2009–2024 · Chennai
one school for all twelve years, then a BSc in maths, picked purely because i liked the subject. where i learned to argue a point and to enjoy a hard problem.
2009–2021 · Abacus Montessori
vice captain, then captain of my house, then cultural secretary of the whole school.
a slow climb up the school ladder: vice captain of my house, then captain, then cultural secretary of the school. mostly that meant running events and wrangling people. somewhere in there i figured out that organising is its own kind of building.
2009–2021 · Abacus Montessori
deep in the debating circuit for all of school.
debating was the one constant through school, and it followed me straight into college. it's where i got comfortable thinking on my feet and making an argument actually land.
2021–2024 · Loyola College
skipped the engineering-or-medicine track and studied maths, because i actually liked it.
the default route was engineering or medicine. i picked maths, out of genuine interest. two years of academic scholarship, consistently near the top of the batch, and missed the gold medal by a single spot. one.
2022–23 · Loyola College
four maths students against ~100 senior engineering teams. we won ~90% of the events.
at the Jet Sigma symposium (St. Joseph's College, circa 2022–23), four of us maths students went up against roughly a hundred engineering teams, all more senior and more experienced, across a mix of events. we came out winning about 90% of them. make that make sense.