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Endsem

 It is 1am. I have a lab report due in 23 hours. I have not started it. It is going to take forever. I need 8 hours of sleep to study for an exam on Monday. I am sitting on my bed in the dark and listening to my sexiest playlist on Spotify. Life is good.  I know I should be more worried or even try harder but I just finished an 8 hour long essay for another course of mine and all I want to do now is just chill and listen to music. For some reason, I just can't seem to take this last ten days too seriously. I'm really enjoying this part of the semester. APL happened. I came second in a slam poetry comp in our uni's cultural fest. We won a gold in women's football in Dehradun. I've started hanging out with so many more interesting people. I'm enjoying my club work. I went to Delhi with someone who knew it in and out and it was so fun. My roommate and I have so much fun together. My best friends and I are chilling. The team just went out for dinner and drinks. Ever...

People

 I love people.  My university is currently hosting a football premier league and it's so damn cool. There are 24 owners, 240 players, auctions for players, team practices, professional personalized jerseys, matches from 6pm to 1am every day, and insane sideline cheering. There is a special podcast for the league, a live Twitter, and crazy social media coverage.  I was bought by 5 incredible owners on the 3rd of April. That is where my journey with AFC Elephant began. I knew only 2 other guys on my team and that was it. After two weeks of practices that started at 8pm and got over at 2 am, we played in the APL. We had two draws and 1 devastating loss in the group stage which led to us getting knocked out of the league early, but man I have no regrets. My team was incredible. My owners were even better. They brought us odomos (Sonipat mosquitoes are something else), iced tea, gatorade, water, medical supplies and gum every practice. We had one night of team bonding where w...