"How do you manage your activities along with your studies?" -- This was the question asked by my peers as well as the students during the camp. -- Here is the answer:
I divided my activities into 2 spheres:
I divided my activities into 2 spheres:
- Academic
- Science is Fun
- Amateur Physics and Astro Club -- I would like to club my current "Teaching Assistant" Job with this.
- Olympians for Social Cause
- Non - Academic
If you see majority of my activity revolves around "Science". I named it differently but essentially the activity that happens is -- "Learning, Sharing and Loads of Innovation".
And all the more the activities happen as "Group" and I coordinate. The the synergy the team creates is the root cause for the success of all of this rather than me. If you see that 1+1 > 2 then it becomes synergistic.
If you closely look for each activity I have volunteers
- OSC has 30+ volunteers on Mathematics & Science. -- The volunteers also see a value add for them by teaching
- They improve their communication skills
- By explaining the topic to others they retain it permanently and
- in the process of making the concept clear to others they themselves lot of times become clear about the topics
- Science is Fun -- This activity grown over a period of time w.r.t. number of students, every year 2 new volunteers from my peers or students also come to my native place. They do a lot of brain storming and prepare the experiments along with me. -- The work is essentially shared again. :)
- SAAD -- Anyway runs with the help of the fraternity and its run for their own good..
And all the more the faith and belief of Teachers on me and the support they give in my activities.
What I do is essentially --
- Give Vision
- Encourage and inspire the team
- Hold the team in cohesion
- Felicitate from the School Admin or Institution with my contacts the required help
- Passion -- Deep love towards whatever you undertake
- Persistence -- To see any tangible results you need to wait for considerable time and believe in yourself that the desired change would come
- Attitude -- This is perhaps the most important thing -- If your intent is correct and you want to help others you will get help from "ALL" the sources. God will always be there to lend his hand if we genuinely
- Time Management -- :Living in Quadrant II as Stephen R Covey said.
And I do not treat all the activities separately as lot of people think.. In fact the OSC fund raising happens some times in the "Astro Class" because of an inspired student. And we did see incidents the students from Astro class also becoming active participants in other activities too..
Its just the belief in "Common Good" and "Collective Effort" that is making the things happen.
Let me know your thoughts about this post I 'm willing to listen.
