Edhita Singhal

2 months ago | dailytrojan.com | Edhita Singhal |Stefano Fendrich

Before you wonder about how hectic my workload must be that I am writing about burnout during week three, let me explain myself. According to multiple recent studies done by the American College Health Association, 60-80% of college students face academic burnout, and to avoid this extremely common fate this semester, we should take proactive steps. Throughout college, I’ve experienced multiple burnouts — some that even 12 days of hibernation couldn’t fix.

Dec 4, 2024 | dailytrojan.com | Edhita Singhal |Solange Aguero

While Google may disagree, if I had to define college — and put it rather bluntly — I’d say it’s running behind the next thing: the next class, party or even the next existential crisis. So immersed in this hustle culture and hungry for the next opportunity, we often find it hard to take a beat to appreciate the motions we are going through.

Nov 13, 2024 | dailytrojan.com | Edhita Singhal |Antonio Wu

No one saunters around campus having been burned by none or accumulating zero opps (short for “opposition”). People will hurt you — that’s the simple truth, and you can do absolutely nothing about it. What you can do, though, is decide how you deal with the hurt — cliche, I am well aware, but hear me out. Whenever someone hurts me, my go-to strategy is to avoid them at all costs, even if it means I have to take a very dramatic U-turn to avoid eye contact.

Oct 30, 2024 | dailytrojan.com | Edhita Singhal |Solange Aguero

As the fifth week of classes rolled around and my professors decided they had spent enough time pretending to be nice and then burdened me with work, all I wanted was to feel loved and taken care of by those around me — my friends. Yet, as I started to spiral, I got it into my head that my friends didn’t love me as much, and I wasn’t as special and shiny as I once was.

Oct 2, 2024 | dailytrojan.com | Edhita Singhal |Kate Mcquarrie

For longer than I’d like to admit, my Instagram bio read, “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” My 14-year-old, emo self didn’t copy Lewis Carroll’s quote just to sound smart — albeit that was 90% of the reasoning — but also, this philosophy resonated with me on a deeper level. I said yes to any opportunity that came my way because I was too afraid of the alternative: waking up one morning and realizing that if I had only said yes, my life would have been completely different.