Blog 1: Introduction

This is going to be an awkward start. I’m sorry, but despite some blogging experience I have never shared a classroom with someone who comments on my blog, reading it or not. The situation to me is as awkward as a shy seven year old opening the door of his home to his friends on his birthday party. I do not know what to say or do, so I shall do what I am instructed to. My name (if you haven’t figured it out yet) is Kinshuk Mitra. If you kick the “Mitra” out its Kinshuk with the ‘u’ pronounced as the double O in book.  

I am a citizen of India. I am also 17 years old which means I can get away with some stuff others can’t. My major at Ohio State is Computer Engineering and I really hope I don’t get a sudden urge to change that fact. In reading this blog (if you care to do so) I suppose you would not be interested in my past misadventures, crushes or biography. So let me spend my 68 remaining words telling you about my personality. I am a dreamer and an optimist. Hopefully I am not terribly blind to realities as a romantic would be. That would make me a loser. That said, one of the reasons I chose to study in America is because of my conviction in the “American dream”. It’s weird in a sense; while many in America consider that ideal dead I see that it is very much alive, but only if you make a grab for it.

That’s the dreamer in me I guess. As much as I can see America looks beautiful to me. I am honored (India was part of the British Empire, we’re still a bit formal over the mushy stuff) to be your colleague. Just so that my writing style does not misdirect you guys, my regular dress combo is not a button down with trouser but the nearest pair of jeans and tee I can grab from a dark closet at 7 am in the morning.

Cheers!