Homesickness
The summer is perhaps the time that all college students (myself included) look forward to all year. It is the time we go home, the time we can temporarily forget the challenges of academics and the rigors of college – and just be kids again. I get about a month for summer break, and it’s a month I waste in pursuit of happiness and a vague sense of having “accomplished” something – a truly enjoyable pursuit, and one I recommend everyone try out. This summer, I alternated between cooking my ageing GTX 1050 and cooking the clutch of Dad’s 20 year old Bajaj bike, interspersed by periods of cooking my other laptop’s RTX 3050Ti and chewing through the free trials offered by cloud providers. It was a heady mix of frustration, triumph and petrol – just the way I like it. One of the chores I have at home during vacations is to source milk for the day. I choose to do this by taking out our old Indica for a spin, heading to the second-closest supermarket, and picking out the m...