8 Ways to Overcome Sadness and Despair

“Despair, despair, despair.”

I remember beginning an article with the above phrase in 6th grade because I couldn’t learn to ride a bicycle until that time. Sadness is something very transient as a kid. More temporary than a pinch mark on your hand. And at that time these young emotions seemed too hard to bear. With age not only do we grow, our problems and emotions start to grow as well. We tend to equate these seemingly larger problems with complications. Even if we fail to notice, none of our problems is bigger or more complicated than us. Sometimes we are so lost that we don’t even know what we are sad about. We might feel that we have reached a dead end in our life, but don’t let the darkness deceive you. Keep walking and you definitely will find a pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel. Here are some of the ways which might save you from drowning in your own head:

1. Try to know the problem:

Remember how knowing a demon’s name in horror movies gives you power over it? Well, being able to pinpoint the thing(s) that is bothering you gives you power over it as well.

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2. Let it out:

Talk about what’s going on in your mind. Going into a shell might seem the easy and comfortable option, but take your time and talk about it to someone. You might as well write everything down. Just get it out of your system. That’s the important thing.

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3. Keep yourself busy:

An empty mind is devil’s workshop. Keep yourself occupied. Develop a hobby or take up a passion you lost when life happened. Read, write, draw, dance, sing, watch movies. Absolutely anything.

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4. Perspective matters:

When everything seems grey, try to change your perspective. Maybe, it won’t seem so pathetic after all. Don’t they say that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder?!

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5. Is it going to matter so much always?

When I had almost given up on life, a friend who now means a lot to me asked me a question which made me think hard. He asked me, “Is the problem you are facing right now going to have the same importance in your life a few years down the line?” More often than not we get hung up on things which matter a lot now, maybe more than a lot, but is it going to be the same always? The only good thing about life is that it goes on. And so should you. Get yourself out of the spiral which is choking the life out of you.

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6. The human touch:

We are social animals at the end of the day. And human touch is as beautiful as Midas’ touch. It won’t turn anything into gold but it definitely will leave you touched. Find that human who has the gift of understanding you when you can’t even understand yourself. It can be anyone, a friend, parents, siblings, a counsellor or maybe a long-awaited love? Someone who is willing to fix you for your happiness.

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7. Prioritize:

Life might seem the worst thing that has happened to you but make the most of it while it lasts. Mould it according to you. Craft it the way you want. You are the protagonist, narrator, writer and creator of this piece of art. Get a grip and prioritize your life.

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8. You are worth it:

So worth it. Do not ever doubt that. You are worth it and you matter, if not to anyone then to your own self. Build a self that others can look up to and not one you cannot look in the eye. Love yourself. Care for yourself. For you are going to live with yourself till the last breath escapes your mouth. You are worth every bit of it. Period.

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5 Things that an Indian student never learnt

Education in India is not for the faint-hearted. In fact, it has always been like this, pressure-filled. Where kids are pushed harder and harder which makes education more like a cough syrup in India.

We fail hugely to gain success in the world market as we still want to stick with the education system that the colonial masters made to produce clerks and civil servants. It’s time we evolve or else the following problems found in current Indian students would continue to plague even the coming generations.

1. Read more; Why?

India wouldn’t have become such a great nation if Gandhi and Nehru were running behind marks. Our parents and teachers put aside our common sense and judge our intelligence based on how much content we could vomit out on exam sheet.

Thus, Indian students never learned to read extra as education always remained marks bound and they never read things that were not “in syllabus”.

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2. Theory fails, practice remains!

Our education system wants to gear and test knowledge at every level but totally sidelines the importance of teaching skills. As they say, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for one day, teach him how to catch a fish and you have fed him for a lifetime.” But in India, rote learning and memorization are what prevails. We encourage cramming so much that the lifelong learning based on a student’s aptitude is lost.

Our engineers fail to grab high profile jobs as they search for answer scripts instead of revamping their imagination. Thus I feel that Indian students definitely never learned how to cope with problems in a practical way and are reduced to bookworms.

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3. Job-oriented, not Goal-oriented

“India is a country where people first become engineers, and then they decide what they want to do in life.”

