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Journey from +91 to +1

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Hello readers. To start this writing without apologizing won’t be fair to you guys at all. I know it has been a long time since I have written down anything, but as usual, I would like to blame my laziness for it. A lot has happened since we last met. That time I was an intern at Samsung, getting used to the monotonous corporate life, but know I am in Los Angeles, California. Plot twist for sure. But like any other plot twist, it didn’t just happen. A chain of events led to this moment; each played their part just enough to put me in the place I am right now. Delhi Airport It’s May 2019, I have got my acceptance from USC. A lot of things have to be accomplished now, some big and some small, but without all, without the synergy, everything will fail. I am waiting for the i20 document from college to book my Visa interview slot. Talking about interviews , my Samsung interview would also take place this month. Had to prepare for that as well. One coding test, which I have alrea...

Mysore Road Trip

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To Travel is to Live Consider this my first travel memoir. Papa advised me to make one when we went to Singapore and Malaysia, but the laziness inside me, which holds everyone from achieving their potential, got better of me. Let’s say sanity prevailed this time and here I am, writing my first travel memoir. It all started on a Wednesday night, me sitting with my phone and laptop scrolling through YouTube videos and thinking about how I will be wasting my four days holiday. Four days because Karnataka had Lok Shabha Election on Thursday, Friday was Good Friday, and weekend is weekend. It’s not that I hadn’t tried, but my friends kept canceling our plans. We had plans for Wayanad, Kodaikanal, Mysore, etc. Mysore plan was supposedly on, and it was planned for the weekend. Out of nowhere, I got a call from Akshay Jain, my college classmate and the person I wasn’t expecting to get call from, saying that they are planning a trip to Mysore, the very next day. Now, I had two groups t...