KATHMANDU: Associate Prof Dr Dipak Bahadur Bhandari is the former Assistant Dean/Dean/Registrar of Pokhara University, Pokhara. It’s been 15 years, Prof Dr Bhandari has dedicated his life to the educational sector and currently is busy teaching at School of Business, Pokhara University, Pokhara. He has penned nine books including Financial Institute and Market, The Financial System and Economy, Portpolio Management. He also contributes in several national and international journals. In year 2010 (2067 BS) he was honoured with Bidhyabhusan Padak 'Ka' from President Dr Ram Baran Yadav. He plans to continue to work for the development of academic and financial sector of Nepal. Here he gets nostalgic about his college days

MY ALMA MATER(S)

I completed BBS from Baneshwor Campus, Baneshwor in 1998, MBS in 2001 from Central Department of Management, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur and PhD in 2009 from Birmingham School of Business, England.

COURSES STUDIED

I studied Finance and Financial Development and Economic Growth.

COLLEGE LIFE

College life is a period that determines and gives direction to one’s future career.

BEST OF COLLEGE LIFE

Studying and reading books was the best of my college life.

LASTING MEMORIES

I was a bookworm and I never participated in any extra activities or competitions. In a college picnic, I got the part to entertain my friends and for entertainment I sang numerous folk songs. After that day my friends, who believed I was not able to do anything except study, told me that I was dynamic at other things as well.

LESSON LEARNT

I learnt about life and what to do in life. Also I learnt the value of time and how to utilise it properly.

WORDS TO HEED

Internet has made it possible to know about anything anywhere. In comparison to our generation's students, today’s students have lot of opportunities and contemporary time is the golden period for students where with hard work and discipline nothing is impossible. Know your vision and have dreams as dreams are the seed of future that give you your direction for future career. Learn soft skills as it takes time to gain those soft skills. And to be successful, academic degree has 27 per cent role while soft skill has 73 per cent role.

HOW TO ACE IN COLLEGE

Manage you time and be rigid about when to enjoy and when to study. Utilise your brain properly and always maintain discipline not only that you need to respect others but maintain discipline in your eating habit, sleeping habit and so on.