Today Started With A Hurricane. I Woke Up To A Hurricane. The Real Life One. Therain Is Going Horizontally

Today started with a hurricane. I woke up to a hurricane. The real life one. The ‘rain is going horizontally’ one. The ‘there is a literal white wall outside your window’ one. The ‘wind is so loud that I can’t hear you speak’ one. 

Nothing can beat the agony of getting seven problem sums wrong in a row.

Closed is not the opposite of Open. Closed is the complement of Open. Ifykyk

When you put in more effort in the 1 credit subsidiary course rather than the 3 credit core course.

Things that made me study science and maths (mostly good books)

·       A picture in yuval noah harari’s book, ‘Homo Deus’

·       A picture in the ‘Brief History of Time’

·       The word ‘epoch’

·       The book, ‘A Brief History of Everything’

·       A superb book called Number devil

·       A college level physics textbook called, ‘Conceptual physics’

·       A book called ‘We have no idea’

·       My school maths textbook(s)

·       The software Desmos

·       My poetic disposition

 Things that still dissuade me from studying science and maths (in no particular order)

·       The essay ‘A mathematician’s apology’

·       The competition

·       The hype about this place <insert name of popular institution/college>

·       My physics and maths TEACHERS

·       My school physics textbook

·       Guys who pretend they know everything

·       Guys who know everything

·       Biographies of genius mathematicians and physicists

·       Imposter syndrome

·       My inability to crunch big numbers

Me, giving up everything and working my hardest to get into one of the best national institutes, FARTHEST from my residence.

The World: No no no, we can’t let you get away from your manipulative parents so easily. We are gonna declare specifically YOUR institute closed. Good luck with dealing with them for another semester.