Friendship that become Family!

Friend:

Who enters in your life by trusting you

Who starts sharing his or her problems by keeping faith in you

Who initiates conversation with you without giving any second thought

   

Who asks you about your life, problems or simply about your likes /dislikes

Who has the ability to make you laugh as well as console you

          

Who's suggestions, ideas, can be life saviour to life changing

Who will drink Beer with you in Pain! and some days force you to make a cup of tea

Who will stand by you against the whole world and would fight crazily with you in personal

           

Who always supports you and also makes you learn from your mistakes

Who accepts you with your madness, the real you

 

Who takes all your things and pretends as if it's his/her's

Who shares not only food but when in need he/she would also share their favorite clothes, shoes with you

Who enters in your life with just trust, remains forever as a family in your life...  

My Quarantine Days!

I remember arguing with my friend about Corona virus. We had a discussion on "Will Corona Virus enter INDIA?" I replied 'No!! It won't affect India' I believed in a myth "In 36 /37℃ temperature virus would not sustain!

13th March 2020 the whole world paused surprisingly.

City which is popularly known as city of speed, city of dreams, unstoppable! Yes, you guessed correct “Mumbai” also stopped.

Schools, colleges, institutions, shops, courts, everything got shut down. People caged into their houses!

Lockdown 1.0 made everyone explore their own house and made them understand their own people closely.

I saw there were two contrast sides to this situation. First, were people got 3 meals a day! And second, were people struggled to get even 1 meal. Situation worsened for the daily laborer’s who used to work to earn money for a day.

Hospitals, police stations, pharmacies, workers, and so on were serving the whole world during these crucial days. Let’s not forget the one person from every family who always used to risk his/her life and used to bring essentials like groceries, medicines...

Lockdown 2.0 made people realize the importance of things that we took granted till date!

After which we all stood with our family and got to know each other's temperaments, love, care and support also the way we started adjusting our lifestyle, compromising on things, and showing patience!

During lock down Honorable P.M Narendra Modi announced several tasks to bring unity and made us believe that we are not alone. Entire world rejoiced in making the sound of vessels, lightning lamps, candles….  Made us realize the unity of the country! Online classes for students, work from home for all job holders! All started looking forward for their own interest and engaging themselves in productive activities. Some were cooking, painting, vlogging, running online tutorials, online fitness training, participating in different contests, following trends!!  #DalgonaCoffee, #MakeupChallenge #UntilTomorrow, #see10send10, #FirstPicChallenge, and so on. By this time the decision of  exam cancellation was taken. All students were promoted to next year except the final year students!

Lockdown 3.0 begins with a limited number of activities allowed to start their functioning. These include travel by air, rail, metro and interstate movement by road. Special train vehicles were arranged for people to move interstate. Newspapers were at the doorstep! Home delivery was back to routine! Lockdown 3.0 gave relaxation and happiness to all the migrants. But there were many people with void hopes and empty pockets and to help those people Film Actor MR. SONU SOOD served helpless migrants which were stuck in Mumbai by arranging private buses with the help of Maharashtra Government also, he donated over 1,500 PPE kits to doctors in Punjab. He has also been feeding thousands of underprivileged people along with providing meal kits to migrants. He had also provided his hotels in Mumbai as accommodation for front-line healthcare workers. There was a boom in social media with praising notes, some of them made good memes on him. He walked in this situation as a God for many people!

It was considered as ‘Relaxation’ because sell of liquor was allowed with certain conditions in all zones. People started gathering at liquor shops across the country in large numbers! Long queues were seen outside the shops! While all these things, final year students were still hoping to get their exams canceled!

Lockdown 4.0 permitting almost all economic activities and significant public movement in all non-containment zones, Buses and private vehicles can be moved with special conditions. Specific activities such as air travel were prohibited, metro rail services were limited.

The limited long-distance trains for migrants and essentials workers will continue! All social places were still barred. Places of worship still remained closed. By this time people were getting house warm. But Final year students were still waiting for their guidelines, decisions!!

Unlock 1.0~ Mission Begin Again! Where markets/shops were opened, except malls to function from June 8 on odd-even basis.

Honorable P.M Narendra Modi announced “ATMA NIRBHAR '' in his speech he urged people to participate individually to stabilize Indian Economy. His speech left us to think about different ideas to make our own business!

 Now we all are used to this lifestyle. People are now more aware that they are fearless! We can see people roaming with designer masks! Meeting people casual ling. Wedding functions and several other functions are celebrated with a limited number of people. All are used to online classes, meetings, and work!

We are still fighting the battle and waiting to WIN this battle against Corona!

But one thing is still not clear!  “What about final year students?”

BE THE CHANGE.

Mahatma Gandhi famously said, "You must be the change you want to see in the world." 

Everything that is happening will change. Every thoughts, feelings, situations, moments, no matter how painful, stressful and intensive things are. Lets try to appreciate those moments by changing ourselves, accepting it and giving back as if it will never happen to us again!