For us, education is very closely related to money. That is why; one would find in India that people don’t follow their passion instead they run behind degrees that can fetch them good jobs in future. However, they fail to understand that lack of interest would not achieve them the prowess that is required in any field. People have to learn that education is not degree-bound but it goes beyond it and here I would like to quote Amir from 3 idiots (which I totally believe and agree with),

“ kaabil Bano, kamyabi jhak maar ke piche aaegi”

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4. Rat-race; I doubt if anyone will ever win it

One is healthy competition and other is what happens in India. Basically, a rat race is when you don’t have a goal and start running behind something merely because someone else is running behind it. Slowly and slowly, there is a gush of people running towards the unknown object. So, breathe and think if you have also chosen someone else’s goal as yours or are you striving for the product.

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5. Professionalism; What’s that again?

We took our assignments, home-work, teachers, and education as a whole lightly, and they took us lightly. Amidst all this ‘lightness’, we missed learning the essence of education, being diligent and professional about one’s work. And because our education system was always so laid back where no one really cared for what we learned (nor did we cared), we forgot to learn the most important etiquette of life.

And later when we enter the professional world, we compare ourselves with others and wonder what went wrong!

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“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one learned in school”

-Albert Einstein

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Dark side of online dating apps

Swipe right, left, up and down. Swipe till you find the right. The buzz around online dating has surely made us download dating apps at one point or another. The excitement of dating online just by chats is quite thrilling. Of course there are people who have met online and have decided to spend their lives together, but have you considered the percentage? Their percentage is nothing as compared to the fall outs that happen due to online dating apps.

While online dating apps can be as exciting as it gets, it does come with a few skeletons in the cupboard. While it offers you the romance with no strings attached, but let’s face it we are humans and are bound to get attached especially with the wrong one at the wrong time. Here are some dark sides of online dating apps that you should be aware of:

1. Reel or real

Let’s just say the profile picture you are seeing on the app can be fake. There is a full possibility that the person you are talking to is not the same one you are seeing online. Unless you have seen the person face to face, don’t believe what you see online.

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 2. Gone with the wind

You cannot trace the person you were talking to on online app unless you have exchanged phone numbers. If you are talking just through the online app, then the one you think is your dream man/woman can disappear and never come back. You might get attached and your date can easily break all ties with you just by finishing his/her existence from the app.

3. You are not YOU!

Well, let’s just not pretend, if the person you are talking to can be fake, so can you. You are in constant urge to impress your online date and can lie about yourself with ease. There is not even a possibility for the person to read your body language and judge you. You become a different person that sometimes even you fail to recognize.

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4. Polygamy

Okay okay, let’s admit this. You are not the only one your online date is talking to. They might be double dating or even multi dating, because there is literally no way to find out about your online dating partner’s cheating habits. You might not be someone special to them but just another one of their fling.

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5. From dating to stalking

A lot of apps offer you of finding your online date nearby, in a distance as close as 100 m. What if the person turns out to be a psycho or a stalker? You do realize they can follow you around everywhere and stalk you to the level of being crazy, right? You cannot even avoid them on online app because they might come in person and ask you why aren’t you replying. So basically online dating can give you a stalker for life.

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This dark side of online dating apps is something everyone should keep in mind when they land up on an app to find either the right one or just a casual fling. We aren’t suggesting that dating apps are a bane, but they aren’t a boon either. Just be careful is all we are asking you to do. Till then relax and we hope you can find someone in real. 

5 things I blame F.R.I.E.N.D.S for

Monica’s sex appeal, Rachel’s beauty, Phoebe’s frenzy, Chandler’s wit, Ross’s innocence and Joey’s blissful ignorance, this would largely spell out my addiction. I was one of those thousands who would sit with their eyes glued on the screen each time these 6 appeared. I am also one of those thousands who watched it over again and again and never seem to get bored.

But with time, it all changed, it started to send me on guilt trips each time I watched it. Not because of wasteful hours passed but because of its very content.

Weaved within fat-shaming Monica to blatant misogyny, Joey objectifying women to justifying society’s homophobia and how can I forget about the whitest caste ever in spite of the fact that it was shot in one of the most racially diverse city.

I love the show, and I keep thinking about the difference it would have made had it been written by writer who challenged the clichéd gender conformity. And now, each time I see it, I Keep wondering about these wrongly depicted sketches.

