If anyone had told me a year ago that I would be studying in India, and not in Dubai, where I grew up, I would have laughed at them.
It's been well over three years since the last time I posted and three years is quite a long time. I'm in university now! It never ceases to amaze me how fast time flies. It feels like just yesterday that I was a nervous 10th grader, waiting to write the board exams and here I am now, in the second semester of my undergraduate course.
Over the last three years, there have been many ups and downs. The downs were so low that they qualified as some of the worst moments of my life. Yet it's funny to think I can't even remember what caused me so much distress. Such is life, truly.
It reminds me of something my mother would tell me whenever I complained about university life and boy did I complain a lot. She would tell me, "This too shall pass."
And that's something that has stuck with me. In college, there's just so much happening. Your personality, relationships, career and environment are being challenged and you're forced to act outside of your comfort zone. There's just so much going on and at the same time that it gets difficult to navigate through it all.
Coming to college has also changed some of my views on India and challenged all these prejudices that I had. It has also changed my linear thoughts on other things like what it is like living with people, taking on new experiences and willingly accepting certain risks. This blog acts as a digital diary where I will be recounting all my experiences here in Bangalore. I hope that you'll be able to take something worthwhile out of this and if not, at least have a fun time reading!
