Goodbye to you, my trusted friend

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Slam books may seem passé for college students. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not going to write about their memories when college season is coming to an end. Students who are graduating from college are making scrap books or keeping dairies and giving it to their friends and classmates for them to write in it. BSc graduate Meghna Das made a scrapbook a month before graduating. “I just took an empty notebook and stuck a lot of photos in it. I wanted my friends to write down a memory of something we’d done together or at least sign in it. I printed out favourite pictures of them together,” she says. Most of her friends are from outside Bengaluru, some are from places like Maldives, Tanzania and the Middle East. So, she wanted to make sure to get these people to write in her book as she won’t be able to keep in touch with them properly, once they leave the city. “Everybody in my class was doing it. Some people got stacks of coloured paper, gave one sheet to each friend and said ‘do whatever you like with it’. They then got it spiral bound,” shares Meghna.
For Anusha B., who is graduating from RVCE, a scrapbook came as a surprise gift from her buddies. “This will be the perfect way for me to carry memories and thoughts of my friends. After our exams, I will ask them to write,” she says.
Another student who made her college mates write in her scrap book during the last days of college is Madhushree B.N. The environmental science graduate, says, “I have a huge collection of pictures taken at different places like the class, canteen, by the drive etc. I put together a few pictures, especially for those who are not from Bengaluru ‘cos they won’t come back to India anytime soon. I asked them to write memories of the time we spent together,” says Madhu. Fifteen days before the final exams is when she gave out her scrapbook to students from different streams. She was very surprised by the stuff that they wrote in her book. “They had stuck tickets of the movies that we had gone for. They even stuck pictures and cartoons of teachers. They were really creative. Whenever I open my 12th grade scrapbook, I find the stuff that people had written so sweet,” says Madhu.
So make your pals write in your diary/ scrapbook. Who knows, maybe one day when you’re feeling low, all you will need to do is open this book to lift your spirit up.