1. LGBT, a mere JOKE!!

Though I love the fact that show features the lesbians and transgender but sometimes it leaves me wondering if they were added solely as a punchline.

May it be Chandler’s dad or Ross’s wife, any dig taken against them revolves around the fact that they were related to the lesbian and the transgender. I wish they had shown society’s acceptance at least once. Hence, thousands like us were swayed to believe that having one of them in our lives would leave us open in front of a laughing crowd.

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2. Objectifying women, Yet again!!

The men of the group are seen spending an undue amount of time defending their masculinity and hetero-status that they forgot to pay their homage to women. And this becomes yet another popular sitcom that uses women solely as sexual object. Their continuous “How many girls have you slept with?” conversations do not seem progressive. The background laughter nicely covered the fact that Joey was considered masculine only because he slept with numerous women. “CAN IT BE MORE DISGRACING?”

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3. Slim women gets it all

Is it only me who finds it disturbing that on one hand Chandler is shown fat-shaming Monika and later he goes GAGA over her when she slims down. The show drills it in our head that teenage Monica who was fat was worse off as compared to the new slim Monica who is confident, attractive and much active sexually. Plus she is seen joining the laughter based on her weight.

I am sorry, but at least I wouldn’t allow anyone mocking my size; former or current.

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4. Rachel’s career advancements hurdles as a result of Ross’s insecurities

Is it just me for whom Rachel Greene stands as an epitome of all those women whose relationship crumbles because of her career. Though I am glad to see that Ross was the one who got judged here for his selfishness but it stays to be the ugly truth of our society.

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5. Gender stereotypes

One would hear background laughter yet again each time the GUYS hugged each other, or cried, or used a purse, or loved potpourri. Well, wats up with all that gender stereotyping.

Moreover, women having more sexual partners appall men but men can go around changing their partners like pajama was all cool. NOT COOL!

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So,
I feel with time I have chosen my stand and I would rather not listen to HETEROSEXUALS call each other women as an epithet. I think this time I would give it a pass.

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Why College Students Dropout: Don’t Let it Happen to You

Isn’t college the best time of our lives? Yes! It certainly is. But not for all. There are students who despite desperately wanting to join college cannot do so. Judging them won’t be right because they have their own set of reasons. There could be a chance that either you are the one who has to dropout or you might be the one who is eventually thinking too. Either way, don’t let that happen to you. Here are the reasons why college students mostly dropout:

• Money issues

Finance is one of the most common reason, why people dropout. College is surely expensive and not everyone has appropriate and sufficient funds for the same. But don’t let money issues get in way of your education. Either start saving initially or you can talk to college authorities for various scholarships and aids.

• In need of full-time job

You might think that college is a waste of time and you should start earning. Well, you might not realize this now but sometime in future that a degree is a must. Don’t let the want of job get in between your degree. Get a degree and you will surely earn more than what you will earn without it.

• Family issues

Oh! That’s a tough one. There could be some problem in the family that might be leading you to drop out of the college, but please don’t. The situations could be unavoidable but there is always a middle way out. Find it and get going for your degree.

• Establishing a startup

Right! Startups are the new trend and apparently, almost every student wants to start a business without completing the degree. Your idea might be innovative, creative and the best, but please don’t opt out of college for the same. What if the startup doesn’t go well? You need to have a backup, don’t you?

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If you think college would be really easy, then you are wrong. It is totally a different place than school. Your environment, friends, campus, everything is going to change. It is going to be stressful, but why dropout? You are a warrior and you know it, so get up and face everything that lies ahead. Just relax because When you get the degree in your hand, all the stress you have had will be worth it.

• Life outside class looks fun

Well definitely! the life you are leading outside the classroom is fun and people dropout because they don’t enjoy being in a class. But have you tried it out? Make more friends in your classroom and the life inside classroom would be much more fun than outside. Don’t dropout just for the fun of a few days. You don’t want to spend the future days regretting about the fun you had outside instead of attending class. Believe us, getting a degree is much more fun.

