My Inescapable Thought Abyss

There’s this one poem I wrote last year: I wrote it during a chemistry class. Don’t blame me, inspiration can be found anywhere, especially when you’re on the verge of falling asleep during an extremely boring chemistry class. Since the class topic was putting me to sleep, I began thinking of that year’s summer I spent in Switzerland and it came to me in the form of poetry. However, this poem is not written the way most poems are, or by following a specific poem structure. I’ve written it like an account of a few days in the country of Switzerland: what I saw, what I thought, which incidences I remembered and why. And I happened to have found a picture from which I can directly associate this poem. Here goes: Sitting in a classroom, Doing as I’m told, My mind drifts off to, The day I walked the bricked streets, Of Zürich . The day saw no sun, Clouds hung low above in the sky. I walked out of a store, And I walked the length of the bridge. ...

Commenting on other blogs. This task was one of the tasks of the Student Blogging Challenge, week 2 by Edublogs. So, I visited a few blogs of the other participants of the challenge and dropped them some comments, following the commenting guidelines as one should. And I realised, in case one, I ended up writing a comment in order to inform the blogger that I shared a similar interest and also telling her about a resource I’d recently found which caters to that kind of interest. I tried to keep it relevant and ended with a question I had on my mind relating to it. Comment, Case 1: Blog post: Click here Hey Enija! This is Mahikaa from India. I really love Rome too. Its culture, history and architecture fascinate me. I have little knowledge about its mythology but I hope to know more. In case you're looking for something engaging concerning Rome, I recently found a free course on Future Learn about it. I signed up for it to finally learn more about it...

Commenting guidelines, why do we need this? Because often our comments may not be constructive or provide a real feedback to the writer. What’s the need, you ask? The answer, my friend, is because if there’s something, some thought that reading a blog post stirred up in your mind, it’d be a hundred times better if you conveyed the message successfully. And such kinds of thoughts aren’t really conveyed by statements like: Amazing! Or, Cool! Or, That’s great. So, I’ve compiled together a list of guidelines that may help you, my beloved audience, to be able to communicate what my writing made you think of or what message you might like me to have successfully. 1.        For safety reasons, prefer to not give away personal information like your full name or your mobile number or your address. 2.        Be sure to add a small greeting in the beginning just because it’s polite. 3. ...

Hello people! I am officially back! Okay, here’s a quick recap of why I was gone in the first place: Those people who know me would know that I was in tenth grade. And at the end of which, had one of the “supposedly most important exam of my academic life ugh ” or, as they call it, the Board exams. I still don’t get why it’s such a big deal. Because of which I had to abandon my writing work for an unforgivably long time, three months to be precise. But that’s done with now, and that’s past us, phew, and here I am, back to work. As for feeling lucky…. I stated that I just gave my board exams, they ended on March 18. As it happens, on the very evening of March 18, CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education), also, my current educational board announced the postponement of the remaining board exams because of the hiking numbers of the corona virus cases in our country. And, it’s been more than ten days and I still feel lucky for having finished my exams o...