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This is what we all get to hear from our parents whenever we get a lovely love letter named ' grade sheet' from our universities. Indeed our extra curricular activities are always blamed for whatever negative happens to us, be it related or not.

But is it always so that our free activities are responsible or is it something else? Super active club members passionate about what you do will surely disagree with me. After all I can absolutely understand as I once belonged to your group.

It is the first day at university and we step into campus with lots and lots of flowery wish to make new friends. What we instead see is some unknown good looking faces that we would take the pleasure to look at but rethink so as not to be called fools. As days go on, we feel alone and with a hope to make new friends, we are attracted to the dazzling recruitment posters. Guided by our interest, we then join cultural club, debate club, cine and drama club, photography club and many more. Those like me, we join all of them!

So here goes our dedication into clubs and then we feel like being kings and queens. Because we realize, we know more people than any other regular students. After all why wouldn't we! We feel proud to be associated with clubs.

Days parades toward harder courses as we fly higher into club activities and thus our CGPA falls down. Of course there are brilliant time managers who are equally present everywhere keeping CGPA in a steep increasing curve. But for the rest of us, we believe in learning by doing and for that matter, we are mostly suffering from acute decreased CGPA mania!

Extra curricular activities are very important in a student's life. In today's world nobody is judged only by CGPA but also by individual learning and this is where all extra curricular activities come into play. But as super dedicated club members, we feel we would rather miss classes, quizzes, mid-terms than club meetings, conferences and thus journey towards decreasing results begin.

My dad always asked me, when do you actually study, or to be precise, do you even study as a part of your regular activity? Like the question came, I used to say proudly, 'I do manage time and after all I'm responsible'.

But in reality what happens with most of us is that we end up studying just one hour before exams! Now I know how generous my parents are that they allowed me to stay at home even after receiving horrible grade sheets semester after semester!

To my greatest knowledge, this is the same scenario in most of our friends' home also. Though we hide ourselves for couple of days when our grade sheets knock our doors, but now it's high time that we all realize our responsibilities. Speaking to some of the faculties and students, the most common solution that came up was managing time, commitment and concentration.

Even if we study for 1 hour, let this one hour be as solid as 3 hours or more. Let us not miss important classes. Because, to our utter surprise, class lectures do effect us positively. Let us also have commitment to ourselves that no matter how tough it is to manage time, we'll manage time and be done with our studies in shortest time.

Hoping for a better life, we should all manage our time properly. I can't be asking you to drop yourself from all works. Just that you continue to keep a good CGPA. So by the time we would graduate, we'll have a handsome CGPA and also have some great friendships to cheer about.

Those like me, who love their job more than their studies, I should warn you all that never fall in love with your job, or else you'll keep on loving it and hating you studies. But hey isn't life all about hating and loving?

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