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Surviving (barely) Highschool!

Hey, I am back peeps!  So the past two years have been a roller coaster ride but at last, I am off that and likely heading for another one. So I guess this blog  is going to be a rant about my ahem thrilling, sleep deprived and bumpy experience. You know, after 10th, when you are riding high due to excellent performance in  boards and thinking that  cracking PCM  for engineering will be a piece  of cake? Yeah well if I had a Time Ma chine, I would have gone back to  naive 15 year old self and shook her hard like what were you thinking girl !?  See the journey started deceptively well  with  kinematics and mole concept. Then we hit rotational motion and advanced trigonometry. And it gets better! From there on it was a mainly downhill  with redox  reactions, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and then a rollercoaster experience with organic chemistry and coordinate geometry to top it all off.   Thereafter  it was a bl...

Braving the Boards!

Sup peeps! I know, I know it’s been a while since my last blog but with one exam and the other coming up, I have barely got time to breathe.You guessed it right, this blog is about the nightmare for 15 year old Indian high school students, the class XTH boards! I didn’t mention 17 year olds because they have other nightmares coming up like JEE  and NEET which will be my reality in 2 years. Yeah, that’s definitely the start of my villain arc😈. Anyways, back to boards. Honestly until I started Xth, they seemed to be a huge deal. I almost wanted to fail Ninth class just so that I would have another year before facing 10th, assuming social science didn’t kill me. At the start of the school year, everyone was like ‘iss saal boards dene hai,this and that’. I hadn’t even opened any of my textbooks and I was already stressing. But frankly, the year was pretty normal. Lemme tell you none of the common misconceptions that ‘all extracurricular activities are cancelled’ and ‘extra remedial cl...