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Konichiwa means hello in Japanese and is a form of greeting. I learnt it during my trip to Japan about four years ago in August 2018. Part 1 of that trip can be found here. This article picks up right […]

Konichiwa means hello in Japanese and is a form of greeting. I learnt it during my trip to Japan four years ago in August 2018. My brother and sister-in-law were staying in Tokyo at the time, and I was going […]

I landed at SeaTac (Seattle-Tacoma) airport on a cold (possibly rainy) day in December 2015. This was the first time I had travelled outside India and the first place I came to in the United States. I spent the next […]

The title seems a little exaggerated, but I’d say it still works for the year that has been. It feels like I am in a movie where it’s the same day over and over like Groundhog Day. Months have passed and […]

Look here for part 1 and here for part 2. I have been in the United States for about four and a half years now. I came here as an exchange student in January 2016, moved on to pursue my Masters and graduated at […]

Almost four years ago on January 1st 2016, I was poking around the UF International Center trying to find my way to check-in with them. And two years later on 16th December 2017, I got my graduate degree from the […]

I turned 25 this past month and completed a quarter of my life. Even though the title might suggest otherwise, I am not in a quarter life crisis. It was an attempt to be somewhat funny. Good thing I don’t […]

It was October 4th, 2017 in a conference room in the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando. More than 10,000 people had gathered for the keynote of the largest conference for women in technology. What conference am I talking about? The […]

This post has been pending for too long, and since I recently started working in my first full-time job, I wanted to go back and look down the memory lane to see where it all started – my first step […]

It’s been a year and a half since I came to United States for my Masters. During the spring semester, there is a week long break from classes called Spring Break. Yes, the “Woohoo” spring break from the sitcom Friends. […]

It was supposed to be a night of fun. Laughing and talking, walked six friends over to the bus stop in a small town called Gainesville, Florida. Little did they know that life was going to change in a few […]