WHY UNIVERSITY IS AN ESCAPE FOR TODAY’S GENERATION?

This topic is near to my heart plus it suits the situation very well. The year 2020 brought that disaster named Corona that moved the world upside down. From the life of an individual to the life of family and to the stability of the country, that virus disturb everything. Not a single person helps him/herself passed that situation unaffected. Some of us are mentally disturbed, some are financially, and some are physically. Just like every institution of life, how could our education system subsist? I am a university student. The day when government announced the lockdown, we had our 1st final term paper. We all were confused whether we would prepare for next paper or not. But that lockdown happened to be last longer, too long that even a year has passed, we are still in our homes learning on our mobile phones and laptops. 

Why am I complaining? Am I not afraid of corona? Yes, I am afraid of corona, but I am confused and disturbed by all this situation going on around me. Every day we have news about number of patients increasing to this and that. But at the same time people are wandering around me Allhamdullilah uninfected and without masks. Hotels, restaurants, shadi halls and even parks are stuffed with people, are they not afraid? Yes, they are. But they at the same time they all know that life goes on no matter what. We must take precautionary measures to survive this pandemic. Lock yourself to some place is never going to be a solution.

My question is, when everything is taking back their original positions and form then why not universities? Most of our private universities have started their daily physical classes. Then why we are still on online mode? HEC has already announced that its up to universities whether they start their physical mode or not? Then what is the delay?
It has been a year since my daily routine has been a catastrophe. Every morning I wake up with links, which is too frustrating. That we must face mobile screens early in the morning that cause disturbance the whole day. Online study is a problem in the hundreds and thousands of ways for me. Sometimes we have connection issues. Sometime our teachers have that same issue or some other issues as well. Sometimes we have surprised classes, in sense that teacher come up with a link when it’s convenient for them and when we got to know about the link that link has already expired. This is not a single day issue. We have been facing these issues from the very start.

Why university is an escape? We all in that phase of our lives where we gave much importance to our peer group as compared to our families, why. We all are in the transition phase where we need someone to share. Very few students of our age share with their parents, mostly we have our friends as our secret keeper. We feel relax after talking to them. At the same time, we have diversified things to stress on. Like we are in a struggling phase where we are keep stressing our things that belongs to our future like job, family, relationships, study, and marriage. For this we need an environment that suits us. University gives us that feel. We have people there that matches our mindset. We can talk about things that we felt confused. We have routine, proper routine, where we know that these 8 or 9 hours are dedicated to my studies, my friends, and my teachers. University is not just a place to study. It is a museum for students. Where we discover new things. Things that belong to our past plus that led us to our future. That’s why university is an escape for me and for a lot of students of my age.

I have a question here. I have known many people asking me about why I am not enjoying staying at home, taking online classes? Why do I desperately want to go back to university? The answer is, because I enjoy getting up early, going to university, taking scheduled classes and then go back to home when its time. I like that routine of mine. I cannot enjoy sitting idly at home seeing my university days passing by. I love to enjoy every single phase of my life. I had enjoyed my school and college life. And now I want to enjoy my university life to full.