• Why not to be scared or be nervous or be confused in a situation? These can be our strength! It pushes us to reach our ultimate goal. Honor these feelings, emotions and be the change to release it!
• Why can't we perceive problems as next opportunity? It is a chance to know our abilities.
• Why can't we change ourselves instead of changing other people behavior?  

Change is inevitable, uncontrollable all we can do is live upfront and discover happiness and live in the moment. We need not wait to see what others do! Just do it and appreciate your ability and make evolution in yourself. Choose your own expressions, reactions, emotions, own opinion to contribute into life. Make mistake because human are prone to make them! There is lot to learn from it. Always value your own self and other individual.

Change will let you realize, letting go and forgiving the past, will also teach you to be grateful, peaceful and would spread humanity and service in the world.

Lastly, You yourself choose to grow and evolve happier path to be the change you want to see in the world!

                                                                            

My Journey in G.V.Acharya Institute of Engineering

After schooling i stepped into an amazing place for my higher studies (Diploma in Computer Engineering). Institute name : G.V. Acharya  Institute of Engineering. OMG! place with lot of memories, fun, knowledge, strictness, competition, celebration, lectures, friends, punishment and so on. All adjective is been experienced by me!

I remember our orientation session, a traditional way of directing students about college, making them know where they are! that day all superior quality words were said by college!  In session sir asked me "why did you chose this college? i replied " it was near by from my home! ". Further  they mentioned about college surrounding  environment - "N number of waterfalls","hill station spots", "Eco friendly environment, farms, bus facility, hostel facility" etc. and with all this i started my diploma journey!

New friends, professor's, new place, huge infrastructure! it took 2/3 days to understand where exactly the desired places are! Got new friends, supporting staff and a strict HOD.
At our time mobile weren't allowed in the campus! proper uniform of blue shade "robin egg shade" shirt and "pine green" pant! like cherries on the cake "compulsory ID, no bunking, no phones, attendance 75%, parents meeting till first year"

1st  year - First year was mixture of everything! Excitement of college life,  Joy of getting to learn new things, new friends, Fear of subjects, teachers, studies, Shock and Pain of loosing best friend....we always had fun, taught each other, supported each other. he was best known for his "confidence , his mathematics, his fearless attitude, his friendly nature, words are less to express about him! whole college got dejected with his absence! clouded year passed!
2nd year- At this point we had faced a lot and we were well-versed with studies, challenges, success, emotions, failure, importance of life.
Talking about professor's they were next to our family. Teaching, providing notes, sharing their knowledge, guidance, friendliness, support, giving opportunity to explore ourselves through projects, presentations, extra curricular activities, forming committee and so on. At this point we were so much attached with our staff and friends! leaving of staff was so painful for us! (SWAPNIL SIR, VIJAY SIR, PRAJAKTA MAM, SAGAR SIR, JAY SIR, SHASHANK SIR, PRITI MAM, NIKITA MAM , LAVINA MAM, VAISHALI MAM, SHEETAL MAM) -"we miss you!" we'd lot of memories with them and with heavy heart we winded up 2nd year!

3rd year - This was the most beautiful, grateful year! In this year we got new principal "Mr. Nimbalkar sir". A person who is very intelligent, supportive and enthusiastic, his quality brain, and  quality work made 3rd year pass with full of energy! he has driven college with lot of activities! Mr. Tripathi sir, Mr. Mithoon sir, Mrs. Rohini mam, Mrs. Kanchan mam, Ms. Mahi mam, Ms. Bharti mam, Mr. Abhay sir, Mrs. Heena mam...
above all were the "cream of society" who crafted, molded us into a better person!
In this year i was caught many times -"playing CS with friends during practicals!", caught by management of college while bunking! and some secrets! college library was having separate fan base!
Moral support, etiquette, moral values, rules and regulation , strictness etc all qualities been given by (AUTI SIR).
College Industrial Visit - This tour taught us "how we can handle uncertain situation!" loads of memories as bond was grown between staff and student!

Cultural Fest, Youth Festival, Technical Fest, Sports, Civolution, Robotics, Festivals like Navratri, Ganesh utsov, Dahihandi, etc are celebrated with great enthusiasm! core committee organize all above fest to drive college, the core committee is of students itself due to which students can grow their skills (technical , non technical , management skills, communication skills).

Restrictions, Strictness this two things of this college framed us!

Also this institute gives placement to undergraduates.

Following companies visit regularly our campus for placements:

* CMS IT solutions

* CADD Centre

* Marathon reality

* RMC India etc

Tie- up ( through MOU) partners:

1. Swanit Education, for training & Placement Activity for the final Year Students

2. CADD-Center (Ambernath), for imparting Mechanical Engineering Software like CATIA, Solid works, AutoCAD, etc.

while leaving this college my bag was full of

memories , experiences, lovely people, great relationships and most importantly made me a better person! This institution proved above all superior words right! and while leaving the college my definition of this college changed to "college which i chose has made me babyish to grown personality".
G.V. Acharya college of engineering and polytechnic:college website
do visit to get mesmerized with its beauty!

Know Your Worth!

