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Road to MICA: My Group Exercise - Personal Interview Experience

Road to MICA: My Group Exercise – Personal Interview Experience

It was early 2015, I think. That’s when I first heard about MICA. Honestly, I procrastinated a bit (read: 1 year) but I knew that this was the place I want to be. And in 24 years of my life, I can assure you that I have never wanted anything as much as I have wanted to get into this college for this specific course. I attempted MICAT in 2016 and then again in 2017. 2 years, 2 CATs and 4 MICATs…

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Why Facebook/Instagram should come up with a feature like LinkedIn Premium

Why Facebook/Instagram should come up with a feature like LinkedIn Premium

A few days ago I created a poll on Facebook and Instagram asking people if they would buy a feature on Facebook which would enable them to see who has viewed their profile and how many times. A whopping 80% of them said No. Which is well, understandable. But I beg to differ. I think if this feature does come, it can be groundbreaking. Let me cut right through the chase. Ever since Facebook hit…

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Books and Poetry I come from a bomb shelter made with a lining of books. I come from a place where…

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Hold it!

Hold it like Hodor. Never let your guard down. Speak nothing. Like a broken mixtape on repeat that plays just one song; incidentally, the only song that reminds you of your dead lover; just keep on chanting: “I am okay”. Hold it like Aerys, Pull out the swords stuck in your stone of a heart; Make a throne of those swords, sit on it. Give orders to burn all the memories that remind you of her with…

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Of Rain and Tea Stalls

Of Rain and Tea Stalls

If you stare long enough at the bokeh of car lights, you will see how insignificant time is. And yet here we are counting everything in seconds and minutes and years, trying to grab everything we can with two paper hands. (and it’s pouring outside)   If you stare long enough at the trails of rain drops, you will see how insignificant a place is. And yet here we are putting labels on our luggage…

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On a rainy day - Murakami

On a rainy day – Murakami

Maybe on a rainy day If the sun decides to shine, Don’t act surprised. Play along. As if it is a ritual for over a hundred years, (You’re 20 but you are an old soul too) open your rucksack – pluck that copy of Norwegian Wood. Page 317, line no 9 “I wonder what ants do on rainy days?” Midori asked. “No idea,” I said. “They’re hard workers, so they probably spend the day cleaning house or…

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Disaster

In case of a forest fire, People are taught to turn away are run. Run till the glimmer of destruction looks like a beacon of hope. In case of an earthquake, People are taught to find open fields; lie down and sleep till the shaking ground feels like a forgotten lullaby. I have known love, like I have known disaster. So, in case of a heartbreak, I run. As far as I can. As fast as I can. Till all I…

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City of Stars

*city of stars playing in the background*   I often go out on long walks; palms a little sweaty skies a little starry. On nights like these I often miss: eyes to drown in palms to fit it lips to lock in. I haven’t understood love ever. It has been like a foreign language to me. I see people conversing in them; effortlessly. And here I am, a little too impatient, a little too prone to lose things…

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The girl who loved the oceans

The girl who loved the oceans

It was said that she used to carry every favourite memory with her; in a clenched fist. every favourite thing on her shelf. and I would ask, Where are the oceans that you love with all your heart? She would say “Look into my eyes, silly” And, I would drown. Every Single Time.

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Why Sarahah works.

Quite recently we have found our timelines flooded with screenshots and status’ about sarahah.com. A few months ago a similar wave was created by famously infamous sayat.me For a week I have been trying to avoid sarahah and go seek attention and validation in the conventional way – social media platforms. Well, that’s true. No? Isn’t the core intent of a boomerang, an Instagram Story, a Facebook…

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Blur

Imagine a Grand Prix. Final lap. Cars rushing like meteors. Crashing and Burning, Twisting and Turning. That’s how thoughts run in this tiny head on mine. That’s the anatomy of the mind of an over-thinker. Like auto-correct suggestions on a keypad; we think of possibilities. Like fishing with a thousand hooks; we pluck probabilities. We don’t carry a halo on our heads. We carry a blur on our…

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Vials

Prompt: The day you realized that your parents aren’t superheroes.   The first thing my parents would do after waking up everyday was to shut the vials of emotions with a cork. And they would cross-check it, equal to the number of times they would have chai. Thrice. Sometimes more on bad days. Little did they know that vials are made up of glass and glasses break. So, in anxiety one day when my…

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Anonymous

Today’s Prompt: To all the poor ugly folks who know that they will never be anyone’s first preference. To all the broken lonely souls who are locked deep in the chamber of insignificance. To all those who remain a shade in the shadow; its not the starlight that’s not reaching you but its the heart that’s refusing to shine! I am the side kick. The second favourite child. The shirt you settled for.…

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Do what you can't - Casey Neistat

Do what you can’t – Casey Neistat

Yesterday a well-known internet celebrity called Casey Neistat released a video called “Do what you can’t” What he essentially asks you to do is to challenge yourself. Taking into account how popular he is; most of you might have watched it already. If not; here. There’s a reason why I am writing about this. This website will complete a year in about one month. Since that day, I have made…

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Words

The words. They are dying to come out of my mouth. When you hear my stomach rumble, I am not hungry. Well, I might be. But I know the difference. The voices are the whispers, Whispers of the butterflies in my belly and the words. Them, planning a devious plan to tell the things that I must not say. To tell her that I… I am weak. I don’t like people running over me. With bulldozers of rejection…

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Carousel - A ride back to simpler times

Carousel – A ride back to simpler times

Shhhhhhhh. Listen. Avoid the traffic noise. The murmurs and whispers. Avoid life, who is waiting at the other end of the ring, waiting for you to get up so that it can give you a sucker punch. Just listen. Close your eyes. Come on I mean it. Close your eyes and listen. Yes… the heartbeats you can feel them, right? Now, are you able to hear the sound of splashes as you jumped in the puddles as a…

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Blue

Blue. Class 10. Biology. Chapter 18. Heart and Circulatory System. Last second bench. School’s a blur to me. But sometimes memories come to me like sea weeds with tides on a full moon night. It is too overwhelming but in almost an instant it goes back like ebbs. This particular memory stayed. Unwanted. Unimportant. Like scars of a lost battle. Like answer to a rhetorical question. Arteries and…

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