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After Lockdown Experience

would be having offline classes. I couldn’t

explain my enthusiasm and curiosity. Having

heard a lot about the University campus and

stories about university life, I was excited to

start mine. On the reopening day, entering the
campus felt like living my dreams, to see the

cartooned and captioned DPs in person. To

bump into each other and talk like long time
Keerthana A P
2021 - 25, Civil friends was an out of the world feeling.

I’ve never seen such a large campus and to
Having spent almost 2 years in lockdown,
roam around with friends from various states
being cooped up inside the same house, with
made me realize all the stories I heard from my
the fear of being affected by covid, many
seniors were true. It has been only 4 months
students have experienced frustration getting
now and I’m loving it to the fullest and I hope
on their veins. I, like all my friends, spent my
I feel the same for the next three and a half
whole 12th standard in lockdown. I started
years.
longing to step out of the house and see my

friends. Earlier, I used to long for holidays, to
stay at home and enjoy. The pandemic made

me realize that just staying at home could lead

to various health issues and mental stress.

At last, the good news came in that I have

got admission in Puducherry Technological

University. With that excitement, came the
damper that we would be having online

classes. Trying to soak in the disappointment,

we turned to online mode once more. I became
acquainted with my classmates and college

mates through online chatting.

Three months went by, online classes were

going on and then it was declared that we

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