No matter what the reason is, Just Breathe. Think and you will definitely find a way out of the trouble you are in. If you are willfully opting out of the college, our suggestion would be not to do so. Get a degree and then you can do whatever you want. College gives you security for future, so why not secure it? Think before coming to a decision because you don’t want yourself to be regretting about dropping out few years down the line.

 

7 Unusual Statues And Monuments Across The Globe!

There are some monuments and statues that instill a sense of pride, beauty or emotions among the viewer. Those are unforgettable pieces of art that you get to see on field trips or in the pages of history books. But then there are some less-explored monuments, which are in a way an ode to the weird, the wonderful, and the just plain wacky which would make you think, “Seriously Bro? Seriously? Were you high or something before you ended up making these?”

Let’s look at some of them, One cautionary advice would be to just enjoy the view instead of trying to understand them (not if you don’t have something better to do).

7. De Vaartkapoen

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This statue was erected in 1985 in the Molenbeek area of Brussels. The scene it depicts is reminiscent of a comedy sketch: a man unexpectedly emerges from a manhole and pulls the feet from underneath a policeman. It’s author is Belgian sculptor Tom Frantzen.

6. Shit Fountain

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Artist Jerzy Kenar got tired of stepping out of his Chicago home and constantly stepping in dog poop. So, he decided to put his talents to good use and created a visual monument that would serve as a reminder to the dog owners of the neighborhood to scoop up what their pups leave behind. Enter Shit Fountain, a fecal-shaped bronze coil on top of a cement pillar with the monument’s title carved into the side.

5. The Headington Shark

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The significance of this sculpture is much greater than may appear at first sight. It was erected on the 41st anniversary of the nuclear attack on Nagasaki at the end of World War II. The sculpture depicts a beautiful , if potentially deadly lethal weapon falling from the sky.

4. Die Badende

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Artist Oliver Voss created the sculpture as an advertisement for British beauty company Glory. The company wanted to make a “big splash” in thanking the German people for embracing their latest line of products. The advertisement proved very successful; customers and a large crowd gathered to watch the woman hoisted from the water. The movers had a large towel ready to conceal her lady bits from peeping eyes.

3. Jimmy Carter Peanut

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The Jimmy Carter Peanut might give you nightmares, standing at 4 meters (13 ft) tall with a wide, toothy smile and no eyes. The peanut can be found on the side of the road in Plains, Georgia. The structure started out far from Georgia, however. It was actually constructed in Indiana in 1976 to honor Jimmy Carter’s visit to the state during his presidential campaign tour. Why was a giant, smiling peanut, of all things, used as a tribute? Well, before he was president, Carter was actually a peanut farmer.

2. Jeju Loveland

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The salacious monuments found on Jeju Island in South Korea were made to honor sexual acts. The park itself is called Jeju Loveland and arouses more than just curiosity from its many visitors. The theme park opened in 2004 and has a collection of more than 140 erotic statues depicting sexual encounters between both humans and animals. The goals of the theme park are to break down barriers and taboo feelings surrounding sex and promote the “natural beauty of sexuality.”

1. Brownnosers

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Brownnosers, created by Czech artist David Cerny, takes the term “brownnoser” to an entirely new (and literal) level. The two statues stand, or rather bend over, outside the Futura Gallery in Prague. The two figures are positioned side-by-side with the lower portions of their torsos protruding from a cement wall. Viewers are invited to climb ladders attached to the open anuses of the figures and stick their heads inside the openings.

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Is there a Life after Death?

Humans are the only species on earth who know for a fact they will die one day. But then again, this knowledge isn’t the one they relish. Throughout history, people have sought eternal life trying almost everything and most recently trying to fulfill this hope by pinning it to science. The only thing that surpasses this hope that death can be postponed forever is the hope that life will continue after death. And this belief in life after death comes in all shapes and sizes. In between the views involving continued existence in a physical body, and those in which survival takes place outside the body we are still stuck with it, trying to reason and understand the same.

Today let’s talk about that one question which has troubled every mind for centuries, And the question is, is there life after death? I mean, what we know for a fact is that one hundred percent of the people that you’ll ever meet are you going to die because we are structured to. But, is that it? What happens to you after you die? And if that is so, what’s the basis of the same? How does it even work? Let’s try to evaluate.

