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AXIS'17-'18: A Roller Coaster Ride!

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11th November 2016, 6PM. I was in the parking lot, walking back to my vehicle to go home after spending the day in the college. In the dark and shady parking lot, I accidentally saw a couple intensely making out. Realising that someone just saw them, they stopped and looked back at me, making the situation really awkward. I quickly took my phone out in a desperate attempt to unsee what I had just seen. I started to walk by them checking my messages and pretending nothing had happened. And suddenly, I stopped. I was shocked to see 30 messages, all congratulating me. I was like, What's this? ... I scrolled down and there was a group on which a senior had posted an image, I opened it and saw my name listed in the Core Committee of AXIS'17! We didn't know it back then, but this group of 13 were in for one heck of a journey. Our seniors told us to come to  Katta  as soon as we could and this was our first meeting as AXIS Core. Many things were told, many experiences sh...

Superwoman(Lilly Singh) | YouTuber who changed me

Not a day passes by without me putting my headphones on and watching YouTube videos. From memes & cringe-pop to knowledge & inspiration, YouTube has it all! One YouTuber, however, has a special place in my heart. That is Lilly Singh aka IISuperwomanII . With 13 Million+ subscribers, Lilly Singh is the most popular YouTuber of Indian Origin.  If you haven't checked out her content, which rock have you been living under?! Her sketches are downright hilarious, real and so relatable! But the reason I love her so much is very personal. A little more than a year back, for various personal, academic and work-related reasons, I was going through hell. One moment, I'm on top of my game, and the other, I feel that everything around me is falling apart. From spending complete days in college, I started to spend them locked in my room, not wanting to come out. From oversleeping due to my love for sleep, I started oversleeping because I wanted to live in the make-believe dream...