Hostel Life Of a student

The college hostel is  state where people live in perfect harmony. students coming from different parts of the states or a province forget all their differences and begin to live like members of a vast family. The poorest boy feels equal to the richest boy. Friendships which would last a life time are made here. All boys are knit by bonds of love.

 
Hostel is an essential part of a college or university. It is usually located within the
campus It provides facilities of lodging and messing to those students whose parents live in distant towns and villages. Hostel life is, no doubt, the most pleasurable period of a student' life. It has its deep impressions and memories which cannot be forgotten during the rest of life.

Hostel life provides many facilities to a student which cannot be available to him at the house of his parents. Since the hostel is situated within the college campus, his time on coming and going to college daily is saved.

Hostel life gives practical training to a student in his mental, moral and spiritual 
development. He has to observe the rules made by the students themselves and the decisions taken unanimously. All the students take meals together at the fixed times. They have fixed hours for studying, playing, going to sleep and getting up in the morning.

These qualities and good habits prove very useful in his practical life in the future.
Hostel life also inculcates self-confidence in a student and produces in him the qualities of leadership and self-help. He has to lead life without the aid of his parents as well as servants. Every hostel students have to make his own bed, polish his own shoes, press his own clothes and manage his own daily affairs. The students are allowed to elect every month amess Manager out of themselves to decide what to eat and how much to spend.

The most important advantage of hostel life is the opportunity of free communion and intimate relationship between young men of the same age. They belong to different families, having different habits, manners and views of life. This provides a good chance for a hostel student to learn from others and to pick their good habits and manners.

It also enables him to have a good understanding of different human nature and human minds. The student learns to understand his room-mates and to behave with them in a befitting manner. This practical training in human understanding proves very helpful to him when becomes an officer or a business man.

There is the other side of the picture also. Hostel life also has certain demerits and
disadvantages.it is so expensive that most of the parents cannot afford it and refuse to give higher education to their sons and daughters. A hostel student cannot enjoy the freedom and privacy which he can have at the house of his parents. It is true that he is free to spend his time and money in any way he likes. Yet he feels disturbed by the presence of different minded students in his room. He cannot study or sleep peacefully according to his free will. Since the students are living away from the control of parents, they may adopt bad society and waste their time and money in visiting hotels, cinema   housemate. In spite of these disadvantages, the educative value of hostel life is undeniable. Most of the rich parents like to send their children to residential institutions. The qualities developed during hostel life and the friendship made here prove life-long and very valuable.