1. You learn to face emergency situations
Emergency situations happen a lot in hostel life, waking up 5 minutes before the class is the most common one. You simply don't panic when the water stops suddenly during a bath, a hosteler knows exactly what to do in such situations.
2. The skill of adjustment
This is one of the biggest advantages of living in a hostel. You will learn to adjust with different situations and different kinds of people from varied cultural backgrounds.
3. You can sleep literally anywhere
Having lived in a hostel, you learn to sleep under conditions that you normally wouldn't. Bright lights on, loud music playing or even when the meteor hits, you sleep and sleep like it's no big deal.
4. You know life is all about taking 'Risks'
Having lived in a hostel, chances are you have tried many things that you thought you wouldn't even dare to try. Be it bringing alcohol into the hostel or sneaking out at night, you've done crazier things than this.
5. You learned a new language
Living in a hostel far away from your place, it's likely that the language spoken in that place isn't your own. Not only would you have mastered the language by the end of hostel life, you now know all the slang terms and swear words of the place by heart.
6. You learn the art of sharing
What's yours is mine is the slogan of hostel life. Sharing and helping each other is something that hostel life definitely taught us. You will end up sharing everything from food to notes and clothes to shoes.
7. Family is not always blood related
The moment you get accustomed to the hostel life, your friends become the family. There is hardly any distance between the hostel friends. You live, eat and spend your spare time together. You feel free to share your biggest secrets with them and can talk about anything under the sun. This teaches you that there can be families apart from your family.
8. Learning to be independent
Being on your own, you will have to manage your expenses, wash your own clothes, keep your valuable things safe and watch out for yourself. It doesn't matter if you were depending on your parents for the silliest of things before, hostel life will transform you into an independent person with skill and confidence to do it all.
9. Freedom at its finest
Hostel life opens up a whole new level of freedom to you. The good thing is, you can use this freedom and flexibility to pursue things you couldn't have done at home.
10.There's nothing like home-cooked food
Remember how you always preferred eating out to having the lunch or dinner at home? Once you start living in a hostel, you will realise that there's nothing better than home-cooked food and will even start missing it. All credits to this realisation goes to the hostel 'mess'.
No matter how hellish the hostel life seems to be while you're in it, you will miss that amazing stage of life at some point. The midnight feasts you used to have, the time spent with your friends, weekends and hostel parties during which the craziest things always happened are a few of the great memories you'll cherish from the hostel life.