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If words of Plato were to be considered, he said that “I’m not sure what’s after death but nature seems to give us a picture of what it will be like, some new kind of life after death. Inside of every piece of fruit is a seed and if you plant the seed, you get the tree that brought it. An oak tree has an acorn and the acorn, if you plant it, you get another oak tree. The caterpillar goes into this cocoon and it seems to die and then it bursts forth as a butterfly.” Does that mean we have an ulterior purpose ? or is it all about “For you are dust, And to dust, you shall return.”

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According to Anthropologists almost every culture and religion known on the face of the earth believe in some kind of afterlife – everyone from the primitive cultures to the Amazon to the Himalayas to urban cultures.

There is this something in human beings that believe that death is just not an end, there’s something. Some people end up building pyramids while others build tombs, if we look closely into the rituals, people think that they can take their riches with them. Somehow death unites us all (at least the way we think). There’s a universal belief system in terms of life after death – a common thread of all people.

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That hunger, that thirst for knowing the meaning, the significance which never quite gets satiated. No matter what we accomplish, no matter how good it gets, there’s always that, hmmmm, we’re not quite there. And that is another reason to believe that there is life after death. Heaven or hell whatever you name it, there has to be something.

And then, even a part of science, i.e. “NDE” or the near-death experiences conducts various researchers trying to put an end to this mystery. With numerous people reporting near-death experiences where they see a light at the end of the tunnel or a mystic figure waiting to take them has been largely reported.

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Then comes our mythologies, the Hindu Mythology for that matter has a whole book called “Garur Puran” which tells you about how will you treated in hell or heaven according to your past deeds and the way you had led your life on Earth. Bible Claims that Jesus resurrected after being dead and buried for 3 days which yet again gives us hope of the same.

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What is the truth behind Life and Death? Can we somehow live forever? Is there a light waiting for us at the end of the tunnel? Only time will tell. Till then let’s hatch more conspiracy theories.

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9 Kind of Hostellers and The Way They Keep Their Room

In every hostel exist the 2 extremes of Monica and Max. And then those who fall in between. Actually, it’s quite similar to Botticelli’s map of hell. Here, the hostel is the hell of course. But if we look closely, it is more of a bittersweet experience really.

On that note, let’s visit all the different kinds of hostelers and the way they keep their room:

1. The one with all the filth:

They are the real Mama’s boys. It’s a wonder that they survive like this at all. Their clothes are untidy most of the times, sometimes they even pick clothes for wearing from their laundry basket. In fact, these are the people who don’t spend much time in their room. They are busy clubbing and partying, and use their rooms just for the purpose of sleeping. Priorities baby!

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2. Dirt phobia on point!

These are the people who won’t even let you enter their room with your shoes on. Most probably they will have a doormat which says, “Leave your shoes and ego behind”. Even though they are not well organised, they sure are clean and tidy.

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3. Emptiness:

These are the kind of people who won’t have much stuff in their room. These are the hostelers who have their home nearby. They have one foot in their hostel and the other in their home. Paying very less attention to the needs of their hostel room.

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4. Khula darwaza nikla poster:

Next are the artsy ones. Their room is filled with posters, and decorating lights and what not. They like to keep their room beautiful. And unlike the clean ones they are happy when they have some company. Their room is decently organised, but God! the posters and lights are everywhere, even in their washrooms.

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5. “Dolo se umar sari kat-ti nahin!”

The gym freaks. You won’t find many books or study materials in their room but you will definitely find those large jars of whey protein in abundance. From protein bars to eggs and spare dumbbells, their room is a mini gym in itself. Occasionally you can also find punching bags in one of these rooms.

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6. The Bibliophiles:

Books and books everywhere. It’s never enough. From the side table to their wardrobes, you will find books everywhere. Their first instinct is to buy books and when they realise they have no space left for keeping them then buying another bookshelf becomes a necessity for them. And the fun part is that they care for them like mothers. Don’t be surprised if you find more books than clothes in their room.

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7. The one with all the bingers:

These are the anime/comic lovers and the binge-watchers of TV series/ movies. Apart from the tons of action figures, stickers with comic or pop culture references, you will always find a laptop running some random anime/cartoon in their rooms. Most of their room is clean, but not the circumference of the bed. Here you can find the leftover food packing which can be a week old. They will always have an instant snack right beside their bed, along with cold drink sometimes. Oh! And how can you forget the Korean drama lovers? They fit into this category as well.

