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A story of an Engineering student in India during the COVID pandemic

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Hello, and welcome to the open minded podcast. Hope you all are having a great day. And welcome to another episode of the busy lynnie series, an episode where I talk about random news and other stuff. So today I'm going to talk about COVID. And, and how it affected me being a college student. So let's go all the way back to December of 2019. When COVID was supposedly shown up in the state of Ohio and China, to be honest, it really didn't matter to me, it didn't affect me, heck, I didn't even know about its existence until of course after January of 2020 when the virus was seeping into India little by little still, it didn't actually affect me I think it was first discovered in Delhi if I'm not wrong way far from the place I live in. So my life for so far the same getting up now taking the college bus going to college at 8am going back home at 4am you know all the normal stuff. But that's when COVID started to come more and more inside India. And at march of third if I'm not wrong, India was put inside a nationwide lockdown. Now, to be honest, even though it is you know, COVID is horrific, killing people 1000s of people every single day and ICT has killed millions of people as of now within two years. At that moment, I was you know, happy because not because of fact of COVID because of the fact that I didn't have to go to college anymore. I was happy that I could stay in my house. Now for a lot of people they found it really they were really pissed and annoyed that they had to live inside their house. But personally, I as in being an introvert I prefer being inside my house inside my room playing games and watching YouTube and stuff like that. So I welcome this new type of lifestyle. I was happy for almost July, March, April, May, June, July, I was like happy enjoying living my life playing games and stuff, wasting tons of time watching YouTube and other stuff. But after a July, no, after like three or four months of me enjoying I've started to really hate being inside my house for some reason. I couldn't believe as an introvert as as a person who enjoys being inside their house. What is going on? Why? Like, I didn't find anything exciting anymore. Like, I Oh, okay, there are kings. I mean, I could play a few games or other su too. I can watch a few videos. But aside from that life was pretty boring, right is just one day would pass without you even knowing. And that's why I started this podcast. Like I wanted to do something I thought like okay, I have been staying inside my house for so long. I have not spoken English, right, English is not my main language. So having spoken it for a long time, I have lost touch now what can I do to improve my grammar and my English, obviously, one of the ways is to talk more English. And that's why I had the start of podcast because I started to listen to some podcasts here and there. And I thought it was a great idea to start my own podcasts to improve my grammar and English communication skills as well. So that's when this all started, by the way, I was in my second semester of my first year when this you know, in 2020 at July, so the best thing was my second semester, the my college that I am studying in literally pass, right I passed second semester without writing a semester and exam. I was really happy for them. They just passed me by taking my internal mocks, right? internal mocks and considering that and they gave me a CGPA like eight out of 10, which is pretty pretty good too, in my opinion. So currently now I'm in my third semester, which is the beginning of my second year. Actually, it's my end of my third semester, but my third Semester Exams are currently going on right now. And that's pretty much what I'm going to talk