Introduction:
Being a student, we are told that student age is the golden age of a person's life. This golden age, as we are provided with it, doesn't hold all the goods in it. As a student we are faced with all the different challenges of life like any other struggling person would face. Then why call it a golden age? It's because of the experiences that we get to go through being a student that no one else does. Studying in an institute getting to know people with mutual interests and goals in life and working under a superior who will help us guide to the aim of our life, this doesn't happen in any other aspect of life where one gets to meet so many people who are trying for the same thing.
It is through these facets of the golden age that we get to learn so many things as a student. We are provided different challenges working as an individual and managing work in a group. The friendship that we have and how it is put at test when the same pals get to be rivals of each other.
In this report I'm discussing all those aspects that we go through in our life when we are going through the phase of the student age. What I went through in my last year of being a student and whatever I learned and plan to learn in the future from the mistakes I made in the past year.
As An Individual:
I learned that while working as an individual has its advantages, it also has some disadvantage. Nothing is perfect and doesn't come with all pros. When I mention the pros for working as an individual I would foremost like to mention that when one is working alone, they have all the authority to themselves. They can make decisions and wouldn't have to argue with anyone about following them. They are the leader and they are the follower. They set their own rules and then act upon them according to their desires. They don't have to wait for anyone and individual working gives a sense of independence to them and when they achieve something the achievement is all theirs. They can proudly receive what they achieved and keep it to themselves. It's all theirs. It's like being the only child of a family where you get all the toys and don't have to share them with anyone.
On the other hand, the cons that one faces in this part of life are that they have no one to motivate them. It sometimes feels like a burden when all the costs are on them and they don't have anyone to share their ideas with to make them better by brainstorming with other people. One would alone be responsible for any actions they take and then may regret them if something goes wrong when they won't have anyone to share the blame with.
As A Group Or Team:
When we're talking about group work most people only see the drawbacks you have when you're working together with other people which would be that when multiple minds are working together you are bound to have conflicts in your ideas. Brainstorming may provide you many ideas to work on but the fight on leadership is always there when good minds are working together. Who gets to be the leader? Who gets to decide everything? This mostly happens where there are people working in a team and all those people hold that sense of leadership. One has to wait for their partners to finish their work so that their work may be considered completed as well because when in a team you are bound to be dependent on your partners or co-workers.
But as mentioned before nothing is always with all cons or pros. The good side of team working is that your communication skills get polished. One gets to have so many minds to work together on the same thing to get better ideas than when working alone, gets to share the cost and sense of responsibility and is motivated when they see others working on the same thing they find themselves procrastinating on. When the group achieves success the excitement is indefinable on how the success is supposed to be a shared prize and when the members hold a sense of sharing it can prove to be a good thing.
Usually it all depends on the type of people you are working with. If you have good minds working with you the success can prove an excellent achievement and if individual minds are working as a team then they may prove to make the worst out of their achievement by asking for their share of the prize and conflicts take place.
Conflicts and Rivalry:
In my past year of life I learned how friendship can be put to test in this said golden age. How conflicts and rivalry take place and how you lose something and then learn to endure the loss and move along. It mainly all happens because of the competition that we are given as students that friends start sharing a sense of rivalry for each other. Because of this competition put in between, everyone is caught up in a race to leave the other behind, to prove their selves better, to gain what everyone is trying for. Having so many people to try for the same goal one realizes how hard life can prove to be, how hard winning can be even for the winner. When one realizes how his gain resulted in someone else's loss it is not satisfying enough seeing the one who lost was someone who was dear to you. In this race for success in life we learn how worldly relations come to end with the passage of time when you keep trying for yourself. We learn we are selfish beings but we also realize that it's not something we should hate ourselves for. Human race has always tried to prove itself better among its fellows just to get the satisfaction of knowing they did it. This is the race of being better, race of winning between the curious minds we have as humans.
Conclusion:
This is all we face in our student life and are taught how to cope with humanity that arises within us for others. We are taught to be professionals and put those feelings aside to learn the ways of making ourselves better. To win that race in which thousands participated along us. How to put forth the best of us and what can prove to be better for us and how we can the best of that better.
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