What makes studying easy and fun? Xerox, of course!

A typical student life, read college student life, is incomplete without Xerox. The wonder invention that allows anything on a paper to get photocopied, Xerox is what saves the life of an Indian college student. An angel saviour who doesn’t allow the guilt of bunking classes and not getting notes sink in, Xerox is an integral of an Indian college student.

When I took admission in college for my Graduation course, everyone around told me, now it’s the time to enjoy life. There’s a hidden pleasure in bunking classes, going for movies and struggling to gather notes at the end of the semesters. However, I didn’t indulge in all these things completely and was one of the most obedient students. J

Xerox or photocopy is probably a technology that has contributed the most to a student than anyone else. Books, notes, letters, documents, all can be kept safe if they are photocopied. In colleges, especially in Kolkata, students are still taught and spoon fed with notes that only needs to be mugged up and written back on the examination paper. It doesn’t matter whether he or she understood what was written there on the notes. And that somehow encourages these students to have a parallel life of fun and frolic along with studies (which we hardly get to enjoy in our school days!).

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Given my clear handwriting even while taking notes and attending classes religiously, I was the student whose notebooks got photocopied for the entire class. And the rates were as reasonable as 35p to 50p per page. So an entire notebook or a book or a few pages, none seemed difficult to be kept with us. And the best part was the hunt for the best Xerox shop who would offer the best rate, will arrange the sheets without any mixing up and the print quality is good. So, vendor management skills started from there itself.

We owe it to Xerox shops and at one point of time, we had also devised a business plan of opening up a Xerox shop near our college and put a competitive rate. A joint investment and complete profit sharing model.