Who to join College Fest and Why?
I am answering this question because, after investing around four years in College, I found many students regret joining these Fests, Clubs and Societies. I want each endeavour to enjoy their experiences blissfully.
Before claiming the benefits of joining Fest, Clubs or Societies, I would like to tell about students for whom the college fest is useless.
Students who have decent leadership qualities and have no resistance in expressing thoughts. (Enough confidence to do anything).
NB: Students with the above skills can join other Clubs as per their interest or join a fest if they want to increase their personality within a few months.
Then, a question appears in our mind as to what kind of student has to join the Fest. As per my experiences, students looking for an entrepreneurial journey are well suited for a fest. Don’t think I am over exhibiting.
What do I mean by an Entrepreneurial journey? I mean a journey full of peaks and valleys where a person coordinates responsibility full of challenges.
As per Forbes, the most significant challenges every entrepreneur’s faces are :
- Seeing the company fail after an exit
- Fundraising for Your Startup
- Taking the First Leap
- Keeping Ego Under Control
- Balancing perfection and progress
The challenges faced by an entrepreneur can easily be co-related by a student who joins a Fest.
Specifically, These are the points :
- How to locate a specific College/Organization (I know, I know, use Google map) using local people or local streets
- How to talk with people, senior in age as well as in profile
- How to speak in front of 10–100 peoples about your college events without hesitance. Sometime, people will make fun of you, tease you but you need to act like a salesman (keeping ego aside and publicize about events)
- How to ask an Organization for sponsorship without losing hope that the next Organization will also say No for funding.
These things are essential for our life, we do struggle at every point, but we have to be motivated for next steps without falling back.
- How to work in a low budget company/ Fest/ Organization without losing estimated results.
- How to balance the motto of an event as well as appreciate hundreds of participants.
- How to motivate coworkers(Juniors -because they are the next leader, and they should know the jack and traits of this journey) regularly with different stories. Especially here, I feel, senior lagged, there should be good bonding between juniors and seniors with the regular transaction of knowledge.
- How to convert an idea to a full-fledged event.
- How to make connections with great people (very useful in life, nobody knows who will be your next saviour).
I feel there are many benefits, but somehow students lag in getting those things. Even I lagged while in College and used to criticize my seniors for forcing us to do work in Fest. But, there are learning, and we should learn those things as well.
The reason Why students lag in aspiration to work as well learn through these experiences are:
Generally, students do preparation from coaching for IIT, where they get regular motivation and inspiration to pursue their ambitions and get rid of all turmoil things. Whereas in College, the environment is entirely different; students have to take a stand for everything. Here, students don’t get motivation and inspiration, and for most of us, we don’t even know our next milestone.
Before IIT-JEE preparation, the family takes care of everything. They interfere with whom to make friendship, whom to talk, whom to discuss. But, in College, we have to make our friend circle. We have to initiate a conversation by ourselves with seniors.
I want to suggest students join one of these clubs. Don’t just join, take a stand to lead these fest/society/club in their second year as well. You will have a vast experience which will be helpful in your life later someday.
