Like millions of teens across India, my niece packed her bags and headed out to college last week. Hitee has always been an academic star, but I am guessing that she headed for the portals of Ashoka University with the same combination of apprehension and excitement that I did when I entered Loreto College to study English literature so many moons ago.
As the pictures of her campus, her new room, her classmates began inundating the family WhatsApp group, I began thinking about what I wish I had done and not done during that period of my life. Everybody's college experience is unique. But here, in no particular order of importance, are some things that I wish I had known as I studied for my Honours degree.
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