Let's face it, other than for "developing skills" or "challenging yourself," MUN conferences are often more about that participation certificate, flaunting yourself in formals, and meeting new people. Speaking of the latter, here are a few categories of MUN-ers that you're likely to come across at every conference.

As a plea to all huggers-please learn to recognise our breed. If someone you've hugged turns into ice the second you noose them in your arms, they're probably a non-hugger.

These are not the regular dinners you see in movies. Dawats are the quintessence of our race: intense cricket discussions, fed up moms running after their young and trying to feed them, and that smell of kacchi biryani that is teasing your salivary glands from the kitchen but is taking eons to be served.

Our protagonist, Belal, who likes to be called 'Be' (a name he adores because of the sheer irony – the pointlessness of 'Be'ing), wakes up sweating profusely. He is quite certain it's because of some dream that portrayed the futility of his existence.

Punning is not a punishable offence, so punch the machine. Pun to no end. Be the pundit of punch-worthy puns. You need to punk everyone before anything else.

After a long tiring day of battling Dhaka traffic and legal jargons, I sit blessed in the comfort of my own bedroom and binge-watch puppy videos on YouTube.

Back in the day, one only ventured out into Facebook only to like a few statuses, add the occasional beauty/beast (we don't judge), play a few online quizzes and call it fate when the letter Facebook says your crushes name starts with happens to coincide with, well would you know it, your crush. How boring.

Do you mumble pathetic things like "the dog ate it" while stuffing paper in your mouth when your teacher asks for your homework?

Our first attempt at socialising starts with our neighbours, people you surely see gathering on the ground floor right after an earthquake.

Here's some food for thought: what if to-do lists were called “active quests”? Would we still get to the bottom of the augmenting list?

It's hard to imagine life without YouTube and harder without the legendary comments each video generates.

When you stumble through the threshold of high school into university, you're faced with many new dilemmas. But perhaps the most important could be the one involving whether to take all your classes with your significant other or not.

You know miracles exist when you're hastily stuffing your backpacks and tediously ironing your uniform but your phone beeps and a text announces that school is closed until further notice.

Are you worried about your weight? Frustrated after numerous futile attempts to make it to the gym? Well, you haven't tried EVERYTHING yet until you've turned to the warmth of your knowledgeable relatives for foolproof scientific remedies to losing weight.

All my life, I have been getting biannual visits from my dear old friend, the common cold. Every time the weather changes even slightly...

Regardless of their repeated promises to accept anyone we love, mothers are genetically engineered to snoop around our love life and ensure that we are dating the people who meet their standards.

Did you ever get a creeping urge to listen to six hours of this guy? Me too and I am genuinely interested in the effects Cameron Jibril Thomaz's music will have on my brain. Throughout the next six hours I will monitor myself and write about my state of being as each hour goes by. I am optimistic of Mr Wiz's compositions and am hoping that this will be a pleasant experience.

When guys are asked about their stayovers they would mysteriously reply “What happens in stayovers, stays in stayovers”.

When I was younger and life was full of flowers and unicorns, I had, by accident, watched a lot of British films where beautiful women woke up with makeup on their faces...

If you have been misfortunate enough to proceed to university after 12 years of turmoil in school and college, I'm sure you have noticed how teachers in different levels of educational institutes have some fundamental differences.