1. Colour coordinating your whole, entire wardrobe.
2. Setting up your books in alphabetical order.
3. Removing your wall paint by chipping it off inch by inch.
4. Inspecting your legs for ingrown hair and picking them out.
5. Calculating your and your crush's love percentage.
6. Imagining an alternate universe with you as the hero that saves the world.
7. Creating a vision board to help you top your class.
8. Buying tons of stationery because your cousin's friend's sister failed her boards because her pen ran out of ink.
9. Photo copying every classmate's notes because they're ALL important.
10. Watching the news because there might be a General Knowledge section.
11. Being a good child by helping to make dinner.
12. And cleaning your room.
13. And your parents' room.
14. And the kitchen.
15. And your room again when your mum locks you in.
16. Finding fascinating childhood artifacts while cleaning your room.
17. Oooh my tazo collection!
18. Hey that's my Slam Book from fourth grade!
19. Why was my favourite actor ever Bobby Deol?
20. What was wrong with me?
21. Deep introspection and analysis of what went wrong in your childhood.
22. Imagining how you would have turned out had Bobby Deol not been your favourite actor in the fourth grade.
23. Hearing (imagining) meowing and barking outside your window.
24. Going out to find the source of said animal sounds.
25. Spending 3 hours trying to convince your parents to let you get a cat.
26. Finding a bug on your arm.
27. Trying to identify the species of the bug because biology.
28. And the kind of soil it grows in because geography.
29. Being dragged and locked in your room again despite protests claiming you were practically applying textbook concepts.
30. Grumbling at being a misunderstood genius.
31. Framing your Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
32. "I would NOT like to thank my parents and the Indian education system for trying to strangle my genius with pointless examinations."
33. Putting your ear to the door to listen to the faint strains of Arnab Goswami outside.
34. He's actually quite bearable when you're in another room and listening through a door.
35. Hearing footsteps and scrambling back to your station.
36. Dropping your pen.
37. Picking up your pen.
38. Clicking your pen exactly 93 times.
39. Trying to recreate the beats of your favourite songs via pen-clicking.
40. Throwing your pen up in the air and getting hit on your face with it.
41. Running out to inform everyone that you've been hurt.
42. Fake crying.
43. Dramatically claiming your studies are more important than being blind in one eye so everyone fusses over you.
44. Saying a nap will help it heal.
45. Not feeling sleepy, maybe reading a book will help.
46. Aaah Harry Potter seems like a quick read.
47. Really getting hit on your head with "The Goblet Of Fire" after your mum finds you reading it two hours later.
48. Calling your friend because you have an academic doubt.
49. Passionately debating whether Ranveer is better for Deepika than Ranbir.
50. Followed by an intense discussion on the merits of ankle socks over knee socks.
51. Yelling, "BUT MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL!" at regular intervals so everyone in your house knows you're talking about studies.
52. Having to hang up because your friend is legitimately concerned about not being able to finish their portion.
53. Claiming you're already on your second revision.
54. Worrying about your portion.
55. Not worrying because there are so many days left.
56. Feeling thirsty.
57. Researching how much water a healthy human should drink per day.
58. Looking up how to make 'detox water'.
59. Making 'detox water'.
60. Starting a new diet because you're going to be stuck home forever and you might as well lose weight.
61. Planning balanced meals and delivering a grocery list to your eye-rolling mother.
62. Grabbing a pack of Magic Masala on your way back to the room.
63. Vowing to start your diet FOR REAL on Monday.
64. Getting back to your books.
65. Placing chips at the end of every paragraph to reward yourself with after reading.
66. Continuing to eat chips straight out of the bag.
67. Biting through each chip like a chipmunk.
68 Reading one para to find that the chips are now soggy and not much of a reward.
69. Taking a loo break.
70 Vowing to ace the test while contemplating on the commode.
71. Returning with renewed vigour.
72. Reading your notes out loud in front of the mirror.
73. Reading your notes in a Australian accent, mate!
74. Reading your notes in an American accent, dyuuuude.
75. Reading your notes in a Jamaican accent, maaaahn.
76. Replacing your notes with a hair brush and regaling an imaginary audience with an impassioned speech about Indian rivers and their tributaries.
77. Finding a grey hair in the middle of your head.
78. Twisting your arm in unimaginable ways to pluck it out.
79. Mourning your own lack of flexibility.
80. Googling Baba Ramdev yoga poses to improve your own horrendous flexibility.
81. Realising you're greying because of exam stress.
82. Sitting cross-legged and doing deep breathing to alleviate your stress.
83. Musing the plight of Indian students like you who have been raised and educated in such an unhealthily competitive education system.
84. Making a note to grow up and make reforms.
85. Preparing your election speeches.
86. Texting your best friend about brilliant new ambitions.
87. Announcing to your parents that you're dropping out of school and joining politics.
89. Sneaking into your parents' room to find your confiscated phone.
90. Getting caught on all fours and being directed back to your study space.
91. Counting down days to the end of the exam.
92. Counting down hours till your next exam.
93. Counting down minutes till dinner time.
94. Realising you don't know enough to help you pass your exam, to fulfill your dreams of being an Nobel Prize winning, education reforming, Wembley Stadium performing rockstar.
95. Panicking for 6 hours, give or take another 6.
96. Collecting all your notes and speed reading while imagining the look of immense disappointment when your parents find out that they raised a failure.
97. Blaming the education system again.
98. Considering your cheating options.
99. Imaging further looks of immense disappointment if you get caught.
100. Skipping dinner for more study time.
101. Ignoring your textbooks and reading this BuzzFeed post instead.