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8. Agarbattiyaan raakh hogai, God to mila hai inhein kahi:

You will find a specific spot in these rooms where they keep their idols/ holy books. They are quite the theist ones. Usually, they would keep the studying area close to their praying area. And are very concerned when any ungodly act of hostel terror happens in their room. “What will the gods say after seeing this?!” (Shudders at the thought)

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9. The nerd’s safe place:

A geek’s room can be decently organised but it does not take much time to create a total mishap. Their room will be filled with books, not so much as the bibliophile one but you can spot them easily. You will find sticky notes, organisers, and to do list everywhere because they have so much to do and time is never quite enough. You can also find an extra set of computers in their room. Because one is too mainstream and mundane. Hidden in a cupboard can be food items which they binge on during times of stress.

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Whatever their way of keeping the room be, one thing is sure: No one ever forgets their hostel life. It’s a life-altering experience altogether. Make the most of it while it lasts!

Ciao!

Friends with benefits: An unbiased opinion

Two friends who agree on having sexual relationship with no emotional attachments, is what urban dictionary calls as “Friends with Benefits”. While some might find this idea astounding and totally feasible, there are some who vehemently oppose it by saying, “There is always an STD-free way and free pornography available on internet, so the entire idea of having FWB and ruining the beautiful relationship called friendship is a moot point”.

Well, what-so-ever both the parties argue but we are here today declaring our stand as unbiased and largely fair on FWB.

People might feel that kicking off an FWB relationship is a lot of fun as you get to hook up with the person who understands you the most plus you are not at all answerable. That’s great!! But have you ever thought that IT is a hook up at the end of the day. And it is not important that the other person will be as detached as you are in that relationship. So to not end up with excessive emotional trauma at the end of the day, make sure that you follow these simple rules religiously.

1. Know yourself inside-out

Before you get into anything, be clear about your intentions, make sure that you are not looking for any long-term arrangement and are rather happy with keeping the strings unattached.

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2. Honesty will take you a long way

I understand that you guys are not looking for any emotional connect or commitment with each other. But come on, Transparency is the key to every relationship. Having a total cool girl/ cool boy attitude might not get you what you were looking for. Basically, talk in a neutral environment and voice out your demands and expectations too.

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3. Intermittent check of feelings

Now, one has to understand that feelings, emotions and human intentions are subject to change. One might think confident about having FWB in beginning but have qualms about the same later. So make sure that you keep a tight check on your feelings and don’t end up bartering emotional breakdown for sexual adventure.

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4. AND read on their feelings too

Apply the same rule; FEELINGS CHANGE. I know its all fun having sex with your buddy where all the inhibitions have taken a backseat but don’t forget to be human. Try and get an idea about your partner’s feelings too, talk about it if required. Make yourself available, and then only can you strengthen your trust, friendship, and vulnerability with each other.

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5. Don’t you forget to use the protection

It’s obvious in FWB arrangements that either of you will be hooking up with multiple people. So just play safe, you don’t want to pull yourself into complicated situations. Let each of your partners know about your preferred birth control technique before starting off the ride.

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And lastly, some words of wisdom; don’t get swayed emotionally even if they are your best orgasms ever. Remember; don’t try to build an intimate relationship rather just concentrate on enjoying each other physically.

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7 Web Portals that can help you land into your Dream Internship!

Internship has become a buzz word for today’s youth and very rightly so. Employers in today’s workforce market rely heavily on resumes that illustrate a relevant work history, whether that’s from internships, volunteer work, or actual job experience. A practical work background carries a major significance when attempting to enter the job market. It’s all about competition. Not only are businesses competing against each other for a competitive advantage, but people are also competing to land that coveted position in a company.

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Here, we try to list down 7 websites which can act as a bridge between you and the internship you are looking for.

InternShala
Link: www.internshala.com

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Internshala is an internship platform, based out of Gurgaon, India. Founded by Sarvesh Agrawal, an IIT Madras alumnus, in 2010, the website helps students find internships with organizations in India. Internshala is no.1 internship & training website for students in India with 4000+ paid internships in Engineering, MBA, media, law, arts & other streams.

