Summary of the event- 

Career Development Centre at IMS Ghaziabad (University Courses Campus) organized a Buddy Mentoring Session on the topic “Navigating through college life” on November 20th, 2023. The session was specifically planned to dwell deeper into this area and ponder upon the concept of balancing academics, extracurricular and better management of time. Prof. Swati Tyagi, began the session by welcoming the participants and the resource person Ms. Ojaswita Pandey. 

Ms. Ojaswita Pandey led this interactive session and shared valuable insights on the subject through various examples and instances from real life. She emphasized that balancing time among academics, extracurriculars is crucial. Time management involves practicing with techniques, assessing activity benefits, and avoiding extremes. Approaching life goals requires deliberation, rational decisions, self-awareness, and learning from others' mistakes. She also highlighted that identifying interests, desired skills, and excelling at self-management for learning new things are essential in college life. During the interactive session, participants got the opportunity to learn how they can manage their time, academics and extracurricular.

In the end, Dr. Deepali Monga, Head – MDP Cell presented the resource person with a certificate & a memento as a token of gratitude. Prof. Tyagi gave the vote of thanks to the resource person and all the participants and congratulated everyone for organizing such informative session which was very well received by the participants.

Learning outcome-

Participants got to know the following things-

• Effective Time Management: Practice and techniques to aid in optimizing time.
• Deliberate Decision-Making: Being deliberate, rational, and self-aware fosters better life choices.
• Purposeful Learning: Identifying interests, desired skills, and self-management for learning new things ensures a fulfilling college experience. 

   Name & Signature of the Faculty

Prof. Swati Tyagi