So, you’ve decided to pursue Company Secretaryship — the course that sounds like you’ll just be answering calls and drafting emails. But oh, how wonderfully wrong that assumption is.
Welcome to CS college life, where words like memorandum, compliance, and ROC filings become more frequent in your vocabulary than “weekend plans.”
“The law may not sleep, but a CS student definitely doesn’t.”
Let’s dive into what life really looks like when you’re chasing this semi-glamorous, heavily legal, and proudly Indian professional course.
📚 Executive Level: The Honeymoon Phase (with fine print)
In the beginning, everything feels new and exciting.
- You buy those thick, pastel ICSI books like they’re magical scrolls.
- You’re introduced to Company Law, Tax Law, and Economic & Commercial Laws – which all sound fancy… until you realise it means reading the Companies Act, 2013 line by painful line.
- Your college friends are chilling, but you’re cross-checking section numbers for fun (or fear).
Life outside class? Optional. MCQs inside class? Endless.
📘 Professional Level: The Survival Saga
If the executive stage was a steep hill, Professional level is Mount Everest — and guess what, there’s no sherpa.
- Welcome to subjects like Drafting, Governance, Secretarial Audit — where even your dreams come with footnotes.
- Your calendar starts looking like a compliance tracker — filled with deadlines, reminders, and panic scribbles.
- You start understanding legal jargon better than your local lawyer uncle.
And don’t even mention open book exams — where the book is open, but the brain still blanks out.
🧑💼 Internships: Real Work Begins (and so do real emails)
CS internships (a.k.a. management training) are where you swap your pens for practicals.
- You draft resolutions, attend board meetings (quietly, but with purpose), and deal with actual filings.
- You get introduced to the glorious world of MCA Portal – where one click can crash your hope.
- Your boss says “Just make a compliance checklist,” and you realise it’s not just ticking boxes — it’s decoding legislation.
Here’s the twist: You start enjoying it. Because now you’re doing what others pretend to understand.
🎓 The College Balancing Act
Being a CS student in college is like juggling legal books on a tightrope:
- College life exists, but barely.
- While others are attending fests, you’re attending virtual lectures with 2x speed and 3x anxiety.
- Your classmates think you’ve vanished. You’re just buried under the SEBI LODR Regulations.
But on the bright side, you can now file annual returns and manage your own tax — before your friends even know PAN isn’t a frying utensil.
🧠 The Life Skills No One Tells You About
Studying CS doesn’t just give you legal knowledge. It turns you into a:
- Deadline ninja – You know how to meet them, beat them, and occasionally cry about them.
- Documentation king/queen – If there’s a format, you’ve memorised it.
- Research expert – If it’s in the Companies Act, you’ll find it faster than Google.
You also get an amazing ability to survive on caffeine, last-minute revisions, and hope.
🤝 Friends? Social Life? Ha!
- College events are a luxury.
- Your friend circle slowly narrows down to your study group, that one senior who passed, and the ICSI helpline executive.
- But you build strong connections — because no one else understands the pain of interpreting Rule 8A like your fellow CS aspirants.
🏁 The Finish Line (And New Beginnings)
When you finally clear all modules, complete your training, and add CS before your name — it’s not just a title.
It’s a testimony to the late nights, tough exams, constant learning, and those moments where you wanted to give up but didn’t.
Being a Company Secretary isn’t just a profession — it’s a lifestyle. One that begins in college but shapes your whole career.
Final Thought
College life as a CS student isn’t about attending every party or topping every exam. It’s about learning to balance laws and life, discipline and deadlines — all while building a future that’ll someday sign off board resolutions and guide corporate governance.
So if you’re in the CS grind, keep your head high and your Bare Acts closer.
