Hostel is like an uncharted territory for most, it needs a lot of exploring. But, those dorm years are the best times you’ll ever experience. Below are few survival hacks, that’ll see you through all days and, nights!

If you’re fussy about how food should taste, get tidbits from home. The home-made pickles and namkeen serve as a full course meal at times. They’re your new 4am friends.

Learn the art of ‘jugaad’ and sail through college life. It helps everywhere like, sharing a scooty, photostat of notes, Maggie in geyser water, etc.

Keep dustbins clean by lining them with polybags you get from the market. This is a good way to recycle.

Get rate-cutters and special offers for your phone and keep a check on the bills.

Make friends and double them up as family. They will be your shadows… eat, sleep, study and chill together, forever.

Life can test you. Relax. Live through hostel with the ‘Never-Say-Die’ attitude. You’re not defeated until you back out.

Iron your clothes with a pot filled with hot water, it works exactly like an iron!

If you’re lazy and hate to do the dishes, wrap a plastic sheet over your utensils, eat your food and then throw the plastic away.