7 Top Ways Students’ Hostel Life Can Improve Your Personality

A ‘hostel life’ can improve personalities, and teach students great things in life that they can never forget. Let us see, how.

Teaches Time

If it is a school or college hostel, ‘timing’ is a must.

There is a set time for waking up, breakfast, studies, relaxation, meals and going to bed, which students simply have to maintain.

This helps not only their physical well-being by keeping them healthy, but also their personalities. Very early in life, they learn to respect, value and adhere to time. This makes them learn

• Punctuality
• Utilization of Time
• Respecting own and others’ time

Teaches Discipline

Discipline is something each student living in a hostel has to maintain. They have to

• Follow set ‘timings’
• Adhere to rules and regulations
• Be at their best behavior at all times

Students learn how to follow set rules at all times, which helps them to become responsible, law-abiding citizens, on growing up.

Discipline also ensures that the personality of a student develops strong, sure and secure.

Teaches Manners

Living in a hostel, students have to maintain manners at all times.

They have to dress, speak and eat in the best way possible, and this becomes a habit with them.

On growing up, such students maintain their good manners always. They are courteous, considerate, tidy, soft-spoken and have impeccable table manners.

Teaches Decision-making

Living in a hostel, students often have to make decisions, and quick. They have to also make sure that their decisions are good for both them, and others.

This teaches young boys and girls to think quick and correct. For example:

If one student finds another injured, what does s/he do? Panic? Cry? Try to help? Get help from a grown up? In hostels, students are often advised to get help from a grown up or authorized person, after doing their best to help their hostel-mates by taking the best care of them and the situation, at that moment. This training teaches them never to panic, cry or run away. On growing up, they very often know which aid to organize for which situation, and what best to do, next.

They remain calm and composed and able to think clearly, in difficult situations.

Teaches Money Management

Many students live on a limited budget, while staying at a hostel. They are at times not allowed to have access to money too often, or much. Under such circumstances, they learn very well how to

• Plan their budget
• Spend wisely
• Save money
• Guard money

Invaluable lessons in life that they hardly ever forget. You shall rarely find such people spending unnecessarily, even later in life, when they are earning handsomely and are free to spend as much as they want to. These individuals learn how to value money.

Teaches being Considerate

We cannot make a noise when our roommates are trying to sleep or study.

I need to move aside and let another one of us take a bath first, because her class begins before mine and she needs to reach college earlier.

We need to share the food at the table with all seated at it; therefore none of us can take too long or too much to eat, so as not to be inconsiderate towards others.

We need to shut our story book and switch the light off, because someone else cannot sleep with the light on.

These are things we learn in a hostel, and practice for the rest of our lives.

We become more considerate towards all around us; from parents, siblings, neighbours to friends and colleagues.

Teaches Adjusting with people and situations

Hostel life teaches students to adjust with all kinds of people, and situations.

It is a fact that hostel is very different from home. Even if a child is pampered all the time while at home, s/he has to do her/his own work in the hostel, share space and things with others and behave well with everyone, at all times.

Upon growing up, this trait remains and such people often turn out to be excellent people to work with.

These are some of the excellent things that a hostel life can teach students that shape their personalities positively, to benefit them at all times to come.