A girl after her schooling applied for diploma course. She was creative, confident and had ability to showcase her knowledge. During the phase of her diploma course she always scored good marks and was a ranker, but before every exam she always asked herself, what is that one thing which is helping her to climb the ladder of success? And always concluded with determination that WHY NOT ME? and continued her graduation. After getting admission in degree college she again went through same question now she was worried and scared, thought she was amongst the competitive crowd, she was unaware of her talent, her values and at some point lacked confidence. 

She stepped back and analyzed herself how she was determinant before and she started gaining more confidence, analyzing her likes, her strength, her worth and made it! 

 

Who is worthy?  we always take other's name, we never think it could be us! the reason behind this is, that we never appreciated ourselves in any situations that we have gone through in our life  and we are unaware about our own values, strength and how significant role we played in those situations. 

self worth - you believe in yourself, you fall in love with your height, weight, body, color, appearance, features, analyze yourself (In what you are good at), you are equal to your peer, stand for yourself, you have sense of professionalism, sense of opinion, explore yourself through which you are good at,  be unstoppable, be outspoken, whenever necessary make difference between right and wrong, engage yourself in work, enjoy every moment of work you do, believe that you will make it  and you are good enough!

In this competitive world, we have lost self worth, self esteem we always tag our peer saying "born talented","his/her efforts", and so on. we always wait for others to appreciate our work and if  we don't receive it we don't value our-self and that's how we become under-confident. Know your importance, your significance then you will know you are of greater value.

Lastly, always take a moment to appreciate yourself and know your worth, do not depend on others to appreciate you or make you feel good.

Happiness lies within! Explore yourself!

Web of lies

Some phases of everybody's life are same, like phase of growing from kindergarten to schooling. but what after that?  Do you think after schooling everything changes?

We always grow up watching our elders, our families, our surrounding people and so on. oh ok  let's just not blame anyone! we grow up watching what we see, what we hear, and most importantly  what we learn!  

As a child we are always eager or excited for "Life after school" and as always our tradition goes like opening account on social media i.e. "Facebook" is the most basic step or tradition which has always been followed by a child! creating new account with different name or real name, writing everything which we learned in our school for a good, proper, and effective bio! And try to capture the best photos and upload as a profile picture! we add our school friends, then our cousins and lastly our families and relatives. (some people will definitely not be same as mentioned above) at this point we may start adding new people which are way far form us! or may be from same city, same area, juniors, seniors and list goes on and on. We always find opportunity to go online through computer, siblings mobile phone, parents phone enjoy that 5/10 mins of being online! slowly we start expressing more to our virtual friends than our parents! we start finding them more close and try to justify how good we are, explore more about our likes and dislikes, about families, about what we do through out the day and so on. despite of not knowing the person to whom we share our secrets. we trust them because they revert back more interestingly!  

with the time come we start sharing pictures of us, our house, our family pictures, we share our address, our daily routine, about parents, siblings, our personal contact number. In beginning everything goes well that we trust the person more than anybody else!

Things goes wrong when unknown virtual friend  ask for our personal information. They may pretend to be good but their motive may affect you! at this stage children/teenager finds everything cool! It may possible that our personal information, pictures may get miss used, may be they can blackmail or they can come at our place and try to harm us! because at this point the person knows every information about us! there may be chances of miss using friendship and it can turn out to be worst thing ever! they can threat us, bully us, they may force you to steal money from own house, or they can take you out at unknown place, they may force you to do wrong things! At this point we become helpless because we never thought of being in such situation! Later on, after experiencing such phase of life we some how realize and get over this. After such experience of this so called "Cool Life" some may go through  depression, loneliness, bullied and so on. 

(Above experience may not be same for all :-))

At the end we grow up telling our younger siblings, our younger age group about how "cool life" turn into "web of lies"

                                                                            - CHAITALI M SHIDUNKAR 

We Are Just As Human!

It happens when you enter in new places like school,college, online i.e through social media.

This term know as BULLYING, TEASING, RAGGING etc.

Bad words, teasing, abusing verbally takes place continuously then it said to be verbal bullying. Hitting up, punishments those things comes under physical bullying. Online cheating, misuse Of pictures,making threats, calling names. comes under psychological bullying. 

How it happens? 

It happens when you are new to them. When you are weak in something, Physically not strong. Due to this they start teasing you,  treat you in a Wrong way, They can ask you to do something which is harmful. They can make you feel pressured.

How it affects? 

It affects on your behavior. Suddenly the person become low. It will affects to its confidence. He/she will get afraid of doing their work. They can face depression which will affects there professional and personal life. And they can face difficulties in making new friends or any new relation. And can make them to take worng steps like consuming alcohol and drugs or doing any criminal activities.

How to avoid this?

The best way to avoid is having conversation  with elders, family members.

If it happens in school or college victim must convey to teachers. 

Sharing to friends or close one can make you feel better and can take you out of the situations. 

If it takes place online then block the person, report it.

Bullying is very harmful physically as well as mentally. Always be alert and be strong enough to handle those situation. Always be confident and fight back.  

World needs love instead of hate. And if  anyone is suffering from bullying then you be the first person to heal their problem. 

Stay alert, safe and help eachother. 

                                - CHAITALI M SHIDUNKAR.