LetsIntern
Link: www.letsintern.com

LetsIntern aims at providing a single platform for interaction between 10 million graduates across India and thousands of organization spread across the length and breadth of this country.  It offers internships across sector and disciplines, so whether you are law, architecture, engineering or art student, it caters to all of you. Similarly, it caters across firms.

MakeIntern
Link: www.makeintern.com

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MakeIntern is an online portal which provides the best internship opportunities in India. Such as Summer Internships, Virtual Internship, Paid Internship and many more. It helps in providing internships across various sector and disciplines, like law, architecture, engineering, arts or management student, it caters to all of you. Similarly, it caters across firms.

HelloIntern
Link: www.hellointern.com

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Hello, Intern is a new venture based on the idea of naukri.com but in a different field. hellointern.com differentiates from naukri.com by providing services in the field of training/internship, summer jobs, part-time jobs only. Right now they are focusing mainly on the domain of technical internships. They provide a FREE listing of companies’ internship positions and help them select the profiles best-fitting to their requirements. They already have more than 2000 students registered from premier institutions like IITs, NITs, ISM Dhanbad etc. in less than 3 months.

LinkedIn
Link: www.linkedIn.com

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Well if you are in the Job market and don’t know about LinkedIn, then it would be like not knowing the sun. LinkedIn is a business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via a website and mobile apps.  500 million members in 200 countries, out of which more than 106 million members are active. It offers internship as well with major companies listing openings through the portal throughout the year.

InternTheory
Link: www.interntheory.com

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Intern Theory provides you access to a variety of student-credit opportunities (paid/unpaid internships, volunteering at NGOs, virtual jobs etc.) that will ensure that you will cultivate the right amount of experience and the ethics of hard work, responsibility, discipline and of course the cool notion of ‘being at work’!

Naukri.Com
Link: www.naukri.com

 

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The word ‘Naukri’ translates to ‘Job’ in English. As of Dec 2016, Naukri.com had a database of about 49.5 million registered job seekers and an average of about 11,000 resumes was added daily while about 130,000 resumes were modified daily during the Fiscal year 2013-14. Those statistics in itself speak about the potential of the website and its capacity to get you an internship!

I hope this article gets you what you want and the company where you want to be. A suggestion would be to keep checking multiple portals for intern openings.

Till then, May the force be with you! 😋

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5 breeds of professors every college has

Fun, friends, unforgettable laughter, unrequited love stories, unattended lectures and memories for a lifetime, these words will definitely sum up everyone’s college life. But amidst of all this when studies interrupted, we were nothing but forced to think about our dear professors. So, with three cheers here’s to the ones who made classrooms memorable in their own peculiar way!

1. Sarcasm is what I serve!

I am sure we all had that one professor who would scold us subtly and sarcastically. This one got mimicked the most. The smart ones would not just pick up the value from his lectures but would also learn some sugar-coated and not-so-obvious ways of insulting others. Isn’t it!

But you got to secondhand me on this that each time they scolded us, it would start like a trail of confusions till we finally realize that our a** is getting barbecued super-nicely.

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2. Punctuality is my religion

Here goes their pet statement, “If you cannot come to the class on time, don’t come at all”. Like seriously, these guys would not spare you even if you are 1 millisecond late. And the worst part is that there lecture is always in the early morning block. So, I never risked and went running, empty stomach to his classes to avoid being late. But guess who was late? HIM.

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3. Do you remember his name?

There is always this one professor (in some cases more than one) whose name is forgotten by all. Instead, everyone ritualistically calls him by the nick name that was assigned to him years ago by unknown super seniors. And if someone by mistake mutters out the original name, he would receive nothing but the shocked glances like, “who are you talking about?”

Moreover, here’s an inside story, these professors are well aware of their nickname too but you know, they have made their peace with it.

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4. I hate you…Like I love you

Here’s an ode to all those professors who were just too good with their subject. But at the same time, they would just not let us breathe. These are the ones who would not understand that their subject is not the only one that we have.

