A semester in America sounds very orderly with their problem sets and exams, but in my IIT, the real test is the one you don't see coming. Our final grade often rests on a single, brutal end-term after weeks of all-nighters in the library. I hear my batchmate, Shankar, talk about his cousin in Boston who has weekly assignments to keep him steady, but here we have only the *ghabrahat* before the big storm. For my father's cab fare, every mark feels like a mountain to climb.
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