Stories, questions and ideas from students.

stories

• Dev Agarwal12thSample· 1mo ago

  I sold bookmarks out of my school bag for a term, and pricing almost broke me

  A ₹6 cost, a ₹10 price tag, and the day I realised my own time was also a cost.

  🚀 Startups & Ideas5 min read👏 8💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Siddharth RaoDropperSample· 1mo ago

  My best friend got into a government college. I'm still in Kota. This is how I'm handling it.

  Comparison is a very loud voice at 1 am. Here's what I've learned about turning the volume down.

  🌱 Personal Growth5 min read👏 11💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Rahul DubeyDropperSample· 1mo ago

  Shayari vs free verse: an argument I lost twice at a chai stall

  What a couplet can do that a loose poem can't, and the other way round. From someone who writes both in a drop year.

  🪶 Poetry5 min read👏 8💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Ishita GoyalDropperSample· 1mo ago

  The weekly timetable I print every Sunday night (steal it)

  One page, five blocks a day, and three rules that stop it from collapsing by Wednesday.

  🎯 Exams & Study5 min read👏 9💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Vivek Mishra12thSample· 1mo ago

  Scholarships: what I found, what I applied for, and the "scholarship" that wanted money from me

  A simple guide from a student whose family cannot pay lakhs. Dates and rules change every year, so please check the official pages yourself.

  💰 Money5 min read👏 10💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Diya Menon11thSample· 1mo ago

  I turned our kitchen waste into soil on a 4th floor balcony (it smelled for two weeks, sorry neighbours)

  Composting in a flat is easier than it sounds and also grosser than it sounds. Both are true.

  🌍 Environment & Climate5 min read👏 8💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Tushar PawarDropperSample· 1mo ago

  The proof that √2 is irrational is five lines long and it still bothers me

  Proof by contradiction, a legend about a drowned mathematician, and why my code can never store the diagonal of a square.

  🧮 Maths & Logic4 min read👏 8💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Ishita GoyalDropperSample· 1mo ago

  PG hunting in a Laxmi Nagar-style lane: my checklist, the tiffin lottery, and the one mistake I made

  Narrow lanes, one million photocopy shops, and what I wish I had asked before paying a single rupee.

  🎭 Culture & Society5 min read👏 9💬 13🔖 Save

  
• Tanvi Deshmukh12thSample· 1mo ago

  Notes queen confession: most of my pretty notes were useless, and here's what I changed

  Three kinds of notes that survived, and the kinds I stopped making.

  🎓 Education5 min read👏 10💬 11🔖 Save

  
• Farhan ShaikhDropperSample· 1mo ago

  Eating properly in a PG on Rs 120 a day (a practical, slightly boring guide)

  No fancy diet. Just what a NEET repeater with a small budget and one induction stove figured out.

  🧘 Health & Wellness6 min read👏 10💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Siddharth RaoDropperSample· 1mo ago

  My friends moved on to college and I'm still in the same room in Kota

  A big-brother kind of post about birthdays, group chats that get quieter, and what it means to be the one who stays.

  🤝 Friends & Relationships★ Editor's pick5 min read👏 11💬 12🔖 Save

  
• Meera Patel11thSample· 1mo ago

  Five books that made me a reader (none of them are on the lists you're thinking of)

  Small, cheap, slightly crumpled books that taught me to like reading before anyone told me it was good for me.

  📚 Books5 min read👏 9💬 13🔖 Save