Relax, a better future awaits

Students today seem burdened by the pandemic. But a few simple changes in daily life and engagement in techrelated contests can take most of their worries away

- Mona Bharadwaj

“The best way out is always through” goes a saying by Robert Frost which always bewildered me until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as I could see this saying coming true.

CULTURALLY, WE ARE GROOMED TO FOLLOW THE HERD AND RACE AGAINST TIMELINES. BUT WE MUST REALISE THAT AT TIMES WE NEED TO THINK BEFORE FOLLOWING EVERYONE ELSE.

In these tough times, I see students enduring delayed start of courses, online lectures and labs, multiple parallel pressures to get to the end of the semester and make up for the time lost when no classes were held. If you are a student and reading this, have you stopped to think why is it even needed to become part of a race and take everything head on? Culturally, we are groomed to follow the herd and race against timelines right from the start, which does help when we get onto jobs or take on anything later in life. But what we don’t realise is that there are times when we need to sit back and think before we start to follow what everyone else is doing. I certainly have been guilty of being one of those who race against time to finish everything that is expected of them. Though late, I did make some really simple shifts which have helped me and I will cover some of those in this article. I will also share my experiences of what I see has helped students around me in getting prepared for a better future. So here are my top five picks on what could help.