself n not that system…a prsn shud feasible n adapt himself acc. to the system.
iam still looking for an answer…whats an alternate??????
abc
December 12, 2010 at 12:16 am
life isnt about what you got, its about what you make out of what you got….
anwesha
December 12, 2010 at 12:27 am
What have you learnt? Nothing is the answer. Everybody is aware of the problem but have no magical solution. We want our children to achieve more more and more what we could not.It is not actually limited to Children only.In our society we expect the best- hell out of a person for Top achievements in every field.We put and create so much stress on the person with out knowing his capabilities whether he can face it or not resulting in success or total failure. The constant senseless Rat race for endless success and Top achievements pressure on a person can lead to Stress induced psychic-psychosomatic behavior problems with urgent need to tackle them. We need to have proper solution for this in our Education system before more wrong happens and more precious lives are lost.This is a very important Collective issue and we must find a solution soon .
Dr Ashok Kumar Singhal
December 12, 2010 at 6:28 am
I would like to point out here that the current system has stopped tenth board exams.
Do you think it will help reduce pressure? or simply create more troubles?
Anuj
December 12, 2010 at 6:14 pm
The current system has done much more than just stopping 10th boards. But first things first.
I am personally in favor of the 10th boards. All of the pressure worries are useless; If students can’t take even this reduced pressure then what will they handle?
I rather like the new NCERT books, which have been published… Man! If we had these facilities at our time!
Sajal
December 12, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I guess we all would have topped then
anwesha
December 13, 2010 at 12:26 am
Exactly!!
Sajal
December 13, 2010 at 6:36 pm
I learnt not to fall in love in college!
Himani
December 17, 2010 at 10:36 pm
You learnt this without really not falling in Love or after falling in Love..??
anand
December 17, 2010 at 10:42 pm
when you learn something you are in doubt that you might not know the whole thing. when you learn a lot about something you are sure that you dont know the whole thing. the more you learn the more you feel that your knowledge is incomplete. so its a never ending process.. what you learn use it, thats the best way..
karishma
December 26, 2010 at 12:16 am
nicely copied from
http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/times-of-india-the/mi_8012/is_20101209/teen-suicides-pressure-perform-toll/ai_n56461401/
Lack of originality here.xD Hardly do I see original articles there except few students who write on their own.
cant share my name xD
December 31, 2010 at 8:20 am
Yes, please go to the link you have pasted here, and then compare the articles. If only you had the ability to go beyond the news articles and reach the line “As reported by TOI and several other newspapers. “, you would have seen the utter idiocity of your comment. You are free to search any other portion of the article and then post your views.
I am amused to see that you (nameless) took the pains to search fr the frst two lines and then quit reading the rest of the articles and still you claim to read the “original pieces”.
Well, here I would like to point out that ALL entries in Indian Fusion are original.
The statistics/data are taken from proper sources and the analysis is done by the author himself/herself.
In future I urge “cant share my name xD” to kindly improve his/her reading skills and try to read the complete entry before displaying his/her stupidity through comments.
Happy New Year senor/senorita!
anwesha
December 31, 2010 at 12:16 pm