It's the backup college dilemma that hurts the most. I have a deposit deadline next week for my current converter, but my heart is strictly set on Mumbai. If they don't release the list soon, I'm going to lose a serious amount of non-refundable seat-booking money just waiting for them to click upload.

Honestly, the "Control Uday" meme hits way too close to home. My parents ask me every morning if the shortlist is out, and I have to explain to them that a premier national institute is treating their official admission timeline like a casual group project submission deadline.

At this point, "shortly" needs to be officially added to the dictionary as a business term that means "any time between tomorrow and the next financial year." The anxiety of refreshing that portal every two hours while other B-schools are already closing their hostel bookings is completely driving me insane.