My first week in MCRC

My valley of dreams.

My first encounter with Jamia mass communication and research centre (MCRC) was when I was in the first year of my graduation. I came here as a talent of one of the former student who was working on her final project. And since then I’ve been a regular visitor of MCRC.

But honestly speaking things have changed drastically, the moment my role has changed in the institution i.e. from being a talent of a production to a regular student of the centre.

I still remember that was 20^th July when the final results of the entrance test was out, and I was quite surprised after finding my name on the list because one of ma friend who also applied for the course could not get through this and I was expecting him on the list.

I was happy on getting through it, and also excited about the life which was waiting for me in the centre’s premises. But believe me it has never been that easy as it seemed from outside.

Our orientation started on 12^th august and we had a three days orientation programme. The initial three days were very interesting and knowledge based and motivational. The talks given by professor Yashpal, Seema Quidwai were quite interesting and motivating. The talks given by various others prominent journalists helped me a lot to make up my mind for this course.

But as soon as our classes started it got a bit chaotic. Sometime it was an overdose of information and knowledge for me as I graduated in a completely different stream i.e. Social Work, so I personally had to face a lot of problems in understanding the technical stuffs basically of online and photojournalism.

I am a kind of person who spends most of his time in the field or with my friends. But the hectic schedule of 9:30am to 5:30pm, which has almost killed my social life. Friends have started complaining and sarcastically call me “Bada Aadmi”.

But I am trying to learn time management as well as the risk management although I am finding it gigantic. But I’ve still not lost hope and am expecting a great year ahead.