XIC Milan 2026: When our Campus into a Canvas
03-September-2026
A blackboard doesn’t usually hold much weight. But on September 3, 2026, the one outside filled up with names, doodles, half-finished jokes, and lines students left for no one and everyone at once, before anyone quite knew what the next day would look like. Some wrote their names in bold letters, like they were staking a claim; others left a single word, a tiny drawing, or a joke only three people would understand. That board became a sign that something was building. XIC Milan, the college’s annual event, was on its way, and this year it carried the theme Canvas - a theme that stood out with each signature added to it.
The days leading upto it were their own kind of event. Rehearsal halls stayed occupied longer than usual, students moved between deadlines and dance steps with barely any room to breathe, and a nervous, competitive energy ran through every course as performances came together, one late night at a time. Corridors that usually stayed quiet by early evening held onto footsteps a little longer. Half-practised steps, conversations, and voices testing a note one more time before letting it go.
On the day itself, the campus held something it doesn’t always get to hold: students, management, board of studies, faculty, and staff - all came together under one roof. There were performances that pulled people out of their seats, singers who had the room following along without needing to be asked, and moments of felicitation that reminded everyone how much effort had gone unseen until then. The faculty clapped as loudly as the students did, and for a while, nobody seemed to remember which course anyone belonged to.
Fr Gordon cheered from the front row like it was his very first Milan too. And it said something about what XIC has always tried to be - a place that lets students build more than just a portfolio, but a personality, a voice, and a sense of who they are outside a classroom.
By the time the day wound down, the T-shirts told their own quiet story: messages scribbled by hands that hadn’t spoken much before that afternoon, ink still smudged from being written in a hurry between performances. Milan at XIC does that. It takes students from so many different backgrounds, courses, interests, and dreams and, for one evening, lets them stand in the same room as one.
And long after the lights came down and the corridors went quiet again, that feeling was the one thing nobody was in a hurry to wash off.
By Lara Sidana (PRCC)