About Me

Hi! I’m Syna, the author of this blog.

I’ve grown up shuffling between Delhi and Mumbai, and I’m currently in Bengaluru for college (I’m collecting metropolitan cities like Pokémon). I’m pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Communication Media at Christ University.

Now, Google tells me to state my core values, which feels slightly corporate for someone who still panics over submission portals. However, I value empathy and honesty, and have an unending desire for growth.

This blog was birthed as a class assignment for my course “Report Writing and Editing.” Which means that every single atom of this website is essentially a (hopefully articulate and structured) plea to my professor for marks. BUT —I did enjoy the process of its creation, at least when I wasn’t crying.

Beyond this assignment, the entire course has genuinely pushed my growth, which if you remember I highly value. It mandated me to get out of my comfort zone and interview people. It made me realise how surface-level my everyday interactions used to be. I do not mean with family or friends, but with the shopkeepers at the chai stalls I frequent or the college guard who sees me sprinting to class every morning.

If not for this course, I'm not sure if I would have ever stopped to converse with them. Which would be such a shame because the insight I have gained and the stories I have heard are immeasurable.

I also recognised that the way I used to question the world was shallow. I never really read the news before this. If I ever on the off chance have a newspaper in hand I would flip straight to the comic section. Now I can read an entire paper without zoning out. I find myself immersed, curious, and analysing what I read instead of passively consuming it.

Somewhere between deadlines and drafts, this course did not just teach me how to write reports. It taught me how to pay attention to the world that surrounds me.