My College Days

Our college was a decent one with limited resources but to negligence from the administrative wings of the college, students had suffered from less classes & irregular exam schedules.

Course was for three years & we had to undergo exams once on each year. As the syllabus was being prepared by Calcutta University, under which my college was affiliated, and it was content based & was humongous. Though it can teach you a lot about the subject but it was too much in respect of the time given.

Our subject never had the opportunity or the space to have campus interviews at undergraduate level.

We had fresher's cultural program during the 1st year of our course & had sports program such as Inter college Cricket tournament, Athletics competition, Football Tournament each year during the first 2 years in our college. Annual Cultural Festival was the biggest one of our college.

Our admission fee was nominal as it was fixed by the state government. Also the monthly fees of our college was just around 200-250 rupees/month as our subject did not have any laboratory necessity. Our library fees were being included in the monthly fees & it was very less, i. e Rs. 25 per month.

As I had mentioned earlier, our college fees were very nominal & meagre, compared to any other private colleges. So it was not necessary for us to undertake any students loan for this reason. Though there were scopes of scholarship for students of low income backgrounds & it was purely based on academic prowess & economic necessity.

We had a pretty colorful campus with two separate buildings to accommodate around 1500 students of different subjects, in which gender ratio was around 3:2 for men & women respectively. As I mentioned earlier that, we had fresher's welcome program & had sports program such as Inter college Cricket tournament, Athletics competition, Football Tournament each year in our college. Annual Cultural Festival was being hosted outside the college campus though we had a small open air auditorium in our college. We had communal & economic harmony within the students & political awareness were stupendous as we had elections for Class Representative & different Secretary for student union bodies.

Alumni students were pretty helpful though due to huge syllabus pressure, we had limited interactions but they had supported us by providing books, notes of previous year & question patterns.

I got admission through my marks at 12th Standard Board exam. I had to fill up the application form as per norms & could only apply as per eligibility such as above 60% in aggregate & 65% in the honours subject. I joined the college during July, 2010 & merit list was out on the very next week.

We had three professors along with one guest lecturer to teach us. Our head of department was doctorate in Economics & was around 55 years of age & was pretty experienced. Our other two professors were pretty interactive & helpful, though one of them got transfered to another college during 2nd year of our course.