To First Year Students

Welcome, my dear friends. Welcome to the College of Science and Technology. It is indeed a great pleasure for me to see all young and energetic fresh ladies and gentlemen walking to and fro. Welcome once again. 

I want to share something that is relevant and you should know being a fresher in the college. Let me declare to you that I am not responsible for bluffing or a responsible person to let you know what sometimes you may think, 'It is mere rubbish, and I know how to act.' 

I know almost every high school friend these days dreams of coming to CST. Courses offered are more or less the same as what you want to pursue through government scholarships pertaining to technical trainings and studies. Moreover, the job market is good as compared to graduates from outside the country. It is indeed the place where you can sigh for the hard work that you have put in. 

Many of you have come here out of necessity and a few out of luxury. Every parent wants to see his/her son/daughter become either an engineer or a doctor. For the underprivileged parent like me, it was my necessity to get admitted here and support my parents and long chain of relatives. And for those well-off, it is their luxury to become an engineer. My dear friends inspire you and motivate you to become good engineers. 

 

When I was in my first year, our previous director was worried for when the College of Science and Technology (CST) is said to turn out to be the College of Severe Tension (CST). It was like a virus among students, and it went viral to those coming as first-years, and I know you are aware of it. Getting a nineties or eighties or seventies vibe in high school and expecting the same isn’t possible. Impossible because it is technical. I don’t mean someone should be a genius like Einstein; rather, it is your logical power to get work done and be an exigent student, and I know you all were toppers in school. Everything counts for hard work. You have a mountain to climb up. 

I know many of you have already chosen the narrow conduit, ‘what to do.' It is always great to know beforehand what you are going to do. It is the truth in itself to enlighten yourself about what you are going to do and what you are going to be. Now you have come out from the narrow conduit, and it is for you that you need to again get in the sharp conduit of ‘how to do.' Every possible and expected guidance and care will be given. The way that you need to go will be vividly shown, adorned with the exigent character that you should not forget to nurture. It is in your hand as to how to manage yourself. 

You can’t expect the next four years to be like the last two years in your high school. Everyone is treated as an adult. No one will come forcing you to do what needs to be done for your own goodness. You are the adult who needs to be careful to maintain the journey and fuel it accordingly. It will be your own dignity that needs to raise your head held high to justify that college life is a golden life. It is your responsibility to get transformed from a lazy, sluggish caterpillar to a beautiful and lovable butterfly. And hope that transformation will be each and everyone’s definition of considering college life a golden life. 

Anywhere you go and dwell, there are assured rules and regulations that you need to abide by. The difference and privilege of seniority will be there. If you cannot align with the universally expected norms, it is your own stupidity. No senior will rag on you or scold you. It is their duty to remind you if you step away from your desired manner. Don’t feel bad; instead accept it as good, and you should not forget that your turn will come to do the same as a perceptive senior. 

So, lastly, where the knowledge is free; where the seniors aren't dominant; where you will learn to attain the ultimate joy of golden college life as caterpillars and worship to fly away as beautiful butterflies, I once more welcome you to the College of Science and Technology.

Thank you!! Be happy!!