Rahul gives unsolicited advice

I studied at the Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai (Previously Madras). It was a 5 year program on a campus that was lush green. 600 acres, filled with trees, a lake which we weren't allowed to go near for fear of injuring ourselves. And deers. Ohh, and monkeys. Lots and lots of monkeys. Now, in Cambridge, I am reminded of my days at IITM. Not because there are monkeys or deers in Cambridge. Not because of the trees either. There are definitely a lot of trees in Cambridge but it's not the same as IITM. It's because of the people I see around here. It's also because how I was behaving the first couple of days. The first few days here (even now a few times), I was walking about the city center taking pictures of everything, in awe of the beauty, the architecture and overall serenity. And then I noticed others passing next to me, others who might be students in Cambridge, who have gotten used to this city and it's beauty. That's what reminded me ...

I landed in Cambridge, United Kingdom on Wednesday. I was in the car for about a couple of hours from London Heathrow to the office in Cambridge. On the ride here, as I was looking at at the beautiful countryside, I started realising how lucky I am. I call it luck. Some might call it blessed. Others might call it privilege. I'm just going to call it luck. I have been lucky enough to visit a number of places around the world. As I was telling a friend of mine about my impending move, they mentioned how this would be the fourth continent I'd be moving to and I had to stop for a second and take that in. I've traveled around India. I'm not even going to count the trips that me and my family made around the country. After I started college, I got to go to Trivandrum, a beach city in the southern end of the country, to Nainital which sits in the Himalayas in the north. I got the chance to intern in Melbourne, Australia and I got to celebrate New Year's there. I got ...