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College Confessions, Testimonials

Daily Dissonance: A Reluctant DD Student at IIT Bombay!

for the last six months I have been living two distinct roles – one in the lab and one in the room. And now looking back, I find that I had become quite good, even skilled at it – doing the chores in the lab and then doing my non-academic readings later in the evening, as if the two activities happen in distinct worlds. It feels very weird to have such distinct, discontinuous experiences on the same day, everyday for a long period of time. Continue reading Daily Dissonance: A Reluctant DD Student at IIT Bombay!

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‘Oh, What Have We Done!’

People in frustration tend to use justifications, like the guilty and the ashamed. It’s better for them to forget what should have been normal, it’s just too painful to conceive. It’s rather easy to not think, or to pretend to think, isn’t it? It maybe useful to get into this mindset, maybe just for some understanding. The problem is never with you, but everyone else. … Continue reading ‘Oh, What Have We Done!’

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You Wonder Sometimes, Don’t You?

All colleges have a different character and setting, a unique, tacit social reality. This college is very much a place where personal intelligence meets a strong interest in social chaos. It’s still very nice, isn’t it? You accentuate and celebrate this chaos, which is almost all times unsettling, though never quite so much as it is during examinations. Or placements. To “make it”, you’re told, … Continue reading You Wonder Sometimes, Don’t You?

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“I’m not alone” @ Gymkhana Grounds IIT Bombay

“I’m not alone” – the melody of Alan Walker plays in my ear as I begin my jog along the running track inside the gymkhana grounds. And I’m not alone indeed – men and women, boys and girls, teens and tweens – delightfully play in the vast quadrangle lined with trees wide open. They are ahead of me and behind me, some playing, some exercising … Continue reading “I’m not alone” @ Gymkhana Grounds IIT Bombay

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