Types of Students You Find In A College

I still remember the greatest words of wisdom Mr. Ram Prakash Babulal used to say to me.. “You need the identity card to enter into the college, but you create your identity in that college.” Who Ram Prakash? Arre, the watchman chacha of my college yaar. Okeyy, jokes apart, isn’t college actually a life altering experience for most of us in both positive and negative connotations. And while most of us maange to find ourselves in those 3 years, there are also a gazillion others who influence us in crazy ways possible.

While entering into the university for the first time can seem like a lost Aamir Khan from PK looking for his remotwa, college life overall is a one-in-a-lifetime-experience full of crazy people all around that we cannot unsee. From the teacher's favourite to the social butterflies, from lovey-dovey to “Aj class bunk kare kya?”, we have different varieties of species in every institute that make our days so fun and memorable. Ready to explore what other alien range of students you find in a college? Drum roll!!!!!!! Then, let’s go...

1. Nerd alert

The one who probably knows the value of Pi until 119 decimals but doesn’t know the name of the hot guy or girl sitting beside. Some people, including Google, think that a nerd is “a foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious”, but I beg to differ here My Lord! After all, hasn’t our favourite nerd aka Sheldon Cooper already clarified that, "I'm Not Crazy. My Mother Had Me Tested." So, whose side are you on? #Nerd Alert

2. Wanna-be nerds

Ugh, did I just bring some terrible memories back? We all have known one of this kind, haven’t we? They are basically the parrots that repeat every word the professor teaches and would miss no chance to seek attention in a class full of students. This group of people have absolutely no pertinent question to ask but they need to pretend to know stuff and this is their dirty trick to make their presence felt.

3. Sleepy head

The one who only comes to class to sleep. You will probably find them on the second last bench leaning against the wall, trying to keep their heads straight and eyes open with utter difficulty. Guess they take “good sleep increases brain power” way too seriously. While the teacher might be busy teaching about Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Earth, they are in their own starry world humming “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”..But I mean like fun people..

4. Forever Borrowers aka “thode paise dede yaar”

The one who took money from you back in Hadean, I mean when the Earth was starting to evolve around 4.56 billion year ago. It has been over four point five six stupid billion years but did we get our money back? Any of you?? And because someone had to say it, let me be the one to take up for the team..Forget it!!! Your money is gone!! You are neverrrrr getting it back.

5. Social butterfly (More like, social eagles?)

These are the ones often called fake instagram influencers who will put every single second of their life from their morning routine to their shitting time on social media. Their life might be as boring as the dumb lecture you just bunked, but the way they portray it with 8796698 filters is an art. An art that not many of us know about. You will find them usually in the groups of 3 reminding you often of Pooooo from K3G and her “besties” and will have loads of naive first-years going ga ga over their every word. But let’s not be harsh, we love some beauty and drama in our lives, don’t we?

6. ‘Bhai sab kar dega, tu chill kar, #Yoo Bro’

That one person who genuinely loves to help everyone and actually manages to pull off a lot of crazy stuff. How?? No one ever knows...They are the ones who put extra effort to celebrate everyone’s birthday, is the event manager at all occasions and is constantly found convincing professors on cancelling the class for some or other college function. These are our favourite types, aren’t they?

7. Forever Absentee aka ‘Bhai, proxy laga de’

And finally, the one who never comes to the class or college no matter what. The last you saw him was probably at the freshers’ party and I bet, the next time you are going to see him will be on the farewell day. Yep, these people exist. How do they manage their attendance? Um, connect the dots, you will get it yourself.

8. Love birds

Every college has its share of lovey dovey couples that everyone knows about, including professors. But what is college life without love, right? To all the single ones out there who never even got to ask someone out on a date, it’s ok, you have my sympathy lonely friends. This couple is like the cheese burst pizza with extra cheese or the death by chocolate ice cream with chocolate syrup on top may be?? What I mean is they are always extra into each other, the inseparables that are lost humming to the tunes of “Pehla nasha, pehla khumar”

9. Chugalkhor-Gossip Girl

“You can definitely trust me on this one, your secrets are safe with me”.

“Bro, I cannot recall what is the name of my boyfriend, do you really think I am capable of remembering your secret? Duh! Come on, tell me what is it?”

Do these words sound familiar to you? Do not, I repeat, do not buy it. I am just warning you. If you do not trust me, you may see your story spread through the college faster than the current UK variant of Coronavirus..At your own risk my friend, coz you have been warned...

10. The Invisible man

Yesss, the one who sits at the same exact spot every single day but you may have hardly ever noticed him. Since not everyone is looking for the spotlight, these introverts or minding their own business in their own little world kind are often found in the library between their books. Or, if you ever look around when you are having coffee in the cafeteria with your group, you would find that one person eating alone while simultaneously balancing a book on their knee..So, the next time you see someone like that sitting alone, don;t be rude, go say hello to them and walk away because they hate invasion of their personal space you see...

So if you are going to join college sometime soon, I really hope you get to experience each one of the kind we just discussed and a lot more, because I certainly did and man, it really was fun!. However, if you are someone who has graduated from college and was just reminiscing the golden old days, I dedicate the “Memories” song here for you..