This is my experience of two years in Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, which was shared by me during our Annual and Farewell Function.
I would like
to express my appreciation to all of my teachers, friends who helped me to get
where I am right now; standing here in front of u. The first day when I entered
the department, I was nervous and when I went in the class, Daily Schedule was
going on. For few seconds, I was just confused that what was going on and asked
about it to one of my seniors. They informed me that daily schedule was going
on in which various types of activities are held. When I took admission in
Bhavnagar, I was just alien to this place and at that time, my seniors,
teachers and classmates helped me a lot. My first language is Gujarati but I
don’t know it very well and so language has always been a barrier for me. From
that day to even today, whenever any new Gujarati word comes, Ranjan and other
friends help me in understanding it. I learnt many things from my seniors and
classmates and from juniors too. After coming here, many of my skills enhanced
and the biggest hurdle was stage fear which wiped away. Our seniors encouraged
us a lot to participate in every event. I took part in many competitions like
Youth Festival, Excel Expression, Essay Competition and the recently held
Global Conference on English Studies. This was an international conference held
at Vallabhvidyanagar where we got the chance to present paper and interact with
scholars like Bill Ashcroft, David Crystal and Mahesh Dattani. Being a leader
of the Daily Schedule Committee, I enjoyed my work a lot. Everyday encouraging
students, taking pictures and keeping records were a part of it. During my
first semester, I always thought like what is the use of these online
discussions and blogs which are given to us but now I can understand the value
of it as after a couple of months, we will be teaching somewhere and it will
help us as we also will apply it on our students. This department is like a
second home for us as we spend almost 6-7 hours here. The environment here is
very different as when we enter the department, we forget the outside world. We
didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun. We
celebrated many festivals together and really they will be in our memories now.
Sir taught us- Learning, unlearning and relearning and I always applied this
theory as when we go in the class, we should have empty mind, then and only we
will learn new things and new ideas well also come in our mind. Keep
questioning yourself because you never know how many answers you will need to
find the path of life that you truly want to take.
Here, we
also got opportunity to study from different professors like Dr. Atanu
Bhattacharya, Dr. Mandaliya and Dr. Sanjay Mukherjee etc. Teaching style of
every professor was unique and I am pleased that we got opportunity to study
under them. We also had a Placement at our department by an IT firm- Milople
Technologies Private Limited. It happened for the first time that a placement
was held in Department of English. I, Nimesh and Milan were selected from the
Department and I reached till the final round. It was really a good experience
as it was first interview of my life. I am really grateful to Dilip Barad Sir to give us the opportunity. Finally I want to say that these 2 years at department were
memorable for me and I will always cherish these moments. I am thankful to all
my teachers. You empowered us with the power of knowledge. You motivated us
with the best tutelage. You helped us move ahead with mending motivation. I
would also like to thank our seniors, classmates and juniors for supporting me
and helping me at every step. I’ve learned that friends become kind of family.
You eat together; you take naps together, fight, laugh, cry and do obviously
nothing together until you can’t remember how you ever lived your life without
them in the first place.
Thank You
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