But, they are always so precise and articulated in their assignment sheets and would give such value lectures that hating them would be so damn unfair.  But mind you, they totally lack human emotions and definitely have favorites. So as soon as you decide on giving them nasty reviews at the end of the semester, you just can’t because they taught you so damn well.

Phew! Just can’t control my thoughts from swaying in either direction. Well, I can’t decide whether to love them or hate them. Can you?

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5. He has it all (literally all)

And finally enters the “topper” of the lot, the apple of our eye, and every girl’s dream, Mr. Smarty-Pants. Their vibe is their asset, every girl drools over them and they just make the class feel so interesting. He is cool, understands that you have a lot of burdens, comes down to your level to explain concepts and loves his job. OH! And how can I forget that untamed charm.

They have put with all our shit, late submissions, absenteeism and lack of responsibility but it’s all because of them that we have reached where we are today. So, THANK YOU.

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Live-In Relationships ~ New Kid on the block?

A rush of chilliness ran down my spine when he asked me if I wanted to move in with him. I stood there, dazzled and confused at the same time. Did I hear it right? Or maybe he meant something else? A sense of delight was slowly chipping in but I kept a blank face on, holding my ground, waiting for him to come again. As startled as I was, I didn’t want to give that away. I slowly moved towards him pretending as if I haven’t heard him in the first instance. “Sorry,” I said. “I guess I couldn’t hear you”, gently sliding that strand of hair that was covering my left eye while the right lay glued at him, catching every last bit of reaction I could gather. He, for once hesitated, and then mustering up his voice said again, “Do you wanna Move in with me?”. And there I could see him turning pale as if he had seen a ghost. While I, on the other hand, was trying to control my laughter on looking at his face which was showing signs of uncertainty and fear. I leaned towards him wrapping my hands around his shoulders, staring him in the eye and said, “I thought you would never ask.” and that was our moment, A moment to cherish. While the sun was setting down, giving way to the moon, the sea met the horizon, crimson redness scattering all around as if it’s giving an approval for us to be together.

But it was a day later when reality struck. LIVE-IN was supposedly a huge deal for people around. I couldn’t understand why. I mean, It’s me who is the one who will be impacted and it’s everyone else around who are feeling the heat. Why so? Well maybe because it’s their job to judge! But then I don’t know what makes them judge it anyway. Two grown-up individuals who like each other decide to live together under one roof. Where in this world does that sound Corrupted? And yet, It’s frowned upon. It’s easy to judge others but then judging someone on the basis of a preconceived bias which is all but positive might be termed as a jerk move. (Oh Damn. Are the moral police reading this? :3)

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Let’s get into some statistics while we are talking about this to make it a solid research supported account about the new kid on the block, and most importantly, one who is here to stay, Live-in Relationship! The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development reports that more than half (54 percent) of all first marriages between 1990 and 1994 began with unmarried cohabitation. This said I guess more than half of the people can’t be that wrong. Eh?

BUT BUT BUT, There always has to be a but. Isn’t it? 😂

Live-In comes with its own share of problems and downfalls. Let’s me try to lay that down too :

• Living together is considered to be more stressful than being married.
• Just over 50% of couples who have lived-in ever get married.
• Couples who lived together before marriage tend to divorce early in their marriage.
• Compared to married individuals, those cohabiting have higher levels of depression and substance abuse.

Should that stop us from getting into one? Naah. We are the Millennials. We love to live dangerously. But then again completely ignoring the fact and the noticed patterns would be a foolish move. It’s always the decision of the couple. What can be done is put in the rationality of thoughts about your motivation for living together.
Is it just out of convenience?
Is it to spend more time together?
Are you uncertain about the relationship and want to make a more informed decision?
Or, is it just a prelude to marriage?
What’s need to be Kept in mind is that couples who live together seem to have the most successful outcomes when they have already made a clear commitment to each other.
Let me try to draw a line to this now for two reasons.
One, He is getting bored and I can’t see him wait on me while I am glued to my screen.
Two, The first reason is important enough. 😉

Last but not the least guys. Whether you choose to live under the same roof or miles apart. Distance is never a problem when you love someone. It’s always about priorities and if you could make the person of your life your priority. Then trust me, all these statistics and research would be of no use at all.
BECAUSE LOVE IS WHAT LOVE WANTS!  😋

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